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Advances in Economic Botany, Volume 12: Medicinal Plants: Can Utilization and Conservation Coexist?

Advances in Economic Botany, Volume 12: Medicinal Plants: Can Utilization and Conservation Coexist?

Michael J. Balick
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People have long relied on plants for their medicinal value. Demand, however, often leads to the degradation of these valuable resources. This study examines several medicinal plant species, their value to traditional and contemporary medicine, and the impact that overharvesting of these plants has on natural and human forest communities. It explores the discovery and use of medicinal plants by the herbal and pharmaceutical industries and the impact of such use on forest communities. The authors offer productive alternatives to overharvesting of wild populations, such as the Belize Ethnobotany Project. The study concludes with how traditional, herbal, and pharmaceutical industries that rely on medicinal plants must coexist and avoid the destruction of the rain forest and its communities.
Pages
104
Format
Paperback
Release
July 30, 1997
ISBN 13
9780893274061

Advances in Economic Botany, Volume 12: Medicinal Plants: Can Utilization and Conservation Coexist?

Michael J. Balick
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
People have long relied on plants for their medicinal value. Demand, however, often leads to the degradation of these valuable resources. This study examines several medicinal plant species, their value to traditional and contemporary medicine, and the impact that overharvesting of these plants has on natural and human forest communities. It explores the discovery and use of medicinal plants by the herbal and pharmaceutical industries and the impact of such use on forest communities. The authors offer productive alternatives to overharvesting of wild populations, such as the Belize Ethnobotany Project. The study concludes with how traditional, herbal, and pharmaceutical industries that rely on medicinal plants must coexist and avoid the destruction of the rain forest and its communities.
Pages
104
Format
Paperback
Release
July 30, 1997
ISBN 13
9780893274061

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