Knowledge Of Plants

R.N. Pati,S.C. Agrawal Illustrator: NA: Folk Medicine Folk Healers and Medicinal Plants of Chhatisgarh, Sarup Book Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2010 ISBN: 9788176256070

New Hardcover 20 x 25 cm. This volume covers a wide range of research based topics on traditional forestry knowledge and practices relating to sustainable use of biodiversity resources among local and indigenous communities through out the state of Chhattisgarh. The research articles have been contributed by eminent scientists, policy makers and forest executives of Chhattisgarh. The articles have been categorized into five broad thematic sections. These sections are Intellectual Property Right and Collective Biodiversity Knowledge, Green Consumerism vs Conservation of MAP diversity in Chhattisgarh, Sustainable Use of Medicinal Plants, Folk Healers of Chhattisgarh and Medicinal Plant Diversity in Chhattisgarh. Chhattisgarh, the premier herbal state of India upholds rick local health tradition and cultural heritage of the state. The traditional forestry knowledge upheld by forest dwelling communities of the state contribute significantly towards ensuring balance between ecology and economic development since time immemorial. The traditional knowledge base of these communities is tightly interwoven with traditional religious beliefs, customs, folklore, land-use practices and community-level decision-making processes. In the era of industrialization and neocolonisation, the traditional forest related knowledge and practices of this herbal state have been exposed to series of threats. These threats are imbalanced power relations between State forest management authorities and local and indigenous communities. The traditional governance systems and customary laws are often at odds with those of the State. The traditional knowledge and practices are in the process of erosion. The policies and regulations of the government very often restrict access and traditional use of forest resources which lead to brutal damage and erosion of traditional culture and of traditional land and forest management knowledge and practices. The younger generations in indigenous communities of the state do not take interest in protecting traditional wisdom, knowledge and lifestyle. This irreparable loss of traditional knowledge and livelihoods cultural and biological diversity has led to degradation of local adaptability to maintain balance between ecosystem and economic development of the state. This volume covers a well documented directory f traditional healers of the state maintained by Chhattisgarh State Medicinal Plants Board. This volume will provide a wide range of guidelines to policy makers, environmentalists and researches to develop appropriate action plan and projects on sustainable use and conservation of medicinal plants. Printed Pages: 390. First edition

[SW: Folk Medicine Folk Healers and Medicinal Plants of ChhatisgarhR.N. Pati, S.C. Agrawal9788176256070]

