Organization:Society for Economic Botany
Motto | Fostering research and education on the past, present, and future uses of plants by people |
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Formation | 1959 |
Purpose | Furthering economic botany |
Region | Worldwide |
Official language | English |
President | John de la Parra |
Main organ | Council |
Website | www |
The Society for Economic Botany is an international learned society covering the field of economic botany. It was established in 1959. In 2022 the Society voted to change its name to the Society for Ethnobotany, going into effect in June 2023. Its official journal is Economic Botany, published on their behalf by Springer Science+Business Media and the New York Botanical Garden Press.[1] The society also publishes a biannual newsletter, Plants and People.[2] The society organizes annual meetings at different locations around the world, where it awards the prize of Distinguished Economic Botanist to particularly meritorious individuals.[3][4]
Distinguished Economic Botanist prize
In 2022 the Society voted to change the name of this award to the Distinguished Ethnobotanist award, going into effect in June 2023. Recent recipients of the Distinguished Economic Botanist prize include:[4]
Past Presidents
Past presidents of the society include:[5]
References
- ↑ "Economic Botany". Springer Science+Business Media. https://www.springer.com/life+sciences/plant+sciences/journal/12231. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
- ↑ "Plants and People". Society for Economic Botany. http://www.econbot.org/index.php?module=content&type=user&func=view&pid=23. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
- ↑ "Two botanists recognised as Distinguished Economic Botanists by the Society of Economic Botany". Botanic Gardens Conservation International. https://www.bgci.org/news-and-events/news/0700/. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Distinguished Economic Botanists". Society for Economic Botany. http://www.econbot.org/index.php?module=content&type=user&func=view&pid=13. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ↑ "Society Officers". Society for Economic Botany. http://www.econbot.org/index.php?module=content&type=user&func=view&pid=8. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
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