The use of wild plants for human nutrition during a war: Eastern Bosnia (Western Balkans)

Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans: Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation

Volumn 9781493914920, Issue , 2014, Pages 149-182

  Redžić, Sulejman ^a   Ferrier, Jonathan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Emcarta Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bosnia and Herzegovina (B H); Ethnobotany; Food plants; Food shortage; Human behavior; Human conflicts; Human ecology; Malnutrition; Postwar ethnobotany; Syria; Wartime ethnobotany

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925992521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1492-0_9     Document Type: Chapter

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