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In the present transcribed, edited and annotated talk, expert senior botanist Luis Poveda Álvarez reminds us that we cannot be too careful when guarding our traditional knowledge. Even though some might detect, in his passionate exposition, an old-generation angst of foreign companies stealing local knowledge for profit, his worries do indeed remain quite valid today.
L. Poveda Álvarez is the author of the original talk. M. Ortega-Rodríguez and H. Solís-Sánchez were responsible for transcribing, translating, editing and annotating the talk, including the vignettes; their comments appear within square brackets.
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Poveda Álvarez, L. (2019). Patrimonial Botanical Knowledge in Costa Rica. In: Ortega-Rodríguez, M., Solís-Sánchez, H. (eds) Costa Rican Traditional Knowledge According to Local Experiences. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06146-3_2
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