This page has only limited features, please log in for full access.

Dr. Christoph Schunko
Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Life Science Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Basic Info


Research Keywords & Expertise

0 Ethnobotany
0 Organic Farming
0 Traditional Knowledge
0 Non-Timber forest products
0 local knowledge

Fingerprints

Wild plant gathering
local knowledge
Organic Farming
Wild foods
Traditional Knowledge
Non-Timber forest products

Honors and Awards

The user has no records in this section


Career Timeline

The user has no records in this section.


Short Biography

The user biography is not available.
Following
Followers
Co Authors
The list of users this user is following is empty.
Following: 0 users

Feed

Journal article
Published: 28 April 2021 in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Wild food foraging in urban areas can have considerable benefits, but concerns have been raised by public authorities about its potential negative ecological impacts. In this study, our aim was to explore experts’ perspectives on the foraging practices that prevent, limit, or cause negative ecological impacts in urban areas, and how different levels of local ecological knowledge among foragers translate into the (non-)adoption of preventive or limiting measures. We conducted twenty-one semi-structured expert interviews with urban foragers, environmental educators, managers of public urban green spaces, open space planners and representatives of research institutions and non-governmental institutions in Vienna, Austria, and analysed the data using qualitative content analysis. A range of preventive, limiting, and damaging practices were reported as taking place at the same time. The ecological impact of foraging practices related to the selection of plant species and foraging locations, the quantities foraged, the foraging techniques applied, foraging dates and the care taken when foraging. The experts suggested that two different types of impacts can be harmful: first, urban foragers can cause negative ecological impacts to plant populations if they are not familiar with the species being foraged or with foraging in public urban green spaces; second, urban foragers can harm the integrity of public urban green spaces in foraging hotspots in particular. The biospheric versus utilitarian mindsets of urban foragers and their nature relatedness were also associated with the ecological impacts. We argue that medium and long-term measures to limit damage to urban plant populations should include population studies of plant populations observed to be at risk, clear legal frameworks for wild plant foraging, and a revitalisation of the declining traditional transmission of local ecological knowledge combined with comprehensive and innovative educational measures.

ACS Style

Christoph Schunko; Anna-Sophie Wild; Anjoulie Brandner. Exploring and limiting the ecological impacts of urban wild food foraging in Vienna, Austria. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 2021, 62, 127164 .

AMA Style

Christoph Schunko, Anna-Sophie Wild, Anjoulie Brandner. Exploring and limiting the ecological impacts of urban wild food foraging in Vienna, Austria. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 2021; 62 ():127164.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Christoph Schunko; Anna-Sophie Wild; Anjoulie Brandner. 2021. "Exploring and limiting the ecological impacts of urban wild food foraging in Vienna, Austria." Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 62, no. : 127164.

Journal article
Published: 19 June 2020 in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Background In Europe and the Mediterranean, over-exploitation and destructive harvesting techniques have been identified as two critical threats affecting the sustainable harvesting of wild medicinal plant (WMP) species. However, unsustainable harvesting is not an issue everywhere and localized assessments are needed. Local knowledge has been praised for its potential for local short-term assessments. In this study, we aimed to register the known, harvested, and locally utilized WMP species and understand local knowledge of harvesters about the ecological sustainability of WMP harvesting and the perceived changes of WMP availability. Materials and methods This study was conducted on Lemnos island, Greece, in July and August 2018. Sixteen harvesters knowledgeable about gathering and using WMP were chosen through purposeful and snowball sampling. Successive free-lists provided insights on the taxa known, harvested, and utilized by harvesters and subsequent semi-structured interviews served to understand harvesting practices and perceived changes of WMP availability. Participant observation during seven harvesting walks allowed for additional insights and facilitated the collection of voucher specimens. Results In total, 144 different plant taxa were listed as useful and 81 had been harvested in the prior 4 years. Medicinal applications were mainly related to digestive and respiratory system issues. A number of favorable harvesting practices suggested a high potential towards an ecologically sustainable harvest. Although, a decreased availability for certain plant taxa and harvesting sites was reported and mainly attributed to external factors such as pollution, unusually dry weather, intentional pastureland burning or chemicals in agriculture, but also destructive harvesting by less knowledgeable harvesters. Conclusions Knowledgeable harvesters of Lemnos gather and use a considerable number of WMP taxa and possess local knowledge that supports an ecologically sustainable harvest. However, certain plant taxa and areas of the island were indicated to be under pressure from harvesting, unusual climatic conditions, and agricultural practices. Our approach confirmed that local knowledge should be taken into account for assessing the sustainability of WMP harvesting.

