ISSC-MAP Expert Workshop
“Assessing the Sustainable Yield in Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Collection”
Isle of Vilm, 14 - 17 September 2006
Lectures - click on titles to open pdf-versions in a new frame.
Dagmar Lange
What makes medicinal and aromatic plants special?
Inventory and monitoring methods as information base for resource assessment
Jennifer Wong
Resource assessment methods for MAPs: Designing sound inventories
Christoph Kleinn
Forest inventories: Principles, experiences and lessons for NWFP inventories
Indigineous knowledge as information base for resource assessment
Anna Lawrence
Participatory science: Community experiments as a reliable information base for sustainable harvesting
Giridhar Kinhal
Participatory resource estimation of medicinal plants: A case study from India
When do we consider an impact of harvest detrimental for the population?
Tamara Ticktin
Ecological implications of collecting MAPs on population, community and ecosystem level
Ulrich Sukopp
How much impact on plant populations is tolerable? - An approach to determine thresholds for significant detrimental impacts
Horst Tremp
Balancing statistical reliability and cost efficiency in resource assessment
Case studies and cross-cutting issues
Marianne Strohbach
Resource assessment methods for sustainable collection of Devil’s Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens) in Namibia
David Newton
A preliminary assessment of the harvest impact on Pelargonium sidoides in South Africa and Lesotho
Jim Chamberlain
Sustainable harvest of Actaea racemosa (Syn.: Cimicifuga racemosa) from Appalachian forests
Maximilian Weigend
Resource assessment methods for sustainable collection of Ratanhia (Krameria lappacea) in Peru
Nirmal Kumar Bhattarai
Community management of medicinal plants in Nepal: Practices and trends towards sustainability
Roser Cristobal
Collecting Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Gentiana lutea and Thymus in Northern Spain
Leonid N.Zayko, Nicolai Fadeev
Resource assessments in Russia for more than 75 years: Methods, practice and experiences
Horatiu Popa
Resource assessment methods for the sustainable collection of Arnica flowers in the Apuseni mountains in Romania
Slavcho Savev
Determining the potential production area (PPA) and effective productivity area (EPA) of medicinal plant resources in Bulgaria
Importance of taxonomic accuracy in resource assessment
Christoph Kleinn, Jennifer Wong
Compiling a handbook on NWFP inventories: A project of FAO´s Forestry Department