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Health Impacts of Traditional Medicines and Bio-prospecting: A World Scenario Accentuating Bhutan's Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Life without natural products is unimaginable. It has provided mankind with oxygen, water, fire, food, clothing, shelter and medicine. Its public health impact is considerably high, especially of traditional medicines and nature-based modern drugs.
Wangchuk, Phurpa
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Etnobotani dan Tumbuhan Berguna di Cagar Alam Dungus Iwul Bogor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
People's lives around the Nature Reserve (CA) has a very close interaction with the natural resources around them. One of them is the interaction associated with the use of plants (ethnobotany).
Hatta, M. (Mohammad)   +2 more
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Ethnobotany

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Plants are a part of our everyday life and have always been. Ethnobotany is the study of the complex relationship between humans and the plant world found in their surroundings. This discipline has a long history of academic research all over the world. Ethnobotanical research includes the use of plants in all aspects of life, e.g.
Tunon, Håkan   +2 more
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Ethical Issues in Accessing Peoples Knowledge and Innovations: Need for Revisiting Research Protocols with Specific Reference to Low Cost Health Technologies [PDF]

open access: yes
There is a widespread concern all over the world about the emerging tensions in the local, regional and global dialogues on relationship between formal and informal knowledge systems.
Gupta, Anil K.
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From the colonialist to the “autobotanical” approach: the evolution of the subject-object relationship in ethnobotanical research

open access: yesActa Botânica Brasílica
This article explores the evolution of the subject-object relationship in ethnobotanical research. Discussion of the main tendencies of each time period revealed a great distance between subject and object during the beginning of ethnobotany, which ...
Cristina Baldauf
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Grounds for Argument: Local Understandings, Science, and Global Processes in Special Forest Products Harvesting [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
In posing the question Where are the pickers? , Love and Jones suggest that the shifting paradigm in forestry is real and that academia is not leading the shift.
Jones, Eric, Love, Thomas
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