About the Author:
For those who want to know a little bit about me, I studied forestry at the University of Arkansas and received my Masters and Ph.D. in plant ecology from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. I have been investigating the ecology, use, and management of tropical forest resources for more than 15 years. My fieldwork has taken me to two of the largest and least explored tropical regions in the world, lowland Amazonia and the island of Borneo, as well as to the managed forest of Mayan Mexico. I am the author of numerous scholarly papers and articles and have written two books on the sustainable exploitation of rain forest resources. I am currently the Kate E. Tode Curator of Botany in the Institute of Economic Botany of The New York Botanical Garden. I can be contacted at (cpeters@nybg.org), and I would welcome any comments (brief ones, please) that you have about the sustainability primer. Thanks for your interest....
Charles M. Peters, Ph.D.
