Mini Bar: Whiskey: A Little Book of Big Drinks
Author: Chronicl
The Mini Bar series maybe small in size, but each tiny tome is filled with classic and original recipes that pack quite a wallop! Whiskey lovers will find everything from the Perfect Manhattan to the Traditional Southern-Style Mint Julep. Each volume in this new series tells the history of its particular alcohol, as well as its distinct traits and characteristics. A glossary of essential bar tools and cocktail terminology will ensure readers not only walk the walk of an expert mixologist, but also talk the talk. With more than 50 delicious recipes, this little cocktail book makes a spirited stocking stuffer or great gift.
New interesting textbook: Gesetz und Geschäft der Unterhaltungsindustrien: Die Fünfte Ausgabe
Applied Ethnobotany: People, Wild Plant Use and Conservation
Author: Anthony Cunningham
Wild or non-cultivated plants are crucial to the lives of a large portion of the world's population, providing low-cost building materials, fuel, food supplements, medicines, tools and sources of income. Despite their importance, their vulnerability to harvesting and other social impacts is not well understood. This is the first practical guide to be published on how to manage wild plant species sustainably.
This practical manual on the value and management of wild plant resources sets out the approaches and field methods involved in participatory work between conservationists and researchers and the primary resource users. Supported by extensive illustrations, it explains how local people can learn to assess the pressures on plant resources and what steps to take to ensure their continued availability.
This guide will be invaluable for all those involved in resource management decisions regarding plant species and diversity, in particular those studying or working in conservation, rural development and park management. Published in association with WWF International and UNESCO
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
One of the book's most important strengths is the excellent didactical presentation of the material.. the numerous maps and other figures provide excellent visual material. The book can be highly recommended to anyone interested in the conservation and sustainable use of tropical landscapes and is particularly useful in the context of biological approaches.
Medicinal Plant Conservation
Supported by 97 excellent illustrations, 16 tables and 22 text boxes, it explains how local people can learn to assess the pressures on plant resources and what steps to take to ensure their continued availability. This guide is invaluable for all those involved in resource management decisions regarding plants and diversity, and in particular those studying or working in conservation, rural development and park management.
TEGNews
The numerous diagrams, tables of data, information flow charts, fieldwork sketches etc. give a great vibrancy to the work. It deserves a wide readership.
Plant Talk
excellent contribution to the science and practice of ethnobotany.. this new book fills a large and important gap by deliberately focusing on tools that will help researchers work within communities and resource managers to understand conservation priorities.
British Ecological Society Bulletin
as well as acting as a manual, this book contains a great deal of information that will be of interest to anyone working with plants in the tropics..this volume contains a great deal of factual and practical information. This alone will be of great interest to plant ecologists, especially those working in the tropics. The socio-economic context into which this material is placed is an important aim of the book and one that anyone wishing to understand the complexities of sustainable management should appreciate. The author is to be congratulated on producing an informative and readable volume. Good value for money for those working on plants in tropical countries.
Bois & Forets des tropiques
(This is the first practical guide to be published on how to manage wild plant species sustainably. This detailed manual on wild plant resources sets out the approaches and field methods involved in participatory work between conservationists, researchers and the primary resource users. Supported by extensive illustrations..For all those involved in resource management decisions regarding plant species and diversity, and in particular those studying or working in conservation, rural development and park management, this guide is invaluable.
Table of Contents:
| List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | ||
| The People and Plants Initiative | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| People and Plants partners | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Conservation and context: different times, different views | 1 |
| Historical context | 3 | |
| Management myths and effective partnerships | 5 | |
| Vegetation and change: spatial and time scales | 7 | |
| Human influence: landscapes and species | 8 | |
| 2 | Local inventories, values and quantities of harvested resources | 10 |
| Local priorities: vegetation types, resource categories and species | 10 | |
| Choosing the right methods | 12 | |
| Before starting: attitudes, time spans and cross-checking | 15 | |
| Taxonomy with all your senses: the use of field characters | 32 | |
| Potentials and pitfalls: combining skills in inventories | 44 | |
| Local to international units | 51 | |
| 3 | Settlement, commercialization and change | 60 |
| Local markets: order within 'chaos' | 63 | |
| Location and mapping of marketplaces | 64 | |
| Characteristics of markets | 73 | |
| Market schedules | 78 | |
| Marketing chains and types of seller | 82 | |
| Inventory and frequency of plants on sale | 87 | |
| 4 | Measuring individual plants and assessing harvesting impacts | 96 |
| Necessary equipment | 97 | |
| Measuring diameter, height and bark thickness | 97 | |
| Methods for ageing plants | 115 | |
| Harvesting impacts | 126 | |
| 5 | Opportunities and constraints on sustainable harvest: plant populations | 144 |
| Plant populations and practical constraints: selecting species | 145 | |
| Bridging gaps in knowledge: life forms, plant architecture and reproductive strategies | 150 | |
| Plant life forms | 150 | |
| Costs and complexity: inventory, management and monitoring | 156 | |
| Yields: supply versus demand | 180 | |
| Population modelling using transition matrices | 184 | |
| 6 | Landscapes and ecosystems: patterns, processes and plant use | 192 |
| Tools for the 'big picture': aerial photographs and satellite images | 196 | |
| Distribution, degree of threat and disturbance | 202 | |
| Local knowledge, landscapes and mapping | 212 | |
| 7 | Conservation behaviour, boundaries and beliefs | 222 |
| Conservation and the ingredients for common property management | 223 | |
| Ecological factors, land use, tenure and territoriality | 233 | |
| Property rights: land and resource tenure | 238 | |
| Boundaries and tenure, meaning and mapping | 245 | |
| Ritual, religion and resource control | 253 | |
| Who are the stakeholders? | 259 | |
| 8 | Striving for balance: looking outward and inward | 264 |
| Looking outward | 267 | |
| Looking inward; examining innovative local approaches | 269 | |
| Acronyms and abbreviations | 272 | |
| Further reading | 274 | |
| References | 278 | |
| Index | 295 |
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