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Hunting for sustainability in tropical forests

Author: John G Robinson; Elizabeth L Bennett
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000.
Series: Biology and resource management in the tropics series.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Examines the sustainability of hunting as practiced by rural peoples. This book provides a viewpoint on the ecological and human aspects of this hunting. It examines the effects of hunting on  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: John G Robinson; Elizabeth L Bennett
ISBN: 0231109768 9780231109765 0231109776 9780231109772
OCLC Number: 40979839
Description: xxi, 582 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Contents: Hunting for the snark / Elizabeth L. Bennett and John G. Robinson --
pt. I: Carrying capacity limits to sustainable hunting in tropical forests / John G. Robinson and Elizabeth L. Bennett ; Evaluating the impact and sustainability of subsistence hunting at multiple Amazonian forest sites / Carlos A. Peres ; The sustainability of current hunting practices by the Huaorani / Patricio Mena V. ... [et al.] ; Sustainability of Aché hunting in the Mbaracayu Reserve, Paraguay / Kim Hill and Jonathan Padwe ; Impact and sustainability of indigenous hunting in the Ituri Forest, Congo-Zaire : a comparison of unhunted and hunted duiker populations / John A. Hart ; Threatened mammals, subsistence harvesting, and high human population densities : a recipe for disaster? / Clare D. Fitzgibbon, Hezron Mogaka, and John H. Fanshawe ; Hunted animals in Bioko Island, West Africa : sustainability and future / John E. Fa ; Differential vulnerability of large birds and mammals to hunting in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the outlook for the future / Timothy G. O'Brien and Margaret F. Kinnaird ; The impact of traditional subsistence hunting and trapping on prey populations : data from Wana horticulturalists of Upland Central Sulawesi, Indonesia / Michael Alvard --
pt. II: Sociocultural context influencing sustainability. A pound of flesh : social change and modernization as factors in hunting sustainability among neotropical indigenous societies / Allyn Maclean Stearman ; Wildlife conservation and game harvest by Maya hunters in Quintana Roo, Mexico / Jeffrey P. Jorgenson ; The sustainability of subsistence hunting by the Sirionó Indians of Bolivia / Wendy R. Townsend ; Cable snares and nets in the Central African republic / Andrew Noss ; Saving Borneo's bacon : the sustainability of hunting in Sarawak and Sabah / Elizabeth L. Bennett, Adrian J. Nyaoi, and Jephte Sompud ; Agta hunting and sustainability of resource use in Northeastern Luzon, Philippines / P. Bion Griffin and Marcus B. Griffin --
pt. III: Institutional capacity for management. Hunting for an answer : is local hunting compatible with large mammal conservation in India? / M.D. Madhusudan and K. Ullas Karanth ; Enhancing the sustainability of duiker hunting through community participation and controlled access in the Lobéké region of Southeastern Cameroon / Cheryl Fimbel, Bryan Curran, and Leonard Usongo ; Traditional management of hunting in a Xavante community in Central Brazil : the search for sustainability / Frans J. Leeuwenberg and John G. Robinson ; Community-based comanagement of wildlife in the Peruvian Amazon / Richard Bodmer and Pablo E. Puertas --
pt. IV: Economic influences on sustainability. Wildlife use in Northern Congo : hunting in a commercial logging concession / Philippe Auzel and David S. Wilkie ; Socioeconomics and the sustainability of hunting in the forests of Northern Congo (Brazzaville) / Heather E. Eves and Richard G. Ruggiero ; Impact of subsistence hunting in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and conservation options / Rob J. Lee ; The trade in wildlife in North Sulawesi, Indonesia / Lynn Clayton and E.J. Milner-Gulland --
pt. V: Synthesis. Hunting for sustainability : the start of a synthesis / Elizabeth L. Bennett and John G. Robinson --
Appendix : Calculating maximum sustainable harvests and percentage offtakes / John G. Robinson.
Series Title: Biology and resource management in the tropics series.
Responsibility: John G. Robinson and Elizabeth L. Bennett, editors.

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A timely and important book, as anyone knows who has travelled to the tropics. Northeastern Naturalist For those interested in 'sustainable use' as something more than a conservation catchphrase, Read more...

 
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