Society for Ethnobotany

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Society for Ethnobotany
AbbreviationSEB
Formation1959;65 years ago (1959)
PurposeFurthering ethnobotany
Region
Worldwide
Official language
English
President
Heike Vibrans
Main organ
Council
Website www.ethnobotany.org
Formerly called
Society for Economic Botany

The Society for Ethnobotany (formerly Society for Economic Botany) is an international learned society covering the fields of ethnobotany and economic botany. It was established in 1959. In 2022 the Society voted to change its name from the Society for Economic Botany to the Society for Ethnobotany, going into effect in June 2023. Its official journal is Economic Botany , published on their behalf by Springer Science+Business Media and the New York Botanical Garden Press. [1] The society also publishes a biannual newsletter, Plants and People. [2] The society organizes annual meetings at different locations around the world, where it awards the prize of Distinguished Ethnobotanist to particularly meritorious individuals. [3] [4]

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Distinguished Ethnobotanist prize

In 2022 the Society voted to change the name of this award to the Distinguished Ethnobotanist award, going into effect in June 2023. Recent recipients of the Distinguished Economic Botanist prize include: [4]

Past presidents

Past presidents of the society include: [5]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ina Vandebroek</span> Ethnobotanist

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Brian Morey Boom is an American botanist who specializes in the flora of the Guianas and the Caribbean, the family Rubiaceae, ethnobotany, and economic botany.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scott Alan Mori</span> American botanist and plant collector

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Bixler Heiser</span> American botanist and ethnobotanist

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Jeffrey Balick</span>

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Grenville 'Gren' Llewellyn Lucas was a British botanist, conservationist, and Keeper of the Herbarium and Library at Kew Gardens.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rainer W. Bussmann</span> German botanist and vegetation ecologist (born 1967)

Rainer W. Bussmann is a German botanist and vegetation ecologist, specializing in ethnobotany and ethnobiology, wild food plants, wild crop relatives, climate change, gastronomic botany and preservation of traditional knowledge in the Andes, the Caucasus and the Himalayas. He has worked at the University of Bayreuth, University of Hawaii, University of Texas, the Missouri Botanical Garden, Ilia State University and the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe; he has founded several international non-governmental organizations, including Nature and Culture International, Saving Knowledge, and Ethnomont.

References

  1. "Economic Botany". Springer Science+Business Media . Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  2. "Plants and People". Society for Economic Botany. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  3. "Two botanists recognised as Distinguished Economic Botanists by the Society of Economic Botany". Botanic Gardens Conservation International . Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  4. 1 2 "Distinguished Ethnobotanists". Society for Ethnobotany. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  5. "Society Officers". Society for Ethnobotany. Retrieved 12 June 2023.