Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products
- ISBN-10
- 1559631694
- ISBN-13
- 9781559631693
- Category
- Business & Economics / General
- Pages
- 364
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-07
- Publisher
- Island Press
- Authors
- Mark Plotkin, Lisa Famolare
Description
Covers the conservation of ethnobotanical information, the potential for nontimber forest products, plants as medicines, and international markets
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