Ethnobotany in the New Europe

Download or read book Ethnobotany in the New Europe written by Manuel Pardo de Santayana and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in environmental anthropology has grown steadily in recent years, reflecting national and international concern about the environment and developing research priorities, This major new international series is a vehicle for publishing up-to-date monographs and edited works on particular issues, themes, places, or peoples which focus on the interrelationship between society, culture, and the environment. Relevant areas include human ecology, the perception and representation of the environment, ethno-ecological knowledge, the human dimension of biodiversity conservation, and the ethnorgraphy of environmental problems. while the underlying ethos of the series will be anthropological, the approach is interdisciplinary. --