Tropical forests, people and food : biocultural interactions and applications to development / edited by C.M. Hladik ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hladik, C. M. (Claude Marcel)

Unesco.

Series:

Man and the biosphere series ; v. 13.

Man and the biosphere series ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diet--Tropics--Congresses.

Diet.

Tropics.

Nutrition--Tropics--Congresses.

Nutrition.

Rain forest ecology--Congresses.

Rain forest ecology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 852 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Paris : UNESCO ; Carnforth, UK ; Pearl River, N.Y. : Parthenon Pub. Group, 1993.

Summary:

Resulting from an international scientific symposium that took place at UNESCO House in Paris in September 1991, this volume's 74 contributions are organized into six major sections dealing with: evolution and history of tropical forests in relation to food availability; food production and nutritional value of wild and semi- cultivated species; adaptive aspects of food consumption and energy expenditure; feeding strategies in relation to environmental variation; cultural factors in food choices; and management alternatives for the rational use of tropical forests in years to come. Each section begins with a background chapter that provides key references and integrates the individual chapters in terms of overall themes and salient problems. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Notes:

Papers presented at a symposium held at the UNESCO in Sept. 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1850703809 :

9231028790

OCLC:

28507574