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Title: Sustainable Harvest and marketing of rain forest products

Book ·
OSTI ID:6500066

The economics of nontimber rainforest products often make a strong case for forest protection and prevention of deforestation. This book contains 33 diverse papers falling into three catagories: tropical rainforests are underutilized sources of new plant products; increased use of tropical forest products should benefit human inhabitants of the rainforest; nontimber forest products many not be the panacea that some suggest.

OSTI ID:
6500066
Resource Relation:
Other Information: From review by Bradley C. Bennett, Florida International Univ., in BioScience, Vol. 43, No. 6 (June 1993)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English