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Political ecology concerns the interconnections among political, economic, and culture processes centering on environmental issues. Ethnobiologists pursue research in cross-cultural contexts relating to human-environmental interactions and hold ecological understanding about environmental heritage in societies in which they live and do research. In this chapter, we summarize three case studies that explore the political ecological dimensions of ethnobiological research.
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We thank Ulysses Albuquerque for the opportunity to write this chapter. The pottery-residue research was supported by National Science Foundation Archaeometry Technical Development Grant No. 1112615.
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Wolverton, S., Nolan, J.M., Fry, M. (2016). Political Ecology and Ethnobiology. In: Albuquerque, U., Nóbrega Alves, R. (eds) Introduction to Ethnobiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28155-1_12
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