Efforts have been dedicated to the understanding of social-ecological systems, an important
focus in ethnobiological studies. In particular, ethnobiological investigations have found …

Resilience is related to the ability of a system to adjust to disturbances. The Utilitarian
Redundancy Model has emerged as a tool for investigating the resilience of local medical …

Local medical systems (LMSs) are complex and dynamic, encompassing local perceptions
of diseases, prevention and treatment strategies, and evaluations of therapeutic responses …

Local medical systems are key elements of social-ecological systems as they provide
culturally appropriate and locally accessible health care options, especially for populations …

Cross-border and cross-cultural ethnomedicine are novel ways to address the evolution of
local ecological knowledge. As is widely acknowledged, ethnomedicinal knowledge is not …

Free listing is a methodological tool that is widely used in various scientific disciplines. A
typical assumption of this approach is that individual lists reflect a subset of total knowledge …

The presence of mainstream medicine in local medical systems inserts a set of external
treatments and concepts that generate adjustments in the local conceptions of health and …

We are experiencing an era of great and rapid changes that directly affect biocultural
systems. Ethnomedical systems are complex social-ecological structures and processes …

The traditional healthcare systems (THS) of communities in two different regions of Brazil
were investigated through the lens of social-ecological resilience, assuming that the …

Studies on the biocultural variation of medicinal plant use in urban contexts are necessary
for public health purposes. We asked: What are the main supply sites of medicinal plants in …