TY - BOOK ID - 137080613 TI - Ethnobotanic resources of tropical montane forests PY - 2011 SN - 1283227347 9786613227348 9956717568 9956717932 9956717193 9789956717934 9789956717194 9956717304 9789956717309 9956717304 9789956717309 PB - Mankon, Bamenda Langaa Research & Pub. CIG DB - UniCat KW - Ethnobotany KW - Mountain plants UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137080613 AB - Mountain forests provide important ecological services, and essential products. This book focuses on the importance of mountain forests in Cameroon for the local people who depend most directly on them, and have often developed a wealth of indigenous knowledge on plants and sophisticated institutions for managing limited plant and animal resources. Such knowledge and institutions have often been threatened, or even destroyed, by centralization and globalization; yet there is increasing recognition that community-based institutions are the best adapted to ensuring that mountain forests continue ER -