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bailey@butyng.bu.edu (Sherry Bailey) writes:
>So, Kay -- what IS "economic botany"???

_Economic Botany_
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Vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 215-344, July-September, 1993:
Workshop: Economic Valuation and Sustainable Management of Non-Timber
  Tropical Forest Products:
The Economic Value and Sustainable Harvest of Plants and Animals from the
  Tropical Forest: Assumptions, Hypothesis, and Methods. p. 215
A Method for the Economic Valuation of Non-timber Tropical Forest Products
Methods to Assess the Impact of Extraction of Non-timber Tropical Forest
  Products on Plant Populations. p. 234
Introduction to Case Studies from South Asia. p. 248
The Value of Non-timber Forest Products: An Estimation for Tropical Deciduous
  Forest in India. p. 258
Extraction of Non-timber Forest Products, Including Fodder and Fuelwood, in
  Mudumalai, India. p. 268
Role of Non-timber Forest Products in the Economy of Peripheral Communities
  of Knuckles National Wilderness Area of Sri Lanka: A Farming Systems
  Approach. p. 275
Interdisciplinary Research Towards Management of Non-timber Forest Resources
  in Lowland Rain Forests of Sri Lanka. p. 282
Acknowledgements. p. 290
Traditional Uses of Curcuma longa (Zingiberaceae) in Rotuma. p. 291
The North Wakashan "Wild Carrots"; Clarification of some Ethnobotanical
  Ambiguity in Pacific Northwest Apiaceae. p. 297
Adaption of Five Columnar Cactus Species to Various Conditions in the Negev
  Desert of Israel. p. 304
Agave Studies in Yucatan, Mexico. I. Past and Present Germplasm Diversity and
  Uses. p. 312  II. Nutritional Value of the Inflorescence Peduncle and
  Incipient Domestication. p. 328
Howard Scott Gentry. p. 335
Book Reviews. p. 311, 337, 338
Manuscript Requirements. p. 343


