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Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Reflecting on Research in Ethnobotany
    Ethnobotany for Beginners, 2017
    Co-Authors: Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Patrícia Muniz De Medeiros
    Abstract:

    What ethnobotanists have thought about Ethnobotany today? After more than 100 years of formal definition in this area of knowledge, it is possible to imagine that some things have changed in this way. Thus, in this chapter, we will seek to address some of the current thinking about the path that Ethnobotany has taken or will still have to go on to consolidate its identity as a science. Of course, such thoughts do not necessarily correspond to a consensus among ethnobotanists but instead emerge from concerns presented by some research groups, particularly the authors of this book.

  • Is Ethnobotany an Ecological Science? Steps towards a complex Ethnobotany
    Ethnobiology and Conservation, 2012
    Co-Authors: Julio Alberto Hurrell, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
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    There are different links between ecology and Ethnobotany. In principle, because they have common interests, like the conservation of plant resources. Nevertheless, the consolidation of the ecology as a science of synthesis that is based on the complexity of relationships between organisms and their surroundings, allows the ecology to provide a conceptual framework for more complex and comprehensive Ethnobotany. This is also, for origin, a science of synthesis. In this contribution we discuss the basic aspects of ecology that can become guides for a complex framework of Ethnobotany, which acts as a context in which their contributions to acquire significance. It also discusses various aspects of Ethnobotany which, by its own complexity, are linked to the theoretical framework of ecology. Finally, we consider Ethnobotany as an ecological science, from which certain assumptions are given, that can guide investigations based on the complex relationships between people and plants, the object of study of this science.

  • Quantitative Ethnobotany or Quantification in Ethnobotany
    Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 2009
    Co-Authors: Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
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    www.Ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol7/i1547-3465-07-001.pdf Ethnobotany Research & Applications 7:001-003 (2009) Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Biologia, Area de Botânica. Laboratorio de Etnobotânica Aplicada (www.etnobotanicaaplicada.com.br). Dom Manoel de Medeiros s/n. Dois Irmaos, Recife, Pernambuco, BRAZIL. upa@db.ufrpe.br ent an opportunity to benefit and improve our scientific practices. One of the first explicit responses to the “weak science” criticism (due to the largely descriptive nature of much of the published research) can be found in Phillips and Gentry (1993a,b). The term quantitative Ethnobotany is defined in these works “as the application of quantitative techniques to direct analysis of contemporary plant use data”. The term quantitative Ethnobotany appears for the first time in Balee (1987) in an article published in a Brazilian journal, and was mentioned in that same year in an interesting paper by Prance and collaborators (1987) that had William Balee as one of the coauthors. Since then, the term “quantitative Ethnobotany” has been increasing used by other workers in the field. According to the “Web of Science” data base, this phrase has appeared in approximately 87 publications, and with the references cited in the paper by Phillips & Gentry comes to a total of 142 citations.

Nancy J. Turner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Ethnobiology - Ethnobotany: The Study of People–Plant Relationships
    Ethnobiology, 2011
    Co-Authors: Justin M. Nolan, Nancy J. Turner
    Abstract:

    Ethnobotany’s development has challenged the prevailing trend in academic studies of the twentieth century of disciplinary specialization. It reflects congruence with our human efforts to understand our place in the world. It parallels other interdisciplinary fields: environmental history, political ecology, cultural ecology, environmental ethics, ecological economics, and ecological restoration. Linked to Ethnobotany are taxonomy, nutrition, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, palynology, ecology, and conservation biology. Ethnobotany has also been constructed to include studies of those life forms traditionally, but no longer, considered as plants: algae,

  • Ethnobotany the study of people plant relationships
    2011
    Co-Authors: Justin M. Nolan, Nancy J. Turner
    Abstract:

    Ethnobotany’s development has challenged the prevailing trend in academic studies of the twentieth century of disciplinary specialization. It reflects congruence with our human efforts to understand our place in the world. It parallels other interdisciplinary fields: environmental history, political ecology, cultural ecology, environmental ethics, ecological economics, and ecological restoration. Linked to Ethnobotany are taxonomy, nutrition, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, palynology, ecology, and conservation biology. Ethnobotany has also been constructed to include studies of those life forms traditionally, but no longer, considered as plants: algae,

