Overview
- Draws on a range of disciplines to offer a framework for the growing interest and scholarship in ethnobotany
- Updates research on plants of Africa’s mountain regions
- Features hundreds of color photographs
Part of the book series: Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions (ETMORE)
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Table of contents (174 entries)
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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 n
umber of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly (the various societies (Society for Economic Botany, International Society of Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, International Society for Ethnobiology, and many regional and national societies in the field currently have thousands of members). Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries.
The objective of this new MRW on Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions is to take advantage of the increasing international interest and scholarship in the field of mountain research. We anticipate including 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 will be scientifically rigorous and contribute to the overall field of study.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Rainer W. Bussmann earned his M.Sc. (Diploma) in Biology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 1993 and his doctorate at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in 1994. He is an ethnobotanist and vegetation ecologist,. He is currently co-director of Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia, and Principal Scientist at the Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, both of which he co-founded. Before, Dr. Bussmann was director of the William L. Brown Center (WLBC) 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; Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil; National University of San Marcos, Peru; and 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 1200 book chapters, and authored or edited over 35 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 workon 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 Mountain Regions of Africa
Editors: Rainer W. Bussmann
Series Title: Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38386-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38385-5Published: 23 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38386-2Published: 22 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-7489
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 1125
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 657 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Pathology