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SUBMITTER: Diaz-Reviriego I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5120019 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Díaz-Reviriego Isabel I Fernández-Llamazares Álvaro Á Salpeteur Matthieu M Howard Patricia L PL Reyes-García Victoria V
Ambio 20161201 Suppl 3
Local medical systems are key elements of social-ecological systems as they provide culturally appropriate and locally accessible health care options, especially for populations with scarce access to biomedicine. The adaptive capacity of local medical systems generally rests on two pillars: species diversity and a robust local knowledge system, both threatened by local and global environmental change. We first present a conceptual framework to guide the assessment of knowledge diversity and redu ...[more]