Climate change is one of the most urgent issues of concern as its effects are already manifesting in various ways. Public risk perception is vital for elucidating the factors influencing climate change mitigation and ...

Ethnobotanical field research with a focus on wild plants was conducted in 7 villages in two different regions in Kurdistan of Iran among Kurdish people, through 27 interviews with local people of those villages. 49 ...

After the second world war Germany was divided in two different countries. Thereby one interrelated population was split up and lived under circumstances mainly dominated by their respective protective powers. Since knowledge ...

Food is in the centre of everybody’s life. The interests between food, sociology and the environment are increasing years after years. This thesis aims to determine if a university exchange program between different countries ...

Biocultural diversity is fundamental in understanding the interactive pathways between people and the forest. The foundation for these various pathways is forest functions and values such as productive, cultural, social, ...

This research has a twofold objective. It first aims at understanding how indigenous inhabitants of a specific region in the Levant (Middle Eastern Peninsula - Lebanon) deal with, and harvest the benefits of their natural ...

Overview Laguna lake region, the biggest inland body of freshwater in the Philippines, where the fishery sector has become an important economic contributor locally and nationally. Currently, it is experiencing many ...

This study examines biocultural diversity hazards from fossil fuel exploitation in Sindh Province, Pakistan. The goal of study is to identify current and future risks, analyze ecological, social, and economic implications, ...

This work is dedicated to the medicinal plants popularization based on the materials of the local newspaper "Pechorskaya Pravda" published in the Pechorsky District, a subdivision of Pskov Oblast located in North-West ...

There has been increasing interest on studying and identifying the immigrant’s food beliefs, dietary changes, medicinal perception of food, and acculturation. It will be useful to study the knowledge about traditional ...