商品描述
Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for humans, particularly in the rural areas and mountain regions around the world. Over centuries, indigenous peoples, traditional societies, and local communities have developed their own specific knowledge regarding plant use, management, and conservation. The history of plant use by humans as food and to treat diverse ailments dates back to ancient civilizations. Even though the advent of allopathic medicine has somehow minimized the role of medicinal plants in favor of synthetic drugs, a number of modern drug discoveries have been based on medicinal plants used by indigenous peoples. Ethnobiology is the burgeoning interdisciplinary scientific field, which covers all types of interactions between plants and people, and Eastern Europe is recognized as a plant diversity hot spot.
This new Major Reference Work on the
Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions of Eastern Europe: Carpathians covers in detail the mountains and vallies of this region, which are known to be rich in unique medicinal and food plant species. Local communities residing in the mountain regions of Eastern Europe possess unique knowledge of surrounding resources, which is the result of many years of interaction with and selection of the most desirable and pervasive plant species present. In this context this major reference work provides comprehensive information on cross-culture variation in the traditional uses of plants as food, medicine, and for cultural purposes among these diverse communities residing in Eastern Europe. The key areas of focus include plant diversity in the Carpathians, cross cultural variation in traditional uses of plant species by these communities, high-value medicinal and food plant species, and threats and conservation status of plant species and traditional knowledge.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
自然資源及其相關的生物多樣性為人類的生計提供了基礎，特別是在全球的農村和山區。幾個世紀以來，原住民、傳統社會和地方社區已經發展出關於植物使用、管理和保護的特定知識。人類使用植物作為食物和治療各種疾病的歷史可以追溯到古代文明。儘管西醫的出現在某種程度上減少了藥用植物的角色，轉而偏向合成藥物，但許多現代藥物的發現仍然基於原住民使用的藥用植物。民族生物學是一個新興的跨學科科學領域，涵蓋了植物與人類之間的各種互動，而東歐被認為是植物多樣性的熱點。
這部關於《東歐山區民族植物學：喀爾巴阡山脈》的新主要參考著作詳細介紹了該地區的山脈和山谷，這裡以獨特的藥用和食用植物物種而聞名。居住在東歐山區的地方社區擁有對周圍資源的獨特知識，這是多年來與最具吸引力和普遍存在的植物物種互動和選擇的結果。在這個背景下，這部主要參考著作提供了有關這些居住在東歐的多樣社區在植物作為食物、藥物和文化用途上的傳統使用的跨文化變異的綜合信息。重點領域包括喀爾巴阡山脈的植物多樣性、這些社區對植物物種的傳統使用的跨文化變異、高價值的藥用和食用植物物種，以及植物物種和傳統知識的威脅與保護狀況。
作者簡介
Dr. Rainer W. Bussmann is an ethnobotanist and vegetation ecologist, and Co-Founder of the Institute of Botany's Department of Ethnobotany at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Prior, he held directorship of the William L. Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden, worked as research Fellow in Geography and the Environment at UT Austin, was Associate Professor of Botany and Scientific Director of the Harold Lyon Arboretum at the University of Hawaii, and was Assistant Professor at the Universitaet Bayreuth.
Dr. Bussmann's work focuses on ethnobotanical research, and the preservation of traditional knowledge, in Bolivia, Peru, the Caucasus, Africa and Levant.
Dr. Narel Paniagua-Zambrana
Ilia State University
Ethno-Biology and Socio-Ecology
Room 310, Building F
5 Cholokashvili Ave.
Tbilisi 0162
Georgia
Narel.Paniagua@iliauni.edu.ge
Prof. Dr. Zaal Kikvidze
Ilia State University
Ethno-Biology and Socio-Ecology
Room 310, Building F
5 Cholokashvili Ave.
Tbilisi 0162
Georgia
Cell. +995-591217773
Zaal.Kikvidze@iliauni.edu.ge
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
雷納·W·布斯曼博士 是一位民族植物學家和植被生態學家，也是喬治亞州第比利斯伊利亞國立大學植物學系民族植物學部的共同創辦人。在此之前，他曾擔任密蘇里植物園威廉·L·布朗中心的主任，並在德州大學奧斯汀分校擔任地理與環境研究員，曾任夏威夷大學植物學副教授及哈羅德·萊昂樹木園的科學主任，並在拜羅伊特大學擔任助理教授。
布斯曼博士的研究重點是民族植物學研究以及保護玻利維亞、秘魯、高加索、非洲和黎凡特的傳統知識。
納雷爾·帕尼亞瓜-贊布拉納博士
伊利亞國立大學
民族生物學與社會生態學
F棟310室
喬洛卡什維利大街5號
第比利斯 0162
喬治亞
Narel.Paniagua@iliauni.edu.ge
扎爾·基克維澤教授
伊利亞國立大學
民族生物學與社會生態學
F棟310室
喬洛卡什維利大街5號
第比利斯 0162
喬治亞
手機: +995-591217773
Zaal.Kikvidze@iliauni.edu.ge
