Global Wild Edibles of Deserts: Food Security and Sustainability provides coverage of topics in food and health in desert rangelands, using an interdisciplinary approach that considers health not only in a functional and human sense, but al...Lasīt vairāk
Melissopalynology: Bee Flora, Pollen and Honey presents a comprehensive guide to the floral biology of honeybee plants. Critical for developing optimal management techniques for honey bee habitats, as well as for the growth and sustainabili...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Sep-2016, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781493954940)
This volume addresses recent and ongoing ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans. The book focuses on elaborating the relevance of such studies for future initiatives in this region, both in terms of sustainable and peaceful (trans-regional, trans-c...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Nov-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781493914913)
This volume addresses recent and ongoing ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans. The book focuses on elaborating the relevance of such studies for future initiatives in this region, both in terms of sustainable and peaceful (trans-regional, trans-c...Lasīt vairāk
The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts. Modern botanical and medical science itself was built...Lasīt vairāk
Interest in environmental anthropology has grown steadily in recent years, reflecting national and international concern about the environment and developing research priorities, This major new international series is a vehicle for publishing up-to-d...Lasīt vairāk
The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effecti...Lasīt vairāk
When people travel they take their plants and plant lore with them. In some cultures, making medicinal plants mobile is essential to survival, and nearly every culture has some sort of folk remedy they feed with a plant they would have expected to fi...Lasīt vairāk
Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional societies. Important cultural information, along with extensive case studies, provides a clear, authori...Lasīt vairāk
Let food be your medicine, and medicine your food. Hippocrates dictum is followed by many traditional cultures. Similarly, functional foods are becoming increasingly popular in the West. Pieroni (ethnobotany/pharmacognosy, U. of Bradford, UK) an...Lasīt vairāk
