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Non-Timber Forest Products in the Global Context

  • Presents a global view of the multiple roles of NTFPs and a balanced and realistic perspective on the benefits and challenges associated with NTFP use and management.

  • Provides an up-to-date, critical analysis of the debates and discourses surrounding NTFPs.

  • Includes solid case study material and includes a series of integrated case studies that serve to illustrate many of the issues highlighted in the discussion chapters.

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Tropical Forestry (TROPICAL)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Introduction: Non-timber Forest Products in the Global Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. INTRODUCTION - NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT

    1. Non-timber Forest Products: Concept and Definitions

      • Charlie Shackleton, Claudio O. Delang, Sheona Shackleton, Patricia Shanley
      Pages 3-21
    2. Evolving Perspectives on Non-timber Forest Products

      • Erin Sills, Patricia Shanley, Fiona Paumgarten, Jenne de Beer, Alan Pierce
      Pages 23-51
  4. Multiple Roles and Values of Non-timber Forest Products

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
  5. Systems for Sustainable Management of Non-timber Forest Products

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
  6. SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS

    1. Timber and Non-timber Forest Product Extraction and Management in the Tropics: Towards Compatibility?

      • Manuel R. Guariguata, Carmen García-Fernández, Robert Nasi, Douglas Sheil, Cristina Herrero-Jáuregui, Peter Cronkleton et al.
      Pages 171-188
    2. Non-timber Forest Products and Conservation: What Prospects?

      • Terry C. H. Sunderland, Ousseynou Ndoye, Susan Harrison-Sanchez
      Pages 209-224
  7. Building on the Opportunities Offered by Non-timber Forest Products

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
  8. BUILDING ON THE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS

    1. Regulating Complexity: Policies for the Governance of Non-timber Forest Products

      • Sarah A. Laird, Rachel Wynberg, Rebecca J. McLain
      Pages 227-253
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 281-285

About this book

This book provides a comprehensive, global synthesis of current knowledge on the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and marketing of non-timber forest products (NTFPs).  There has been considerable research and policy effort surrounding NTFPs over the last two and half decades. The book explores the evolution of sentiments regarding the potential of NTFPs in promoting options for sustainable multi-purpose forest management, income generation and poverty alleviation. Based on a critical analysis of the debates and discourses it employs a systematic approach to present a balanced and realistic perspective on the benefits and challenges associated with NTFP use and management within local livelihoods and landscapes, supported with case examples from both the southern and northern hemispheres. This book covers the social, economic and ecological dimensions of NTFPs and closes with an examination of future prospects and research directions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Environmental Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

    Sheona Shackleton, Charlie Shackleton

  • Forestry Research (CIFOR), Center for International, Bogor, Indonesia

    Patricia Shanley

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Non-Timber Forest Products in the Global Context

  • Editors: Sheona Shackleton, Charlie Shackleton, Patricia Shanley

  • Series Title: Tropical Forestry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17983-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-17982-2Published: 26 March 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26755-0Published: 21 April 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-17983-9Published: 28 March 2011

  • Series ISSN: 1614-9785

  • Series E-ISSN: 2627-1516

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 286

  • Topics: Forestry Management, Plant Physiology, Environmental Economics

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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