Wild food and medicinal plants used in the Mountainous Albanian North, Northeast, and East: A comparison

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 183-194

  Pieroni, Andrea ^a   Quave, Cassandra L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Albania; Health strategies; Resilience; Traditional environmental knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929861234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1492-0_10     Document Type: Chapter

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