Plant Conservation

In this, the latest in the People and Plants series, plant conservation is described in the context of development and livelihoods, including ways of balancing the conservation of plant diversity with the productive use of plants and the land. A central contention in this book is that local people must be involved if conservation is to be successful. Also examined are ways of prioritizing plants and places for conservation initiatives, approaches to in situ and ex situ conservation, and how to approach problems of unsustainable harvesting of wild plants. Roles for botanists, foresters, sociologists, development workers and others are discussed. This book acts as a unifying text for the People and Plants series, integrating case studies and methodologies described in earlier volumes and pointing out, in a comprehensive accessible volume, the valuable lessons that have been learned. Book jacket.

Alan Hamiston is Manager of the Plant Conservation and Livelihoods Programme at Plantlife International Patrick Hamilton is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter