Bridges Between Tradition and Innovation in Ethnomedicine Fostering Local Development Through Community-Based Enterprises in India /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Torri, Maria Costanza (Συγγραφέας), Herrmann, Thora Martina (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Medicine.; Sustainable development.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Human geography.; Sustainable Development.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Human Geography.; Sociology, general.

Community-based enterprises are the result of a process in which the community acts entrepreneurially to create and operate a new enterprise embedded in its existing social structure and network. This book argues that community-based enterprise could represent a strategy for fostering sustainable lo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• 1. The Entrepreneurship and the Role of Local Communities
• 2. Traditional Ethnobiological Knowledge and Bioprospecting
• 3. The Gram Mooligai Limited Company (GMCL) – An Alternative Bioprospecting and Development Model: Constitution, Structure and Its Functioning
• 4. Ethnomedicine, Capacity Development and Innovation System Through GMCL
• 5. GMCL, The Supply Chain and The Final Market
• The Impact of GMCL On Indigenous Communities
• The Impact of GMCL On Indigenous Communities
• Conclusion
• Index.