This book, for the first time, brings together a wide range of invasive plant specialists from the Asia-Pacific region to share their experience in addressing the problem and delivering solutions.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Foreword - Fang-Hao Wan
• Preface - Carol A. Ellison, K.V. Sankaran and Sean T. Murphy
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Invasive Alien Plants as a Constraint to Development in Tropical Asia: Is There a Crisis in the Making? - Sean T. Murphy
• 2. Profile of an Invasive Plant: Mikania micrantha - Carol A. Ellison and K.V. Sankaran
• 3. Social and Economic Implications of Mikania micrantha in the Kerala Western Ghats - V. Anitha, K.V. Santheep and Jyotsna Krishnakumar
• 4. Impacts and Management Options for Mikania micrantha in Plantations - K.V. Sankaran, Soekisman Tjitrosemito and Soetikno S. Sastroutomo
• 5. Mikania micrantha: Its Status and Impact on People and Wildlife in Nepal - Hem Sagar Baral and Bhaskar Adhikari
• 6. Impact and Management of Invasive Alien Plants in Pacific Island Communities - Warea Orapa
• 7. Understanding the Impact of Invasive Mikania micrantha in Shifting Agriculture and Its Management through Traditional Ecological Knowledge - P.S. Ramakrishnan
• 8. Prevention and Related Measures for Invasive Alien Plants in India: Policy Framework and Other Initiatives - Ravi Khetarpal, Kavita Gupta, Usha Dev and Kavya Dashora
• 9. Control Options for Invasive Alien Plants in Agroforestry in the Asia–Pacific Region - K.V. Sankaran
• 10. Classical Biological Control of Mikania micrantha: the Sustainable Solution - Carol A. Ellison and Matthew J.W. Cock
• 11. Policy Frameworks for the Implementation of a Classical Biological Control Strategy: the Chinese Experience - Jianqing Ding
• 12. Policy Frameworks for the Implementation of a Classical Biological Control Strategy: the Indian Experience - R.J. Rabindra, P. Sreerama Kumar and Abraham Verghese