Plants and Health New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant Nexus /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Olson, Elizabeth Anne (Editor), Stepp, John Richard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Ethnobiology,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medicine.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Plant physiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Plant Anatomy/Development.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Physiology.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

This volume showcases current ethnobiological accounts of the ways that people use plants to promote human health and well-being. The goal in this volume is to highlight some contemporary examples of how plants are central to various aspects of healthy environments and healthy minds and bodies. Auth...