{"product_id":"conservation-of-medicinal-plants-paperback-9780521112024","title":"Conservation of Medicinal Plants (Paperback) 9780521112024","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eConservation of Medicinal Plants\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA detailed discussion of the need to conserve medicinal plants and their environments.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOlayiwola Akerele (Edited by), Vernon Heywood (Edited by), Hugh Synge (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521112024, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 11 June 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNearly all cultures, from ancient times to today, have used plants as a source of medicine. In many developing countries, traditional medicine is still the mainstay of health care and most of the drugs and cures used come from plants. In developed countries many people are turning to herbal remedies. With this widespread use has come the assumption that plants identified as having medicinal qualities will be available on a continuing basis. However no concerted effort has been made to ensure this and in the face of the threats of increasing demand, a vastly increasing human population and extensive forest destruction, there can be no guarantee that we will continue to benefit indefinitely from this valuable resource. In light of this situation the World Health Organisation held a meeting in 1988. This book is the outcome of that meeting, detailing in a series of papers by leading experts the problems of which need to be addressed, the existing experiences from a range of countries and the future direction which must be taken to ensure the conservation of the world's medicinal plants.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e The Chiang Mai Declaration\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Introduction: 1. Medicinal plants: policies and priorities O. Akerele\u003cbr\u003e 2. The joint IUCN-WWF plants conservation programme and its interest in medicinal plants O. Hamann\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Issue of Medicinal Plants: 3. Global importance of medicinal plants N. R. Farnsworth and D. D. Soejarto\u003cbr\u003e 4. Traditional knowledge of medicinal plants - the search for new jungle medicines M. J. Plotkin\u003cbr\u003e 5. The reason for ethnobotanical conservation R. E. Schultes\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Science, Industry and Medicinal Plants: 6. Valuing the biodiversity of medicinal plants P. P. Principe\u003cbr\u003e 7. Economic aspects of exploitation of medicinal plants A. Husain\u003cbr\u003e 8. Industry and the conservation of medicinal plants A. Bonati\u003cbr\u003e 9. Information systems and databases for the conservation of medicinal plants H. Synge and V. Heywood\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Techniques to Conserve Medicinal Plants: 10. Agronomy applied to medicinal plant conservation D. Palevitch\u003cbr\u003e 11. Biotechnology in the production and conservation of medicinal plants H. M. Schumacher\u003cbr\u003e 12. Enhancing the role of protected areas in conserving medicinal plants J. A. McNeely and J. W. Thorsell\u003cbr\u003e 13. Botanic gardens and the conservation of medicinal plants V. Heywood\u003cbr\u003e 14. The role of Chinese botanical gardens in conservation of medicinal plants He Shan-an and Cheng Zhong-ming\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Policies to Conserve Medicinal Plants: 15. Policies and organisation for medicinal plant conservation in Sri Lanka W. J. M. Lokubandara\u003cbr\u003e 16. Experience in the conservation of medicinal plants in Sri Lanka L. de Alwis\u003cbr\u003e 17. The conservation of medicinal plants used in primary health care in Thailand Pricha Desawadi\u003cbr\u003e 18. Medicinal plants and the law C. de Klemm\u003cbr\u003e 19. Let's stop talking to ourselves: the need for public awareness P. S. Wachtel\u003cbr\u003e 20. Germplasm, genetic erosion and the conservation of Indonesian medicinal plants M. A. Rifai and K. Kartawinata\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Experiences from Programmes to Conserve Medicinal Plants: 21. Medicinal plants in India: approaches to exploitation and conservation S. K. Alok\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Chinese approach to medicinal plants - their utilisation and conservation Xiao Pei-gen\u003cbr\u003e 23. Conservation of medicinal plants in Kenya J. O. Kokwaro\u003cbr\u003e 24. Complexity and conservation of medicinal plants: anthropological cases from Peru and Indonesia C. Padoch, T. C. Jessup, H. Soedjito and K. Kartawinata\u003cbr\u003e 25. Utilisation of indigenous medicinal plants and their conservation in Bangladesh A. S. Islam\u003cbr\u003e 26. Development of a conservation policy on commercially exploited medicinal plants: a case study from Southern Africa A. B. Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e 27. Proposals for international collaboration O. 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