ACS Style

Dimitrios Papageorgiou; Penelope J. Bebeli; Maria Panitsa; Christoph Schunko. Local knowledge about sustainable harvesting and availability of wild medicinal plant species in Lemnos island, Greece. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2020, 16, 1 -23.

AMA Style

Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Penelope J. Bebeli, Maria Panitsa, Christoph Schunko. Local knowledge about sustainable harvesting and availability of wild medicinal plant species in Lemnos island, Greece. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2020; 16 (1):1-23.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Dimitrios Papageorgiou; Penelope J. Bebeli; Maria Panitsa; Christoph Schunko. 2020. "Local knowledge about sustainable harvesting and availability of wild medicinal plant species in Lemnos island, Greece." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 16, no. 1: 1-23.

Erratum
Published: 03 June 2020 in Food Quality and Preference
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Organically-certified wild plant foods are rarely addressed in scientific or public discourses on organic food even though 30% of the world’s organically-certified land is dedicated to wild plant gathering. This oversight may leave organic consumers unaware of the market relevance of wild plant foods. The aim of this study was therefore to understand organic consumers’ attitudes, knowledge and purchasing and gathering practices with respect to wild plant foods, and how sociodemographic variables and attitudes can predict knowledge and practices. A purposive sample was drawn from 22 urban and rural food markets across Austria and 497 organic consumers were interviewed using successive freelists and four-point Likert scale questions on attitudes. Data were analysed using exploratory factor analysis and multiple linear regressions. Organic consumers knew a median of nine wild food plants, and reported five as being gathered and one as being purchased. They valued food quality and the responsible harvest of wild food plants, but assigned them a low economic relevance, with some respondents sceptical about their suitability as food. Rural residence, a higher share of organic consumption and a greater emphasis on responsible harvesting predicted knowledge and gathering of a larger number of plant species. These results confirm that organic consumers know, gather and have positive attitudes with respect to wild plant foods, although they are hardly aware about their market relevance. We argue that consumers need to be better informed about the wild origin of food ingredients and the added value of organic certification of wild plant foods.

ACS Style

Christoph Schunko; Christian R Vogl. Factors determining organic consumers’ knowledge and practices with respect to wild plant foods: A countrywide study in Austria. Food Quality and Preference 2020, 85, 103960 .

AMA Style

Christoph Schunko, Christian R Vogl. Factors determining organic consumers’ knowledge and practices with respect to wild plant foods: A countrywide study in Austria. Food Quality and Preference. 2020; 85 ():103960.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Christoph Schunko; Christian R Vogl. 2020. "Factors determining organic consumers’ knowledge and practices with respect to wild plant foods: A countrywide study in Austria." Food Quality and Preference 85, no. : 103960.

Journal article
Published: 24 December 2019 in Food Quality and Preference
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Organic consumers attach different characteristics to wild versus cultivated foods. Organic consumers are unaware of the market relevance of wild plant foods. Labelling of wild ingredients is needed to raise awareness of wild plant foods. Organic consumers barely differentiate between organic and non-organic wild food. Better consumer information is needed about added value of organic certification.

ACS Style

Christoph Schunko; Christian R Vogl. Factors determining organic consumers’ knowledge and practices with respect to wild plant foods: A countrywide study in Austria. Food Quality and Preference 2019, 82, 103868 .

AMA Style

Christoph Schunko, Christian R Vogl. Factors determining organic consumers’ knowledge and practices with respect to wild plant foods: A countrywide study in Austria. Food Quality and Preference. 2019; 82 ():103868.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Christoph Schunko; Christian R Vogl. 2019. "Factors determining organic consumers’ knowledge and practices with respect to wild plant foods: A countrywide study in Austria." Food Quality and Preference 82, no. : 103868.

