Valuing Local Knowledge
Subtitle: Indigenous People And Intellectual Property Rights
Contributors: Gordon Cragg (Contributor); Edgar Asebey (Contributor); Stephen B. Brush (Editor); Doreen Stabinsky (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: January 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781559633789
Subjects: Applied ecology; Biogeography; Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques; Plant ecology; Forests and forestry; Environmental Policy; Law Of Intellectual Property; Tropics; Sociology; Sociology - General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Social Science / General; Forest conservation; Forest ecology; Forest management
First sentence: Among peasant farmers and tribal inhabitants of the tropical forest are men and women who are versed in the diversity and uses of local plant life.