#056 - Barnabas Seyler: Benefits of Urban Green Spaces & Ethnobotany in China

Today we talk with Barnabas Seyler, a researcher of public horticulture and ethnobotany in Chengdu, China. His research focuses on the positive effects of urban green spaces on human health as well as identifying and understanding plants through local cultures. In this episode we discuss urban greening and how environmental education improves urban communities’ relationships with nature. Barnabas highlights the importance of ethnobotany, and how researching plants with native communities can shed light on new applications from food to medicine.   For more information, see our website here.     This presentation is a service of Discovering Academia, and all information presented is for commercial and informational purposes only.  Discovering Academia provides no assurances as to the accuracy or completeness of the information presented and possesses no actual knowledge of any topic presented. Any opinions expressed in this presentation are solely attributed to each individual asserting the same and do not reflect the opinion of Discovering Academia.