Explaining the resurgent popularity of the wild: Motivations for wild plant gathering in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Schunko, Christoph ^a   Grasser, Susanne ^a   Vogl, Christian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Biosphere reserve; Ethnobotany; Europe; Local knowledge; Motivations; Participatory research; Principal component analysis; Wild plant gathering

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRIA; CLASSIFICATION; EDIBLE PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTIVATION; NATURAL RESOURCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOTIVATION; NATURAL RESOURCES; PLANTS, EDIBLE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934325772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13002-015-0032-4     Document Type: Article

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