Journal article
Published: 05 April 2019 in Sustainability
Reads 0
Downloads 0

The gathering and commercialisation of non-timber forest products (NTFP) in Europe has repeatedly been praised for its potential to support rural development. However, political support mechanisms explicitly targeting NTFP remain underdeveloped. In this study, we aimed to contribute to the design of support mechanisms by understanding the factors that influence the commercialisation of wild plants by organic farmers. We first developed a conceptual framework based on fifteen factors and then applied the framework to a case study in South Tyrol (Alto Adige), Italy. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with all fourteen members of the Vereinigung Südtiroler Kräuteranbauer (Associazione Coltivatori Sudtirolesi Piante Officinali), who commercialised wild plant species, and the data were then analysed using qualitative content analysis. Agricultural intensification, pesticide drift, limited access to gathering sites suitable for organic certification, legal restrictions, lack of consumer awareness about the additional value of organic wild plant certification, and limited product diversity were perceived as limiting factors; management techniques in organic farming, organic certification, a trend for wild, regional and healthy foods, the availability of training, and favourable cultural values and attitudes towards wild plant gathering were perceived as supportive. This study offers a comprehensive understanding of the many diverse factors that may influence wild plant commercialisation in Europe and beyond and provides guidance on how political support mechanisms could unlock the much heralded potential of wild plant commercialisation for rural development.

ACS Style

Christoph Schunko; Sarah Lechthaler; Christian Vogl. Conceptualising the Factors that Influence the Commercialisation of Non-Timber Forest Products: The Case of Wild Plant Gathering by Organic Herb Farmers in South Tyrol (Italy). Sustainability 2019, 11, 2028 .

AMA Style

Christoph Schunko, Sarah Lechthaler, Christian Vogl. Conceptualising the Factors that Influence the Commercialisation of Non-Timber Forest Products: The Case of Wild Plant Gathering by Organic Herb Farmers in South Tyrol (Italy). Sustainability. 2019; 11 (7):2028.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Christoph Schunko; Sarah Lechthaler; Christian Vogl. 2019. "Conceptualising the Factors that Influence the Commercialisation of Non-Timber Forest Products: The Case of Wild Plant Gathering by Organic Herb Farmers in South Tyrol (Italy)." Sustainability 11, no. 7: 2028.

Journal article
Published: 31 October 2018 in Sustainability
Reads 0
Downloads 0

European countries are split over the appreciation of wild berries, fruits, mushrooms, and herbs. While some countries provide public statistics on wild plants, others seem to neglect wild plant gathering and commercialization. In this study, we aimed to understand if wild plant commercialization is neglected or irrelevant in Austria, a country that does not provide statistics. We focus on organic producers, because organic certification of wild plant gathering might have potential for countering frequent concerns about commercial gathering, including destructive gathering and overharvesting. Using a mixed-methods approach with a concurrent triangulation design, databases of six organic certification bodies were analysed concurrently with semi-structured expert interviews of their representatives. We found that organic certification for gathering was issued to 1.5% of organic producers in the year 2016 in Austria and is relevant for three distinct gatherer types: regular, diversified, and single-plant gatherers. Organic gathering is most frequently part of agricultural or horticultural farms and rarely an isolated commercial activity. It is related to mixed farming, deepening on-farm diversification, and contributes to maintaining traditions, as well as the local socio-ecological memory of wild plant products. Organic wild plants are directly marketed to consumers as traditional and innovative products, but also supplied to mass markets. We conclude that from a socio-cultural perspective and a focus on regional economies, organic gathering is neglected in Austria, whereas from an income perspective, wild plant gathering seems to be indeed relevant for few organic producers, although exhibiting potential.

ACS Style

Christoph Schunko; Christian R. Vogl. Is the Commercialization of Wild Plants by Organic Producers in Austria Neglected or Irrelevant? Sustainability 2018, 10, 3989 .

AMA Style

Christoph Schunko, Christian R. Vogl. Is the Commercialization of Wild Plants by Organic Producers in Austria Neglected or Irrelevant? Sustainability. 2018; 10 (11):3989.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Christoph Schunko; Christian R. Vogl. 2018. "Is the Commercialization of Wild Plants by Organic Producers in Austria Neglected or Irrelevant?" Sustainability 10, no. 11: 3989.

Book chapter
Published: 11 January 2017 in Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture
Reads 0
Downloads 0
ACS Style

Christian R. Vogl; Susanne Kummer; Friedrich Leitgeb; Christoph Schunko; Magdalena Aigner. Chapter 6 Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments. Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture 2017, 97 -114.

AMA Style

Christian R. Vogl, Susanne Kummer, Friedrich Leitgeb, Christoph Schunko, Magdalena Aigner. Chapter 6 Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments. Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture. 2017; ():97-114.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Christian R. Vogl; Susanne Kummer; Friedrich Leitgeb; Christoph Schunko; Magdalena Aigner. 2017. "Chapter 6 Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments." Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture , no. : 97-114.

