Bibliographies

One of the major impediments to the advancement of medicinal plant conservation is the difficulty of accessing and analysing the relevant literature. Books and papers on medicinal plants count by the tens of thousands worlwide.

The first part of this publication provides an overview of IUCN Nepal's environmental economics programme, its major objectives and activities, and reviews its future plans. The second part forms a source book of information on environmental economics in Nepal. It is intended to help the reader understand the nature of environmental economics activities and to serve as an important reference material for students, researchers and policy-makers

A comprehensive bibliographic catalogue of over 1,600 IUCN publications. Includes not only the titles published by IUCN but also those produced in collaboration with others, as well as the publications of the Ramsar Convention Bureau, the CITES Secretariat, TRAFFIC and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC). Also available in this catalogue, an expanded list of Red Data Books and Lists, including those published nationally. Author, title, series and subject indexes provided

A directory covering the central American region and six countries : Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. For each country, a general description of the state of the environment is followed by a list of citations with abstracts of key environmental assessments and plans and a list of contacts in international, regional and national organisations.

The objective of this bibliography is to provide an overview of available literature (up to January 1997) concerning non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in the tropical forests of Africa. With this publication, the Netherlands Committee for IUCN hopes to facilitate and encourage the work of government institutions, NGOs and others who wish to engage in studies or activities on NTFPs in tropical Africa.

Books and papers on medicinal plants number tens of thousands worldwide. The bulk of them relate to pharmacology and medicinal properties or to classical ethnobotanical research. Regrettably, information on distribution, life history, biology, population status, levels of extraction and trade, or resource management of the taxa is scarce. Information urgently needed for setting plant conservation priorities is rare and scattered.