Acronyms And Contributors

Do you speak this language? a directory of acronyms

ACP: African, Caribbean and Pacific
APFT: Avenir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales (Future of Tropical Rainforest Peoples)
AWF: African Wildlife Foundation
BCI: Barro Colorado Island
BFA: Biodiversity Foundation for Africa
CA: Current Anthropology
CABI: CAB International
CAMP: Conservation Assessment Management Plan
CANARI: Caribbean Natural Resources Institute
CATIE: Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Center)
CBSG: Conservation Breeding Specialist Group
CDC: Conservation Data Center
CEFYBO: Centro de Estudios Farmacológicos y Botánicos
CID: Conservation in Development
CIKARD: Centre for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development
CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
CNIE: Committee for the National Institute for the Environment
CTFS: Center for Tropical Forest Science
DFID: Department for International Development
EC: European Commission
EFU: Ecoforestry Unit
ESMP: Environmental Security Science and Management
ETFRN: European Tropical Forest Research Network
FRLHT: Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions
FSC: Forest Stewardship Council
ICAD: Integrated Conservation and Development
ICDP: Integrated Conservation and Development Programme
IESAM: Institute of Environmental Science and Management
IIRR: International Institute for Rural Reconstruction
IK: Indigenous Knowledge
ILDIS: International Legume Database and Information Service
ITTO: International Timber Trade Organization
IUCN: World Conservation Union (formerly the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources)
MAB: Man and the Biosphere
NGO: Non-Governmental Organization
NILAS: Nature in Legend and Story Society
ODA: Overseas Development Administration (now DFID)
OTS: Organization for Tropical Studies
PELUM: Participatory Ecological Land Use Management
PHVA: Population and Habitat Viability Assessment
PROSEA: Plant Resources of South East Asia
RBG: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
SBMA: Subic Bay Municipal Authority
SEB: Society of Economic Botany
SIDT: Solomon Islands Development Trust
SSC: Species Survival Commission
STRI: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
SUAN: Southeast Asian Universities Agroecosystem Network
TNC: The Nature Conservancy
TOCA: Tohono O’odham Community Action
TPU: Threatened Plants Unit
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UPLB: University of Philippines Los Baños
WCMC: World Conservation Monitoring Centre
WWF: World Wide Fund for Nature

Who are we? a list of contributors

A range of people from various countries and academic backgrounds collaborate on the People and Plants Handbook. Here’s a key to the initials found on preceding pages:

ABC is Anthony B. (Tony) Cunningham, African regional coordinator of the People and Plants Initiative. He studied natural resource management and rural sociology, and is now based in Free Mantle, Australia. Contact: AB Cunningham, WWF People and Plants Initiative, 84 Watkins St, White Gum Valley, Fremantle, 6162, Australia; Tel./Fax: +61.8.93366783, E-mail peopleplants@bigpond.com

ALH is Alison L. Hoare, an ethnobotanist from the UK and former associate editor of the Handbook. She is currently studying for her Ph.D. in the Anthropology Department of the University of Kent at Canterbury. Contact: Alison L. Hoare, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NS, UK; E-mail: alh2@ukc.ac.uk

CC is Cath Cotton has spent many years researching economic botany and is currently working for Greenpeace International’s Ancient Forest Campaign. Moving initially from phytochemistry to molecular genetics, she has been involved, as an academic, in several ethnobotanical and ecotourism related projects. She is the author of Ethnobotany: Principles and Applications. Contact: Cath Cotton, c/o 30 Askill Drive, Putney, London SW15 2HX, UK; Tel. +44.181.8748405, E-mail cathcotton@hotmail.com

CKS is Christin Kocher Schmid, the Pacific Coordinator of the program APFT (Avenir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales) funded by EC under DGVIII. She is based in the Anthropology Department, Eliot College, The University of Kent at Canterbury. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Basel, Switzerland. Contact: Christin Kocher Schmid, APFT – Avenir des Peuples des Forets Tropicales, Pacific Coordinator, Anthropology, Eliot College, The University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury CT2 7NS, UK; Fax +44.1227.827289, E-mail C.Kocher@ukc.ac.uk

GJM is Gary J. Martin, an anthropologist and botanist from the USA and France, is general editor of the Handbook. In addition, he is the Website manager of People and Plants Online, http://www.kew.org.uk/peopleplants

MVTR is Mariliza V. Ticsay-Ruscoe

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