Journal article
Published: 10 October 2016 in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Ethically sound research in applied ethnobiology should benefit local communities by giving them full access to research processes and results. Participatory research may ensure such access, but there has been little discussion on methodological details of participatory approaches in ethnobiological research. This paper presents and discusses the research processes and methods developed in the course of a three-year research project on wild plant gathering, the involvement of children as co-researchers and the project's indications for local impact. Research was conducted in the Grosses Walsertal Biosphere Reserve, Austria, between 2008 and 2010 in four research phases. In phase 1, 36 freelist interviews with local people and participant observation was conducted. In phase 2 school workshops were held in 14 primary school classes and their 189 children interviewed 506 family members with structured questionnaires. In phase 3, 27 children and two researchers co-produced participatory videos. In phase 4 indications for the impact of the project were investigated with questionnaires from ten children and with participant observation. Children participated in various ways in the research process and the scientific output and local impact of the project was linked to the phases, degrees and methods of children's involvement. Children were increasingly involved in the project, from non-participation to decision-making. Scientific output was generated from participatory and non-participatory activities whereas local impact - on personal, familial, communal and institutional levels - was mainly generated through the participatory involvement of children as interviewers and as co-producers of videos. Creating scientific outputs from participatory video is little developed in ethnobiology, whereas bearing potential. As ethnobotanists and ethnobiologists, if we are truly concerned about the impact and benefits of our research processes and results to local communities, the details of the research processes need to be deliberately planned and evaluated and then reported and discussed in academic publications.

ACS Style

Susanne Grasser; Christoph Schunko; Christian Reinhard Vogl. Children as ethnobotanists: methods and local impact of a participatory research project with children on wild plant gathering in the Grosses Walsertal Biosphere Reserve, Austria. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2016, 12, 46 .

AMA Style

Susanne Grasser, Christoph Schunko, Christian Reinhard Vogl. Children as ethnobotanists: methods and local impact of a participatory research project with children on wild plant gathering in the Grosses Walsertal Biosphere Reserve, Austria. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2016; 12 (1):46.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Susanne Grasser; Christoph Schunko; Christian Reinhard Vogl. 2016. "Children as ethnobotanists: methods and local impact of a participatory research project with children on wild plant gathering in the Grosses Walsertal Biosphere Reserve, Austria." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 12, no. 1: 46.

Journal article
Published: 30 June 2015 in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Wild plant gathering becomes again a popular and fashionable activity in Europe after gathering practices have been increasingly abandoned over the last decades. Recent ethnobotanical research documented a diversity of gathering practices from people of diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds who gather in urban and rural areas. Few efforts were though made to study the motivations for gathering wild plants and to understand the resurgent popularity of wild plant gathering. This paper addresses the following research questions: (1) which motivations activate wild plant gatherers? (2) which motivation-types of gatherers exist in the Grosses Walsertal? (3) how do the motivations for gathering relate to the socio-demographic background of gatherers? Field research was conducted in the Grosses Walsertal, Austria in the years 2008 and 2009 in two field research periods. Thirty-six local farmers were first interviewed with semi-structured interviews. The motivations identified in these interviews were then included in a structured questionnaire, which was used to interview 353 residents of the valley. Pupils of local schools participated in the data collection as interviewers. Principal Component Analysis was used to categorize the motivations and to identify motivation-types of wild plant gatherers. Generalized Linear Models were calculated to identify relations between motivations and the socio-demographic background of gatherers. The respondents listed 13 different motivations for gathering wild plants and four motivations for not gathering. These 17 motivations were grouped in five motivation-types of wild plant gatherers, which are in decreasing importance: product quality, fun, tradition, not-gathering, income. Women, older respondents and homegardeners gather wild plants more often for fun; older respondents gather more often for maintaining traditions; non-homegardeners more frequently mention motivations for not gathering. The resurgent popularity of wild plant gathering comes along with an internalization of motivations: the main motivations for wild plant gathering changed from the external extrinsic motivation of gathering because of necessity towards the internalized extrinsic motivation of gathering for the highly esteemed product quality and the intrinsic motivation of gathering for the pleasure of the activity itself. This internalization of motivations supports the persistence of wild plant gathering, a positive self-perception of gatherers and good quality of engagement with wild plant gathering.

