Sustainable control of invasive plants : Adding Value to Biodiversity Economy for Ecosystem Services

ISBN-13: 9783659802072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 332 str.

John Morris

Opis

Nature Conservation becomes more and more a problem that needs everybody's attention. The demographic explosion, unequal achievement and distribution of wealth, pollution and political neglect together with economic underdevelopment of large areas of our planet, conduct to stringent needs, among them an important role comes to Control of Invasive Plants. Governmental grants for an integrated R&D Pilot Plant with four factories and two laboratories where biotechnology students bring to real life research projects which add value to alien weeds and invasive plants, by using mostly unconventional technologies and innovative methods, makes this initiative to be unique in South Africa and in the world. Among the results of the developed projects during the past sixteen years are natural pesticides, soil development products - MEOF, plant growth regulators, natural/herbal medicines, biodiesel/biofuel and other new products. [The book shows an inclusive co-transformational value-adding approach, to promote a unique and strong advocacy for new discoveries by screening opportunities based on botanical material offered by invasive plant species.

O autorze

John Morris developed a new Biodiversity Economy in South Africa and invented over 100 natural medicines with fast healing effects since 1999. His PhD dissertation in management of technology and innovation was obtained at The DaVinci Institute for Technology Management in Johannesburg, in May 2012.