Integrating traditional and scientific knowledge of forest regeneration in swidden cultivation systems of Northern Thailand for tropical forest regeneration

The project was a joint one-year undertaking of the Biology Department of Chiang Mai University in Thailand and the Asian Institute of Thailand - the former affiliation of the second author of this contribution - carried out from 2007 to 2008. The main focus of the project was to collect empirical data and indigenous knowledge on forest regeneration on swidden fallows in Northern Thailand in order to assist tropical forest restoration activities in Thailand and neighboring countries. Field research was carried out in two villages of Mae Chaem district in Northern Thailand applying a combination of biological and ethnoscience methodology.