ACS Style

Christoph Schunko; Susanne Grasser; Christian R. Vogl. Explaining the resurgent popularity of the wild: motivations for wild plant gathering in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2015, 11, 1 -15.

AMA Style

Christoph Schunko, Susanne Grasser, Christian R. Vogl. Explaining the resurgent popularity of the wild: motivations for wild plant gathering in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2015; 11 (1):1-15.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Christoph Schunko; Susanne Grasser; Christian R. Vogl. 2015. "Explaining the resurgent popularity of the wild: motivations for wild plant gathering in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 11, no. 1: 1-15.

Journal article
Published: 07 May 2015 in Sustainable Agriculture Research
Reads 0
Downloads 0

The creative process that leads to farmers’ innovations is rarely studied or described precisely in agricultural sciences. For academic scientists, obvious limitations of farmers’ experiments are e.g. precision, reliability, robustness, accuracy, validity or the correct analysis of cause and effect. Nevertheless, we propose that ‘farmers’ experiments’ underpin innovations that keep organic farming locally tuned for sustainability and adaptable to changing economic, social and ecological conditions. We first researched the structure and role of farmers’ experiments by conducting semi-structured interviews of 47 organic farmers in Austria and 72 organic/agroecology farmers in Cuba in 2007 and 2008. Seventysix more structured interviews explored the topics and methods used by Austrian farmers that were ‘trying something’. Farmers engaged in activities that can be labelled as farmers experiments because these activities include considerable planning, manipulating variables, monitoring effects and communicating results. In Austria and Cuba 487 and 370 individual topics, respectively, were mentioned for experimenting by the respondents. These included topics like the introduction of new species or varieties, testing various ways of commercialization or the testing of alternative remedies. Two thirds (Austria) and one third (Cuba) of the farmers who experimented had an explicit mental or written plan before starting. In both countries, the majority of the farmers stated that they set up their experiments first on a small scale and expanded them if the outcome of the experiments was satisfactory. Repetitions were done by running experiments in subsequent years and the majority of the farmers monitored the experiments regularly. In both countries, many experiments were not discrete actions but nested in time and space. For further research on learning and innovation in organic farming we propose an explicit appreciation of farmers’ experiments, encouraging further in-depth research on the details of the farmers’ experimental process and encouraging the inclusion of farmers’ experiments in strategies for innovation in organic and non organic farming. Strategic research and innovation agendas for organic farming would benefit from including organic farmers as co-researchers in all steps of the research process in order to encourage co-learning between academic scientists and organic farmers.

ACS Style

Christian Reinhard Vogl; Susanne Kummer; Friedrich Leitgeb; Christoph Schunko; Magdalena Aigner. Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments. Sustainable Agriculture Research 2015, 4, 1 .

AMA Style

Christian Reinhard Vogl, Susanne Kummer, Friedrich Leitgeb, Christoph Schunko, Magdalena Aigner. Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments. Sustainable Agriculture Research. 2015; 4 (3):1.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Christian Reinhard Vogl; Susanne Kummer; Friedrich Leitgeb; Christoph Schunko; Magdalena Aigner. 2015. "Keeping the Actors in the Organic System Learning: The Role of Organic Farmers’ Experiments." Sustainable Agriculture Research 4, no. 3: 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2015 in Ecology and Society
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Ruiz-Mallén, I., C. Schunko, E. Corbera, M. Rös, and V. Reyes-García. 2015. Meanings, drivers, and motivations for community-based conservation in Latin America. Ecology and Society 20(3):33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07733-200333

ACS Style

Isabel Ruiz-Mallén; Christoph Schunko; Esteve Corbera; Matthias Rös; Victoria Reyes-García. Meanings, drivers, and motivations for community-based conservation in Latin America. Ecology and Society 2015, 20, 1 .

AMA Style

Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Christoph Schunko, Esteve Corbera, Matthias Rös, Victoria Reyes-García. Meanings, drivers, and motivations for community-based conservation in Latin America. Ecology and Society. 2015; 20 (3):1.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Isabel Ruiz-Mallén; Christoph Schunko; Esteve Corbera; Matthias Rös; Victoria Reyes-García. 2015. "Meanings, drivers, and motivations for community-based conservation in Latin America." Ecology and Society 20, no. 3: 1.

