Community Biodiversity Management - Promoting Resilience and the Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources

Informationen zum Autor Walter Simon de Boef is Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, and Associate Consultant at the Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) of Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR), the Netherlands. Abishkar Subedi worked at Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), Nepal, until 2012 when he assumed the role of Agrobiodiversity and Seed Sector Development Specialist at the Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) of Wageningen UR, the Netherlands. Nivaldo Peroni is Professor at UFSC, Brazil. Marja Thijssen is Agrobiodiversity and Seed Sector Development Specialist at the Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) of Wageningen UR, the Netherlands. Elizabeth O’Keeffe is a freelance copy-editor based in Brazil. Klappentext The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the environments where this diversity originated or is being used, are issues which are high on the policy agenda. This book is the first to set out a clear overview of community biodiversity management (CBM) as an approach to meet social, economic and environmental change. Zusammenfassung The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the environments where this diversity originated or is being used, are issues which are high on the policy agenda. This book is the first to set out a clear overview of community biodiversity management (CBM) as an approach to meet social, economic and environmental change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Prof M.S. Swaminathan Section 1: Community Biodiversity Management and In Situ Conservation Section 2: Practices contributing to Community Biodiversity Management Section 3: People, Biodiversity and Landscapes Section 4: Agrobiodiversity, Livelihoods and Markets Section 5: Participatory Crop Improvement in a Context of Community Biodiversity Management Section 6: Community Biodiversity Management, Genetic Resource Policies and Rights Section 7: Community Biodiversity Management and Resilience ...

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• Authors: Walter Simon (Bioversity International De Boef, Walter Simon (EDT)/ Subedi De Boef, Walter Simon Subedi De Boef, DE BOEF WALTER SIMON SUBEDI ABIS
• Assisted by: Walter Simon de Boef (Editor), Elizabeth O'Keeffe (Editor), O'Keeffe Elizabeth (Editor), Nivaldo Peroni (Editor), Peroni Nivaldo (Editor), Abishkar Subedi (Editor), Subedi Abishkar (Editor), Marja Thijssen (Editor), Marja Helen Thijssen (Editor), Thijssen Marja (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2013
• EAN: 9780415502191
• ISBN: 978-0-415-50219-1
• No. of pages: 452
• Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity; Issues in Agricultural Biodive; Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity; Issues in Agricultural Biodive
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, Conservation of the environment, Ecological science, the Biosphere