PPI PAPERS
Compiled here are recent papers by PPI Steering Committee Members, Associates and Affiliates organized by program area. Most titles are accessible in PDF format. For archived PPI publications, please click here.
CULTURAL LANDSCAPES AND RESOURCE RIGHTS
Peluso D. M. and M. N. Alexiades. 2005. Urban Ethnogenesis Begins at Home: The Making of Self and Place amidst Amazonia's Environmental Economy in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 16(2): 1-10. Download PDF English
Alexiades, M. N. 2005. Appropriation Regimes and Management Systems for Biodiversity: Some Comments on Environmental Governance, The Conservation of Biodiversity and the Role of Science. Download PDF English
HEALTH AND HABITAT
Cunningham, A. B., P. Shanley, and S. Laird. Health, Habitats and Medicinal Plant Use. Chapter in Human Health and Forests: A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy. London, England: Earthscan, 2008. Download PDF English
NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS
Laird, S. A., R. Wynberg and R. J. McLain. 2009. Wild Product Governance: laws and policies for sustainable and equitable non-timber forest product use. A United Nations University, Centre for International Forestry Research, People and Plants International, University of Cape Town, and Institute for Culture and Ecology policy brief, October 2009. Download PDF English
Shanley, P. and M. Stockdale. 2008. Traditional Knowledge, Forest Management, and Certification: A Reality Check in Forests, Trees and Livelihoods (18):00-00. Download PDF English
Alexiades, M. N and P. Shanley. 2005. Forest Products, Livelihoods and Conservation: Case Studies of NTFP Systems. Download PDF English
Alexiades, M. N y P. Shanley. 2004. Productos Forestales, Medios de Subsistencia y Conservación: Estudios de Caso sobre Sistemas de Manejo de Productos no Maderables. Download PDF Español
POLICY AND TRADE
Laird, S. and R. Wynberg, 2008. Bioprospecting: Securing a Piece of the Pie in World Conservation 38(1): 28-29. Download PDF English.
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. 2008. (authors Laird, S. and R. Wynberg). Access and Benefit-Sharing in Practice: Trends in Partnership Across Sectors. Montreal, Technical Series No. 38, 140 pages. Download PDF English.
Laird, S., C. Monagle and S. Johnston. 2008. Queensland Biodiscovery Collaboration:The Griffith University AstraZeneca Partnership for Natural Product Discovery - An Access & Benefit Sharing Case Study. United Nations University - Institute of Advanced Studies. Yokohama, 58 pages. This study examines the Natural Product Discovery partnership between Griffith University, an Australian university based in the State of Queensland and the pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca. Download PDF English.
Laird, S., S. Johnston and R. Wynberg. 2008. An International Dialogue for Informing Access and Benefit-Sharing in Business 2010 January 2008: 30-31. Download PDF English.
Wynberg, R. and S. Laird. 2007. Bioprospecting: Tracking the Policy Debate in Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 49(10): 20-32. Download PDF English
ARCHIVED PPI PUBLICATIONS
For older papers, including the PPI Working Papers series from 1992-2004, the People and Plants Handbooks published from 1996-2004, and literature reviews, please click here.