Según estimaciones de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, más del 80% de la población
mundial, especialmente en los países en desarrollo, utiliza tratamientos tradicionales a …

A thorough review concerning palm uses in tropical rainforests of north-western South
America was carried out to understand patterns of palm use throughout ecoregions …

Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting
stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world's leading ethnobotanists argue that …

Ethnobotany, the study of the classification, use and management of plants by people, draws
on a range of disciplines, including natural and social sciences, to show how conservation of …

This paper describes a new, simple, quantitative technique for evaluating the relative
usefulness of plants to people. The technique is then compared to the quantitative …

Its wise and sensitive approach to working with local people will be relevant in situations
throughout the world.'ECOS'The numerous diagrams, tables of data, information flow charts …

Politicians and scientists alike now agree that a priority list of global centres for
preservationof biological diversity is required. Diversity has generally been measured only …

Abstract Cultural Importance Indices: A Comparative Analysis Based on the Useful Wild
Plants of Southern Cantabria (Northern Spain). This paper compares four indices based on …

The Ka'apor people are small-scale, village-level swidden horticulturalists of the extreme
eastern Amazonian state of Maranhão. The first 2 chapters give an introduction and …

We present results of applying a simple technique to statistically test several hypotheses in
ethnobotany, using plant use data from non-indigenous people in southeast Peru …