NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS 13RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS
NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS 13
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Glossary
Section 1
Introduction
1.1 Objectives of the
paper
1.2 What is a NWFP?
1.3
Background
1.4 Approach, scope and
limitations
Section 2 The role of
biometrics in NWFP resource assessment
2.1 The
role of resource assessment in sustainable NWFP harvesting
2.2 Why is
quantitative resource information needed?
2.3 What makes a study
biometrically sound?
2.4 How good are existing
methods?
2.5 Is biometrics always
necessary?
Section 3 Quantitative
studies on NWFPs
3.1 Finding out how much of a
resource is present
3.2 Finding out the yield of a
resource
3.3 Measuring growth and
production rates
3.4 Determining sustainable
harvest levels
3.5 Monitoring the success of
management actions
3.6 Participatory
approaches
Section 4
Contributions from other approaches to NWFP resource
assessment
4.1 Biodiversity
inventory
4.2 Social science
techniques
4.3 Looking at NWFPs from a
cultural perspective
4.4 Defining
ethnobotany.
4.5 Economic methods
Section 5 Designing a
biometric inventory for NWFPs
5.1 Deciding whether
biometrics is important
5.2 An inventory design
decision-support framework
5.3 Research issues
Section 6 Literature
resources
6.1 References
6.2 Further reading
6.3 Supplementary
literature
Section 7
Annexes
7.1 Annex
1. Classification of NWFPs - examples of approaches used
7.2 Annex 2. Understanding
plots and subplots
7.3 Annex 3. Example of NWFP
inventory outputs
7.4 Annex 4. Some currently
used and emerging sampling methods
7.5 Annex 5. Useful
institutions and Web sites