Comparative study
Published: 01 January 2012 in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Reads 0
Downloads 0

In ethnobotanical research, the investigation into traditional knowledge of medicinal plants in the context of migration has been of increasing interest in recent decades since it is influenced and changed by new environmental and social conditions. It most likely undergoes transformation processes to match the different living circumstances in the new location. This study compares the traditional knowledge of medicinal plants held by Tyroleans – and their descendants – who emigrated to Australia, Brazil and Peru at different time scales. The study’s findings allow a discussion of the complexities and dynamics that influence this knowledge within the context of long-distance migration.

ACS Style

Heidemarie Pirker; Ruth Haselmair; Elisabeth Kuhn; Christoph Schunko; Christian R Vogl. Transformation of traditional knowledge of medicinal plants: the case of Tyroleans (Austria) who migrated to Australia, Brazil and Peru. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2012, 8, 44 -44.

AMA Style

Heidemarie Pirker, Ruth Haselmair, Elisabeth Kuhn, Christoph Schunko, Christian R Vogl. Transformation of traditional knowledge of medicinal plants: the case of Tyroleans (Austria) who migrated to Australia, Brazil and Peru. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2012; 8 (1):44-44.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Heidemarie Pirker; Ruth Haselmair; Elisabeth Kuhn; Christoph Schunko; Christian R Vogl. 2012. "Transformation of traditional knowledge of medicinal plants: the case of Tyroleans (Austria) who migrated to Australia, Brazil and Peru." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 8, no. 1: 44-44.

Comparative study
Published: 01 January 2012 in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Leading scholars in ethnobiology and ethnomedicine continuously stress the need for moving beyond the bare description of local knowledge and to additionally analyse and theorise about the characteristics and dynamics of human interactions with plants and related local knowledge. Analyses of the variation of local knowledge are thereby perceived as minimal standard. In this study we investigate the distribution and variation of wild plant knowledge in five domains: food, drinks, human medicine, veterinary medicine and customs. We assess relations between the wild plant knowledge of informants and their socio-demographic as well as geographic background.

ACS Style

Christoph Schunko; Susanne Grasser; Christian Reinhard Vogl. Intracultural variation of knowledge about wild plant uses in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal (Austria). Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2012, 8, 23 -23.

AMA Style

Christoph Schunko, Susanne Grasser, Christian Reinhard Vogl. Intracultural variation of knowledge about wild plant uses in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal (Austria). Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2012; 8 (1):23-23.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Christoph Schunko; Susanne Grasser; Christian Reinhard Vogl. 2012. "Intracultural variation of knowledge about wild plant uses in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal (Austria)." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 8, no. 1: 23-23.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2012 in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Wild plant gathering is an essential element in livelihood strategies all over the world. However due to changing circumstances in Europe, the reason for gathering has altered from one of necessity in the past to a pleasurable activity today. Wild plant gathering has therefore also received renewed attention as a form of intangible cultural heritage expressing local preferences, habits and man’s relationship with nature.

ACS Style

Susanne Grasser; Christoph Schunko; Christian Reinhard Vogl. Gathering “tea” – from necessity to connectedness with nature. Local knowledge about wild plant gathering in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal (Austria). Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2012, 8, 31 -31.

AMA Style

Susanne Grasser, Christoph Schunko, Christian Reinhard Vogl. Gathering “tea” – from necessity to connectedness with nature. Local knowledge about wild plant gathering in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal (Austria). Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2012; 8 (1):31-31.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Susanne Grasser; Christoph Schunko; Christian Reinhard Vogl. 2012. "Gathering “tea” – from necessity to connectedness with nature. Local knowledge about wild plant gathering in the Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal (Austria)." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 8, no. 1: 31-31.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2010 in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Changing lifestyles have recently caused a severe reduction of the gathering of wild food plants. Knowledge about wild food plants and the local environment becomes lost when plants are no longer gathered. In Central Europe popular scientific publications have tried to counter this trend. However, detailed and systematic scientific investigations in distinct regions are needed to understand and preserve wild food uses. This study aims to contribute to these investigations.

ACS Style

Christoph Schunko; Christian R. Vogl. Organic farmers use of wild food plants and fungi in a hilly area in Styria (Austria). Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2010, 6, 17 -17.

AMA Style

Christoph Schunko, Christian R. Vogl. Organic farmers use of wild food plants and fungi in a hilly area in Styria (Austria). Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2010; 6 (1):17-17.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Christoph Schunko; Christian R. Vogl. 2010. "Organic farmers use of wild food plants and fungi in a hilly area in Styria (Austria)." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 6, no. 1: 17-17.