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World Series Vol. 21 – Sustainable Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation: Roles of Traditional Forest-related Knowledge

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Editors

John Parrotta; Jinlong Liu; Sim Heok-Choh

Publisher

International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)

Publication Year

2008

Source

IUFRO Headquarters

ISSN

1016-3263

ISBN

978-3-901347-67-2

Citation

John A. Parrotta, Liu Jinlong, Sim Heok-Choh (editors). Vienna, IUFRO, 2008 – 223 p. Extended Abstracts from the conference held in Kunming, China, 17-20 December 2007, jointly organized by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge, the Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), and the Asia-Pacific Association of Forestry Research Institutions (APAFRI).

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IUFRO World Series 21 presents the extended abstracts from the international conference "Sustainable Forest Management and Poverty Alleviation: Roles of Traditional Forest-related Knowledge", convened in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, 17-20 December 2007 by the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge. Traditional forest-related knowledge (TFRK) has long been known to have important implications for forest management and conservation of forest biodiversity, as well as identification of valuable genetic resources.  The actual and potential importance of forest science to helping protect and realize the full potential of TFRK was given considerable attention during the conference.

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