Overview
- Relates numerous personal narratives from around the world
- Provides a human face to poverty alleviation case studies
- Provides global examples of how natural products can lift people out of poverty
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Introduction
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Personal Stories
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Charlie Shackleton currently occupies a fulltime research chair in Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods with the department. This is a nationally funded Chair whose objective is to develop interdisciplinary understandings of and methods to reveal the role, value and importance of natural resources in rural and urban livelihoods for poverty alleviation. Charlie's research interests centre of the links between landscapes, biological resources and peoples’ uses thereof. Trained as a plant ecologist, with a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), he soon broadened his perspective to include social and resource valuation perspectives on how biological resources are used or abused, and how in turn resource supply enhances or constrains local livelihoods options and peoples’ wellbeing. Charlie has extensive field research experience in interdisciplinary projects in rural areas of South Africa, and over the past few years has begun to apply these models and lessons to urban systems as well, which is underpinning his growing interest in urban forestry. He continues work on the ecology of individual plant species, typically those used by local people, including fuelwood, wild fruits, weaving fibres and vegetable species, and includes both indigenous and alien species. Charlie has supervised or co-supervised 8 PhD and 34 Masters students. He has over 160 peer-reviewed journal papers to his name, six books and 31 book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Poverty Reduction Through Non-Timber Forest Products
Book Subtitle: Personal Stories
Editors: Deepa Pullanikkatil, Charlie M. Shackleton
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75580-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75579-3Published: 05 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75580-9Published: 23 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 160
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 92 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Environmental Science and Engineering