Editors:
- Includes descriptive, methodological, theoretical and applied research on key plants in this mountainous region
- Features hundreds of color photographs
- Offers a framework for the growing interest and scholarship
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions (ETMORE)
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Table of contents (302 entries)
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Front Matter
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Plant Profiles
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Front Matter
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About this book
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. Various societies of such professionals include the Society for Economic Botany, the International Society of Ethnopharmacology, the Society of Ethnobiology, the International Society for Ethnobiology, and many regional and national societies in the field that currently have thousands of members. Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries.
This new MRW on Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions covers the latest scholarship in the field of mountain research. It offers the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants for each region. Each contribution was scientifically rigorous and contributes to the overall field of study.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana
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Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia
Rainer W. Bussmann
About the editors
Dr. Bussmann earned his M.Sc. (Diploma) in Biology from Universität Tübingen, Germany, in 1993 and his doctorate from Universität Bayreuth, Germany, in 1994. He is an ethnobotanist and vegetation ecologist and currently Co-director of Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia; as well as Principal Scientist at the Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, both of which he co-founded. Before retiring from Missouri Botanical Garden, Dr. Bussmann was director of the William L. Brown Center at Missouri Botanical Garden, William L. Brown Curator of Economic Botany, and Senior Curator. Before accepting the directorship of WLBC, he held academic appointments as Research Fellow in Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin from 2006 to 2007, as Associate Professor of Botany and Scientific Director of Harold Lyon Arboretum at the University of Hawaii from 2003 to 2006, and as Assistant Professor at the University of Bayreuth from 1997 to 2003, following a postdoc at the same institution from 1994 to 1997. He holds affiliate faculty appointments at Washington University St. Louis, USA; University of Missouri St. Louis, USA; Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, USA; Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil; Universidád Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú; and at Ilia State University, Republic of Georgia, and serves as external thesis advisor at multiple other universities worldwide. His work focuses on ethnobotanical research, and the preservation of traditional knowledge, in Bolivia, Peru, Madagascar, the Caucasus, and the Himalayas. To date, Dr. Bussmann has authored over 270 peer-reviewed papers, over 750 book chapters, and authored or edited over 30 books.
Dr. Bussmann is a past President of the Society for Economic Botany and has served as board/council member of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, Botanical Society of America, and International Society of Ethnobiology. See more of his work on his website (https://www.cejaandina.org/rainer-w-bussmann/) and download publications from ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Bussmann).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethnobotany of the Andes
Editors: Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana, Rainer W. Bussmann
Series Title: Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28933-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28932-4Published: 01 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28933-1Published: 31 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-7489
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 1955
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1406 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Pathology