Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Published: March 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781853836985
Subjects: Applied ecology; Management of land & natural resources; Science/Mathematics; Germplasm resources; Biological Variation; Nature; Business / Economics / Finance; Plants - General; Life Sciences - Botany; Development - Sustainable Development; Environmental Science; Wildlife; Social Science / Anthropology / Physical; Biological diversity; Life Sciences - Ecology; Biodiversity
First sentence: Biodiversity research is frequently positioned at the interface of multiple junctures, such as science and the private sector; biodiversity rich but technologically poor and biodiversity poor but technologically rich nations and regions; the urban and rural; and between the economically and politically powerful and the disenfranchised (Cunningham, 1996; Dove, 1996; Macilwain, 1998; ten Kate and Laird, 1999).