Utilitarian redundancy in local medical systems - theoretical and methodological contributions

Utilitarian redundancy in local medical systems - theoretical and methodological contributions

Abstract The utilitarian redundancy model (URM) is one of the recent contributions to ethnobiology. We argue that URM can be applied to access use-pressure on plant species, the resilience of socioecological systems (e.g., local medical systems), cultural keystone species, and the role of exotic spe...

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Main Authors: Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Fabiane da Silva Queiroz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Subjects:
Quantitative Ethnobotany
Data analysis
Local medical systems
Social-ecological systems
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13002-020-00416-x

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