Ethnobotanical Studies of Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

ISBN-13: 9783659532092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 132 str.

Khan Tika

Opis

Plants are the VISHNOs of our ecosystem. Hindus believe that the Vishnu (god) sustains the universe. Several traditional communities around the world and cultures today have profound imprints of people-plant interaction. Plants have been the only source and inspiration for treatment and healing of ailments. Modern scientific scholarship realizes that ethnobotany is one of the potential basis for the discovery of new, alternate and safe drugs for most pressing diseases like CANCER etc. This book brings folk wisdom of traditional communities from Shinaki area of famous HUNZA Valley. Research area falls within the laps of inaccessible mighty Karakorum Mountains which is considered to be taxonomically complex and rich for biodiversity. Modern ignorance has led to extinction of several species and lot of ethnobotanical knowledge. Book will be useful for ethnobotanists, conservationists, pharmacists, phytochemists, taxonomists, zoopharmacologists, botanists and students of biology etc.

O autorze

Author is a faculty and PhD scholar (Biotechnology) at KI University, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Got his MPhil from QAU, Islamabad. MSc. (distinction) from Peshawar University. Also educated at Aga Khan University and BI Canada. He is a freelance writer, consultant on resource mobilization and impact studies. Also he is a CEDR-UK trained mediator.