- Title
- Cultural importance of non-timber forest products: opportunities they pose for bio-cultural diversity in dynamic societies
- Creator
- Cocks, Michelle L
- Creator
- López, Citlalli
- Creator
- Dold, Anthony P
- Date Issued
- 2011
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141453
- Identifier
- vital:37973
- Identifier
- ISBN 9783642179822
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17983-9_5
- Description
- There is an increasing awareness that monetary value does not fully represent the complete value and significance of NTFPs. Consequently, there is growing interest in the cultural dimensions of biodiversity and the role that it plays in human well-being. This chapter presents two case studies, one on traditional brooms in South Africa, and the other on amate paper in Mexico, to demonstrate the importance of cultural values on driving demand for NTFPs. Because cultural values are so deeply embedded, the demand for culturally valued NTFPs continue across the rural-urban divide, and are maintained even by modernising urban communities. This poses particular challenges, not only for conservation of the NTFPs, but also to sustain cultural diversity in a rapidly changing world.
- Format
- 12 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Cocks, M., López, C. and Dold, T., 2011. Cultural importance of non-timber forest products: opportunities they pose for bio-cultural diversity in dynamic societies. In Non-timber forest products in the global context (pp. 107-128). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
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