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  • Ethnobotanic Resources of Tropical Montane Forests: Indigenous Uses of Plants in the Cameroon Highland Ecoregion
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  • Neba Ndenecho
  • 2010
  • Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
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Mountain forests provide important ecological services, and essential products. This book focuses on the importance of mountain forests in Cameroon for the local people who depend most directly on them, and have often developed a wealth of indigenous knowledge on plants and sophisticated institutions for managing limited plant and animal resources. Such knowledge and institutions have often been threatened, or even destroyed, by centralization and globalization; yet there is increasing recognition that community-based institutions are the best adapted to ensuring that mountain forests continue to supply their diverse goods and services to both mountain and other people over the long-term. The book provides a useful combination of case studies on ethnobotanic analysis and cultural values of plants, community-based ecological planning for protected area management and eco-cultural tourism development. It provides an unusually useful combination of overviews and synthesis of theory and experience with in-depth case studies of montane forest-adjacent communities and protected areas. Throughout the book there are good summary tables, case study maps, and diagrams that are relevant to the themes in question. Finally, the book addresses the possible mutual benefits of indigenous knowledge and modern science, indigenous peoples and the development of eco-cultural tourism in protected areas, indigenous peoples and ecological planning in protected areas. It therefore emphasizes cooperation based on partnerships amongst indigenous people, governments and the global conservation community, in the interest of effective conservation. This is a valuable book for land managers, environmental scientists, environmental biologists, natural resource managers and students reading subjects such as geography, biology, forestry, botany and environmental science.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright Page
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  1. Epigraph
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Chapter 1 - Mountain Values and Endogenous Knowledge: Challenge for Research and Development
  2. pp. 1-26
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  1. Chapter 2 - Ethnobotanic Resources of Kilum - Ejim Mountain Forest
  2. pp. 27-46
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  1. Chapter 3 - Herbalism and Resources for the Development of Ethnopharmacology in Bamenda Highlands
  2. pp. 47-62
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  1. Chapter 4 - Herbalism and Resources for the Development of Ethnopharmacology in Mount Cameroon Region
  2. pp. 63-92
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  1. Chapter 5 - Indigenous Trees and Shrubs in Silvopastoral Systems of Bamenda Highlands
  2. pp. 93-108
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  1. Chapter 6 - Plant Resources for the Development of Ethnoveterinary Medicine in Adamaoua – Bamenda – Bamileke Plateaux
  2. pp. 109-130
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  1. Chapter 7 - Ethnobotanical Study of Takamanda Forest Area
  2. pp. 131-150
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  1. Chapter 8 - Plant Resources for the Development of Traditional Handicrafts in Bamenda Highlands
  2. pp. 151-176
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  1. Chapter 9 - Woody Plants In Indigenous Land Use Systems of the Mandara - Diamare
  2. pp. 177-198
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  1. Chapter 10 - Indigenous Trees and Shrubs in Home Gardens of Bamileke Plateau
  2. pp. 199-222
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  1. Chapter 11 - Development Paths for Indigenous Plants
  2. pp. 223-232
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  1. Back Cover
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