New Interest in Wild Forest Products in Europe as an Expression of Biocultural Dynamics

In Europe, interest in wild forest products is increasing. Such products may be interpreted in a biologicalsense as deriving from autonomously growing forest species or in a biocultural sense as reflecting dynamics in humanliving with biodiversity through re-wilding of earlier domesticated species. In this article I elaborate the idea that the new interests reflect biocultural dynamics. First, I identify these dynamics as involving both domestication and re-wilding and characterize these processes as involving biological, environmental, and cultural dimensions. Next, I present a comparativerev... Mehr ...