Pei Sheng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Ethnobotany and Its Modern Applied Research in China
    Plant Diversity and Resources, 2013
    Co-Authors: Pei Sheng
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    Ethnobotany was born in 1896. The extensive demanding on plant resources for industry development in nineteen century and the richness of plant resources in colonial territories were the great driven force for Ethnobotany. Robber,tea,coffee,coca and many important medical and aromatic plants,precious timbers were exploited from tropical forests which greatly supported the development of industry and world trade. Since last century,accelerated industry development and economy globalization resulted degradetion of natural resources and environment world wide,biodiversity conservation and environment protection have been the common goal and global concern, Ethnobotany as a scientific field has been development from classic field survey and utilization of plant resources to plant conservation and traditional botanical knowledge protection. Maintaining the co-exist of biodiversity and cultural diversity,to serve for sustainable use of plant resources and socio-economic development are the core tasks for Ethnobotany in the new era of the world. Ethnobotany is deep-rooted in traditional Chinese culture. However Ethnobotany as discipline to study with in China was begun in 1982 at beginning of the reform policy and opening up to the world,fast development of industry has resulted huge demanding to natural resources and modernization of agriculture has a great influence on traditional knowledge and genetic resources in China,which are the most important issues in the sustainable development of China today and provides a historical opportunity for the new development of Ethnobotany in China.

  • Ethnobotany and the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
    Plant Diversity and Resources, 2013
    Co-Authors: Pei Sheng
    Abstract:

    Ethnobotany,as a scientific discipline,deals with human-plant relationships,and is vitally important to plant conservation. Ethnobotany is used in many countries throughout the world for documenting indigenous knowledge of plants. Consequently,many inventories of useful plants in local floras have been compiled. Over the last hundred years,local knowledge about plants,gained through ethnobotanical studies,has contributed greatly to the development of medicine and agriculture,and to the discovery of numerous new plant-based products. Since the 1960s,the scientific community has become increasingly aware of the magnitude of global environmental change, now occurring at a speed never before encountered in human history. Natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate and there are threats of imminent extinction to many species. Faced with this crisis,ethnobotanical research assumes a new urgency,not only as a tool for trying to deal with environmental degradation,but also for its potential usefulness in contributing to sustainable use of plant resources and poverty reduction among rural communities. Ethnobotanical research can contribute to modern development in many ways,including: creating information / data-banks of traditional knowledge about plants for use in conservation and future development; managing the landscape so as to best deliver conservation benefits of all types; enhancing rural community engagement in rural devel- opment. This paper discusses Ethnobotany and its role in modern development and biodiversity conservation,the challenges that biodiversity and sustainable use face,and the biocultural approach of biodiversity use and conservation.

  • Review on Two Decades Development of Ethnobotany in China
    Acta Botanica Yunnanica, 2008
    Co-Authors: Pei Sheng
    Abstract:

    This paper presents and discusses on two decades development history of Ethnobotany in China.Ethnobotany appeared as a scientific research subject in 1896 in USA,Ethnobotany as discipline to study with in China was begun in 1982;and in 1987 the first Ethnobotany research department was established at the Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences.After twenty years development,Ethnobotany in China has been developed from basic,or desecriptive research into applied phase,immense progress has been made in sustainable plant resource use,biodiversity conservation and rural regional-coordination development.However,Ethnobotany as discipline in China is remarkable in establishement of theoretic framework;identification of research areas;methodological development and set-up appropriate approaches for basic and applied Ethnobotany.This paper presents and discusses development history of Ethnobotany in China;advances in research and field-site development;discipline development and training of young scientists;theoretical innovation and development,and promotion of ethnobotanical research and training in China,which are largely based on the works that have been done and development facts presented at the Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences.Meanwhile suggestions for further development of Chinese Ethnobotany in three aspects are proposed in the paper.

  • Ethnobotany of forage plants:a case study in Arhorchin Banner of Inner Mongolia
    Acta Pratacultural Science, 2000
    Co-Authors: Pei Sheng
    Abstract:

    This paper is a discussion on the importance of Ethnobotany of traditional and local knowledge about the use of forage plants by indigenous people, based on an field survey carried out in Arhorchin Banner of Inner Mongolia. Ethnobotany has proved an effective method for excavating, conserving and applying traditional knowledge and experience of indigenous people in the pastoral areas of China.

Kristina M. Straus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.