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Pröpper, Michael: Culture and biodiversity in central Kavango, Namibia. Kulturanalysen Band 10. Berlin : Reimer, 2009. ISBN: 9783496028277
Einband stw. leicht berieben. - OPENING SECTION - Introduction - Problem, questions and objectives - Outline and structure of the book - Dimensions of human-biodiversity interaction Biodiversity, environment, resources Actors, culture, interaction A cultural - social - ecological system - Methodology: Realizing interaction research - Overview and general methodology - Census - Cultural actors: Seeing and knowing the environment - deciding and acting - Kavango setting and situation - Climatic, geographic and biotic environment - Status of Kavango ethnographic sources - Some central aspects of a history of Kavango people - Sources - Historic overview - Kavango today - Borders - Ethnicity - Languages - Problems and challenges - The Research situation and 'field' - EMPIRICAL PARTI: - 'DIRECT' HUMAN-BIODIVERSITY INTERACTION - Demography and biodiversity: A census point of view - The Kavango census The territorial census sample - Census data and the household as a unit of analysis - Census data quality assessment - Census data - Census samples composition - Ethnicity - Village level demography - Population - Villages and ethnic affiliation - Age-Distribution - Fertility - Mortality and life expectancy - Natural population development - Migration - Inward migration - Inward migration patterns and history - Outward migration - Ethnic component of temporary out-migration - Summary on migration - Population growth and pressure on resources - Household level demography Household sizes and composition - Summary: Demography and biodiversity impact - Environmental knowledge, use-forms and impacts Mental concepts of the environment - Structures of botanical knowledge Domain specific freelisting Central findings 'Most important wild plants' Crops and garden plants, vegetables - Use forms and their impacts Agriculture and clearing Clearing of trees and bushes Clearing of grasses and unwanted species Harvesting of natural resources Harvesting of wood - Harvesting of grasses - Harvesting of fruits and medicinal plants - The impact of human induced fires - Exemplary correlations of botanical salience and uses - Trees and bushes - Wild fruits - Healing plants - Crops - Synthesis on botany and impact - Structures of zoological knowledge Knowledge, uses and impact situation on fauna - Soils - Water - Summary: Utilitarism and biodiversity as natural capital - Domestic economy and natural capital - Units of economic analysis - Households - Individual actors within households - Forms of capital - Households' physical capital and wealth - Financial capital: - Labour income, remittances, pensions, credits - Individuals, cultural/human capital and education - Production and biodiversity The cultivation system Rainfall levels - Household land: Fields for agriculture Knowledge, skills and natural capital Households' and actors' agricultural labour input Households' agricultural productivity Community and collective production Pastoralism: Security through livestock farming Diversification and cash: Extracting products Distributing natural resources and products Distribution of agricultural products Exchanging livestock Resource distribution - Domestic consumption of natural resources Consumption for physical capital Domestic consumption of crops and wild resources Consumption of livestock products - Summary: Unproductive but valued subsistence - 'INDIRECT' SOCIAL INTERACTION AND BIODIVERSITY - The social world framing situational biodiversity decisions - Social interaction and exchange - Spheres, roles and types of transactions - Networks - Correspondence analysis and complete networks - Cooperation, trust and reciprocity Economic trust-game experiments - Kinship - traditionally and today - Matrilineality: clans, lineages - Patrilateral and affinal relatives - Families, kinship terminology, rules and rights - The domestic social fabric - Partnership, marriage and residence - Gendered domestic labour division - Children - Public and domestic social conflicts and problems - Public and domestic violence - Alcoholism and unemployment - Divorces - Teenage pregnancies - HIV Aids - Summary: Kinship and collective environmental action (u.a.m.) ISBN 9783496028277 - , ISBN: 3496028270

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(Herausg.): Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge (Law and Society) Univ of British Columbia, ISBN: 0774811528
leichte Lagerspuren Synopsis\nLegal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is often a vexed issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of knowledge are systemically marginalized and devalued as folk knowledge or characterized as inferior. Biopiracy rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the Western-based, Eurocentric patent systems of the world, and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP. Observing that biopiracy issues are often buried in technical and diplomatic understatements, Mgbeoji examines the difficulty of discerning the issues at stake and the scale of international disagreements. The analysis is cast in various contexts and examined at multiple levels. The first deals with the Eurocentric character of the patent system, international law, and institutions. The second involves the cultural and economic dichotomy between the industrialized Western world and the westernizing, developing world.<p/>The third level of analysis considers the phenomenal loss of human cultures and plant diversity. Mgbeoji implicates the traditionally Western patent system and international law, cultural and gender biases of Western epistemology, and the commercial orientation of the patent system in the appropriation and privatization of plants and TKUP. The impact of intellectual property law on indigenous peoples and informal or traditional innovations is a field of study that currently includes only a handful of scholars. Exhaustively researched and eloquently argued, Biopiracy will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and legal practitioners. , ISBN-13: 9780774811521

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Ahmad, Mahr Fayyaz; Alam, Khurshid; Ahmad, Saeed: The Studies on Medicinal Plants of Cholistan Desert Pakistan An Ethnobotanical & Ethnopharmacological Approach to Medicinal Plants of Cholistan Desert and its joining area, LAP LAMBERT ACADEMIC PUBLISHING, Juli 2011, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3845402180
Local people of Cholistan desert of Bahawalpur (Pakistan) have always used medicinal plants for their common health problems by traditional method. Indigenous knowledge of local people about medicinal plant is directly linked to their culture and history. The present study was designed for the Ethnobotanical evaluation of Cholistan desert, which is one of the resource based area of medicinal plants. Indigenous knowledge of local people about the medicinal uses of plants is the source of ideas for new research in drug development and for wider use and economic benefit. There are large number of unexploited plant species in the area which could prove useful. The local people of this desert have good knowledge of the utilization of medicinal plants and this knowledge is going to be lost because of the interference of modern cultural changes. The observations emerged from the present study to be substantiated with pharmaco-chemical studies in the order to evaluate their effectiveness.

NEUBUCH! 2011. 232 S. 220 mm x 150 mm x 14 mm

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