Download or read book Bridges Between Tradition and Innovation in Ethnomedicine written by Maria Costanza Torri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.