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Estimating Use-Values And Relative Importance Of Amazonian Flood Plain Trees And Forests To Local Inhabitants, Lars P. Kvist, Martin K. Andersen, Martin Hesselsoe, Jerome K. Vanclay
Estimating Use-Values And Relative Importance Of Amazonian Flood Plain Trees And Forests To Local Inhabitants, Lars P. Kvist, Martin K. Andersen, Martin Hesselsoe, Jerome K. Vanclay
Professor Jerome K Vanclay
Use-values have been advocated as a tool to compare the value of not just individual species, but also of plant families and forest types to local people, in order, for example, to identify species or habitats in need of special management or conservation. We estimated use-values in three forest types (upper restinga, lower restinga, tahuampa) on the Amazon flood plain south of Iquitos (Peru), compared two methodologies, identified the most valuable species and contrasted these valuations with the actual use of forest resources in local villages. A new method for estimating use-values was contrasted with the method of Phillips and …