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Title Ethnobotany of the Himalayas / Ripu M. Kunwar, Hassan Sher, Rainer W. Bussmann, editors
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource : color illustrations
Series Ethnobotany of mountain regions, 2523-7489
Ethnobotany of mountain regions. 2523-7489
Contents Part I Regions: The Hindukush and Karakoram -- The Indian Himalaya (Garhwal Himalaya) -- The Nepal, Bhutanese, and Tibetan Himalayas -- Part II Plant profiles (249 plant species from A-Z)
Summary Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that "traditional" knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the worlds mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwide will be interested in this website and its dynamic content. The field (and thus the market) of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology has grown considerably in recent years. Student interest is on the rise, attendance at professional conferences has grown steadily, and the number of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly (the various societies, like the Society for Economic Botany, the International Society of Ethnopharmacology, the Society of Ethnobiology, and the International Society for Ethnobiology currently have thousands of members). Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries. This new MRW on Ethnobotany of the Himalayas takes advantage of the increasing international interest and scholarship in the field of mountain research. It includes the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants in the Himalayas. Each contribution is scientifically rigorous and contributes to the overall field of study
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 5, 2021)
Subject Ethnobotany -- Himalaya Mountains
Ethnobotany
Etnobotànica.
Himalaya Mountains
Himàlaia (Àsia : Serralada)
Genre/Form Llibres electrònics.
Form Electronic book
Author Kunwar, Ripu M., editor
Sher, Hassan, editor
Bussmann, Rainer, editor
ISBN 9783030574086
3030574083