Sustaining rainforest plants, people and Global health: A model for learning from traditions in holistic health promotion and community based conservation as implemented by Q'eqchi' Maya Healers, Maya Mountains, Belize

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3383-3398

  Rojas, Marco Otarola ^a   Collins, Sean ^b   Cal, Victor ^c   Caal, Francisco ^d   Knight, Kevin ^b   Arnason, John ^b   Poveda, Luis ^a   Sanchez Vindas, Pablo ^a   Pesek, Todd ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Belize Indigenous Training Institute   (Belize)

^d Q'eqchi' Maya Healers Association   (Belize)

^e CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Naturaleza Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological conservation; Cultural conservation; Indigenous garden; Medicinal plants; Q'eqchi' Maya; Sustainability; Traditional botanical knowledge; Traditional healing knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867324524     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2113383     Document Type: Article

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