Ethnobotany of the mountain regions of Mexico
Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that traditional knowledge is always in flux and adapti...
| Other Authors: | Casas, Alejandro, Blancas Vázquez, José Juan., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
2023.
Cham, Switzerland : 2023. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Part I: Regions
- Human Cultures and Plant Diversity in the Mountains of Mexico: An Introduction
- Introduction
- The Biocultural Diversity of the Mountains of Mexico
- The Book
- References
- Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Mexico: Use, Management, and Other Interactions Between People and Plants
- Introduction
- Research Strategy
- BADEPLAM
- Field Studies
- Ethnobotanical Diversity of Mexico
- Diversity of Management Forms
- Diversity of Domestication Processes
- Perspectives
- Appendix 1.
- Subhumid and Semiarid Mountains of Mexico and Agrosilviculture
- Tempered-Subhumid Transition and Agroforestry Management
- Agrosylviculture of Palms: Landscape Traditional Management
- Interactionships Between Habitants and Diversity in Semiarid Agroforestry Complexes
- Metepantles: Agroforestry Terraces and Semiterrace of a Template-Semiarid Zone of Tlaxcala, Mexico
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1 (IPNI)
- Appendix 2
- References
- Wild, Weedy and Domesticated Plants for Food Security and Sovereignty
- Introduction
- General Research Methods
- La Montaña de Guerrero Region.
- The Mazahua of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
- The Rarmuri of Cuiteco
- Peoples of the Tehuacn-Cuicatln Biosphere Reserve
- Discussion
- Biocultural Diversity and Diversity of Food Patterns
- References
- Ethnobotany in the Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico: Mountains As Barriers, Conduits, and Generators of Plant-People Interactions and...
- Introduction
- Rarmuri: Guardians of the Sierra Tarahumara
- Aspects of Interactions and Relationships Between the Rarmuri and Their Plant-world Environment
- Benefits of Ethnobotanical Research in the Sierra Tarahumara
- Conclusion.
- Appendix 1
- References
- Rarmuri Ethnobotany: Peasant Subsistence and Biodiversity Conservation at Local Scale
- Introduction
- The Sierra Tarahumara
- The Ejido Cuiteco
- Research Methods
- Plant Species Used in Cuiteco
- Environmental Units
- Rarmuri Economy and Plant Resources
- Timber Commercial Extraction
- Firewood
- Agriculture
- Noncrop Edible Plants
- Medicinal
- Conclusion
- References
- Wild Food and Traditional Knowledge of the Kumiai from Baja California
- Introduction: Wild Food as Cultural Heritage
- From the High Sierra to the Coast: The Wild Food Corridor.