Valuation of commercial central Himalayan medicinal plants

Ambio

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 607-610

  Olsen, Carsten Smith ^a,b,c,d  

^a DANISH FOREST LANDSCAPE RES INST   (Denmark)

^b IUCN Medicinal Plant Specialist Group   (Denmark)

^c IUFRO Working Group on Medicinal Forest Products   (Denmark)

^d Centre for Forest Landscape and Planning   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; MEDICINAL PLANT; VALUATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 31544480055     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-34.8.607     Document Type: Article

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43. Acknowledgments: I thank all the traders who took time to contribute to the study. Nirmal K. Bhattarai was invaluable during data collection. Malene Hall contributed to data handling. Helle Larsen, Finn Helles and an anonymous reviewer provided useful comments. The Council for Development Research of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Danish Agricultural and Veterinary Research Council provided funding.
44. First submitted 25 July 2004. Accepted for publication 21 January 2005.