Janis B Alcorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 629422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janis B Alcorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janis B |
| FAMILY NAME | Alcorn |
| SIGNATURE | ALCORN J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cornered by PAs: Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action
We analyze how governments and the international community expand protected areas (PAs) to reduce biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation at a cost to indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in terms of rights and conflict. This contradicts commitments made by the conservation community to UNDRIP and Indigenous Peoples’ (IPs) and other human rights and Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. We build on information indigenous and conservation …
Intraspecific Prey Choice by Amazonian Hunters [and Comments and Reply]
Indigenous Peoples and Conservation
Utilization and conservation of genetic resources: International projects for sustainable agriculture
Evaluating Folk Medicine: Stories of Herbs, Healing, and Healers
Few subjects fascinate the imagination as does shamanism-exotic, barbaric, tinged with the suggestion of magic that works. And few subjects are debated as emotionally as the question of whether folk medicines prescribed to treat the litany of ailments from hemorrhoids to stomach aches really work or are simply the superstitious garble of ignorant people. In one way or another, the books selected for review here reflect this fascination and this d…
Settlement Patterns, Iconography, and Colonial Rule: Mesoamerica
Screening of medicinal plants used by huastec mayans of northeastern mexico
Huastec Mayan ethnobotany
Development policy, forests, and peasant farms: Reflections on Huastec-managed forests’ contributions to commercial production and resource conservation
Huastec noncrop resource management: Implications for prehistoric rain forest management
Intraspecific Prey Choice by Amazonian Hunters [and Comments and Reply]
Cornered by PAs: Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action
We analyze how governments and the international community expand protected areas (PAs) to reduce biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation at a cost to indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in terms of rights and conflict. This contradicts commitments made by the conservation community to UNDRIP and Indigenous Peoples’ (IPs) and other human rights and Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. We build on information indigenous and conservation …
Development policy, forests, and peasant farms: Reflections on Huastec-managed forests’ contributions to commercial production and resource conservation
Utilization and conservation of genetic resources: International projects for sustainable agriculture
Huastec noncrop resource management: Implications for prehistoric rain forest management
Huastec Mayan ethnobotany
Development policy, forests, and peasant farms: Reflections on Huastec-managed forests’ contributions to commercial production and resource conservation
Screening of medicinal plants used by huastec mayans of northeastern mexico
Settlement Patterns, Iconography, and Colonial Rule: Mesoamerica
Evaluating Folk Medicine: Stories of Herbs, Healing, and Healers
Few subjects fascinate the imagination as does shamanism-exotic, barbaric, tinged with the suggestion of magic that works. And few subjects are debated as emotionally as the question of whether folk medicines prescribed to treat the litany of ailments from hemorrhoids to stomach aches really work or are simply the superstitious garble of ignorant people. In one way or another, the books selected for review here reflect this fascination and this d…
Utilization and conservation of genetic resources: International projects for sustainable agriculture
Indigenous Peoples and Conservation
Intraspecific Prey Choice by Amazonian Hunters [and Comments and Reply]
Cornered by PAs: Adopting rights-based approaches to enable cost-effective conservation and climate action
We analyze how governments and the international community expand protected areas (PAs) to reduce biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation at a cost to indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in terms of rights and conflict. This contradicts commitments made by the conservation community to UNDRIP and Indigenous Peoples’ (IPs) and other human rights and Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. We build on information indigenous and conservation …
Geography (7 works) · Biology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works)