Bridges Between Tradition and Innovation in Ethnomedicine : Fostering Local Development Through Community-Based Enterprises in India / by Maria Costanza Torri, Thora Martina Herrmann
データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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著者標目 | *Torri, Maria Costanza author Herrmann, Thora Martina author SpringerLink (Online service) |
出版情報 | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer , 2011 |
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版 | 1st ed. 2011. |
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巻次 | ISBN:9789400711136 |
大きさ | XIII, 222 p : online resource |
一般注記 | Introduction -- 1. The Entrepreneurship and the Role of Local Communities -- 2. Traditional Ethnobiological Knowledge and Bioprospecting -- 3. The Gram Mooligai Limited Company (GMCL) – An Alternative Bioprospecting and Development Model: Constitution, Structure and Its Functioning -- 4. Ethnomedicine, Capacity Development and Innovation System Through GMCL -- 5. GMCL, The Supply Chain and The Final Market -- The Impact of GMCL On Indigenous Communities -- The Impact of GMCL On Indigenous Communities -- Conclusion -- Index Community-based enterprises are the result of a process in which the community acts entrepreneurially to create and operate a new enterprise embedded in its existing social structure and network. This book argues that community-based enterprise could represent a strategy for fostering sustainable local development while at the same time maintaining traditional knowledge in ethnomedicine and conserving the local ecosystems. The overall purpose of this monographic study is to investigate a new entrepreneurial approach which offers an alternative to the mainstream one and to analyze its possible contribution at the grassroots level in the herbal sector, a domain where local communities still play to a large extent a marginalised role. This innovative approach is represented by community-based enterprises (CBEs) active in India. The study of indigenous populations and their different forms of entrepreneurships is not simply an exercise in analysing outliers in the global world-system. Rather, it provides a source for the theoretical and empirical analysis of entrepreneurship relevant to the development of generalisable theory applicable in many environments including, but by no means exclusive to, indigenous communities. This volume analyses the very first community-based enterprise active in the herbal sector in India, the GMCL (Gram Mooligai Company Limited). It demonstrates that the GMCL example provides a unique model of how a community-based enterprise could represent an alternative and promising model for development of local communities. It is an unconventional form of entrepreneurship, in that it is based on regarding collective and individual interests as fundamentally complementary, and views communal values and the notion of the common good as essential elements in venture creation HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1113-6 |
件 名 | LCSH:Sustainable development LCSH:Medicine LCSH:Anthropology LCSH:Human geography LCSH:Sociology FREE:Sustainable Development FREE:Medicine/Public Health, general FREE:Anthropology FREE:Human Geography FREE:Sociology, general |
分 類 | LCC:GE195-199 LCC:GE196 DC23:338.927 |
書誌ID | OB00007618 |
ISBN | 9789400711136 |