Chapter 1. Ethnobotany in the Balkans: Quo Vadis?
Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave
Part I. From Folk Medicine to the Medicinal Plant Trade
Chapter 2. Ways the Lukomir Highlanders of Bosnia and Herzegovina Treat Diabetes
Jonathan Ferrier, Lana Sačiragic, Eric C.H. Chen, Sabina Trakic, Ammar Saleem, Emira Alikadic, Alain Cuerrier, Michael J. Balick, John T. Arnason, and Sulejman Redzic
Chapter 3. Hungarian Ethnobotanical Studies in Romania
Nóra Papp, Kata Birkás-Frendl, Ágnes Farkas, and Dóra Czégényi
Chapter 4. Bulgarian Medical Ethnobotany: The Power of Plants in Pragmatic and Poetic Frames
Anely Nedelcheva and Stefan Draganov
Chapter 5. Cross-Cultural Ethnobotany of the Sharr Mountains (North-Western Macedonia)
Besnik Rexhepi, Behxhet Mustafa, Avni Hajdari, Jehona Rushidi-Rexhepi, Cassandra L. Quave, and Andrea Pieroni
Chapter 6. An Ethnobotanical and Ethnomedicinal Study on the Use of Wild Medicinal Plants in Rural Areas of Serbia
Snezana Jaric, Miroslava Mitrovic, and Pavle Pavlovic
Chapter 7. Medical Ethnobotanical Studies in Kosovo
Behxhet Mustafa and Avni Hajdari
Part II. Balkan Traditional Plant-Based Foods: Beyond the Ottoman Cuisine
Chapter 8. Wild Food Plants of Dalmatia (Croatia)
Lukasz Luczaj, Katija Dolina, Norma Fressel, and Stjepan Perkovic
Chapter 9. The Use of Wild Plants for Human Nutrition During a War: Eastern Bosnia (Western
Balkans)
Sulejman Redzic and Jonathan Ferrier
Chapter 10. Wild Food and Medicinal Plants Used in the Mountainous Albanian North, North-East, and East: A Comparison
Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave
Part III. Building Small-scale, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Economies
Chapter 11. Medicinal Plants in Northern Montenegro: Traditional Knowledge,
Quality, and Resources
Nebojsa Menkovic, Katarina Savikin, Gordana Zdunic, Slobodan Milosavljevic, and Jelena
Zivkovic
Chapter 12. Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Traditional Use of Plants in Serbia in Relation to
Sustainable Rural Development
Zora Dajic Stevanovic, Milica Petrovic, and Svetlana Acic
About the Author: Andrea Pieroni, PhD
University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, Italy
Cassandra L. Quave, PhD
Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology and Center for the Study of Human Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
