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Esta coletânea é uma publicação derivada do I Seminário Inter-nacional de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da UNESP de Marília ocorrido em 2015. O evento foi um projeto idealizado pelo corpo discente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, campus de Marília-SP. “Brasil Contemporâneo: perspectivas e desafios” foi a temática que norteou o evento. Sua construção e seleção se deu em virtude aos acontecimentos registrados no meio social desde junho de 2013, sobretudo, as mobilizações e manifestações organizadas nas cidades de grande e médio porte no Brasil, assim como a organização e divulg...
Geralmente, a sociedade desigual brasileira é considerada racista, classista, homofóbica, machista e sexista, ou melhor, heterossexista. Estes predicados sociais, além de outros que podem ser citados, são frequentemente confirmados pelos altos índices de violência que se reproduzem cotidianamente nos mais diversos espaços de sociabilidade e vitimizam determinados corpos banidos historicamente para a inferiorização, coisificação ou para o status de semi-humanidade. Em especial, corpos pretos, trabalhadore(a)s pobres e dissidentes da heteronormatividade parecem (re) existir em um cenário que regularmente precariza as condições materiais de suas persistências. Este livro fala de ...
Volume 9 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, on plants with edible modified stems, roots and bulbs from Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae (tabular) and 32 selected species in Alismataceae, Amaryllidaceae, Apiaceae, Araceae, Araliaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Basellaceae, Brassicaceae and Campanulaceae in detail. This work is of significant interest to medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, botanists, agriculturists, conservationists, and general public. Topics covered include: taxonomy; common/ vernacular names; origin/ distribution; agroecology; edible plant parts/uses; botany; nutritive/medicinal properties, nonedible uses and selected references.
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies—including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever—have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa’s medi...
"This is the second issue in the Global Re-introduction Perspectives series and has been produced in the same standardized format as the previous one. The case-studies are arranged in the following order: Introduction, Goals, Success Indicators, Project Summary, Major Difficulties Faced, Major Lessons Learned, Success of Project with reasons for success or failure. For this second issue we received a total of 72 case-studies compared to 62 in the last issue. These case studies cover the following taxa as follows: invertebrates (9), fish (6), amphibians (5), reptiles (7), birds (13), mammals (20) and plants (12) ... We hope the information presented in this book will provide a broad global perspective on challenges facing re-introduction projects trying to restore biodiversity."--Pritpal S. Soorae.
There is a rapidly growing interest in, and demand for, non-timber forest products (NTFPs). They provide critical resources across the globe fulfilling nutritional, medicinal, financial and cultural needs. However, they have been largely overlooked in mainstream conservation and forestry politics. This volume explains the use and importance of certification and eco-labelling for guaranteeing best management practices of non-timber forest products in the field. Using extensive case studies and global profiles of non-timber forest products, this work not only seeks to further our comprehension of certification processes but also broaden understanding of non-timber forest product management, harvesting and marketing. It should be useful to forest managers, policy-makers and conservation organizations as well as for academics in these areas.
Fresh waters are disproportionately rich in species, and represent global hotspots of biodiversity. However, they are also hotspots of endangerment.
This reference text brings together comprehensive reviews of the latest research in the field of bionanomaterials, with a focus on fundamentals and biomedical applications. Detailed coverage of the classification, properties and synthesis of bionanomaterials is provided to enhance readers' understanding. The book combines new ideas to uplift the advancement of bionanomaterials in biomedical research and provides a valuable reference for researchers and advanced students in the fields of biomaterials, bionanotechnology and bioengineering. The major applications covered include nanobiosensing, nanomedicine, diagnostics, therapeutics, tissue engineering and green bionanotechnology. The properties and applications of synthetic bionanomaterials and molecularly-imprinted polymer-based bionanomaterials are also included.
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