Walters, Bradley B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
SSHRC-Canada
Article History
Received: 31 May 2023
Accepted: 6 August 2023
First Online: 21 September 2023
Declarations
: No quantitative data are presented in this paper, and I declare no conflicts of interest. Funding for the field research case studies cited here was provided by a Graduate Research Grant from Rutgers University, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Marjorie Young Bell Faculty grants from Mount Allison University. Field research for the two case studies cited in the paper was subject to formal ethical review at Rutgers and Mount Allison University, respectively. The fieldwork for these studies is long completed and the empirical findings from this research published in a book and various peer-reviewed journals, including <i>Economic Botany</i> (Walters CitationRef removed). These studies concerned the interactions between people, trees, and forests and so were not concerned with specific knowledge of plants or local plant uses that could be commercialized or subject to copyright concerns. There were no specific botanical materials collected, except on several occasions sample tree leaves were brought from the field to aid in later species identification, and these samples were then destroyed. Likewise, no specific botanical knowledge from local people was collected that was or could be used for commercial purposes. All interviews were conducted according to appropriate ethical protocols regarding human subjects, and information from these was managed according to relevant data management protocols.