Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- wiki:howtocontribute [2014/12/09 17:59] – flowerpower
+++ wiki:howtocontribute [2019/03/20 13:34] (current) – apolderman
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-SAUSSUREA COSTUS ALPINA PROJECT
+==== How to contribute ====
-Medicinal plants are an important ecological and economic resource in the Alps. Using the genus Sausserea as a model, the Uttarakhand Organic Board in the Indian Himalaya has started an initiative for the humanitarian and ethical cultivation of Saussurea costus, which is recognized for its medical properties.
-Saussurea costus (Kuth) is nearly extinct from the wild. It has been enlisted in CITES (Appendix I, total prohibited from trade). Fortunately in Uttarakhand state, its cultivation and trade is allowed for the growers registered with HRDI हर्बल प्रदेश-सकारात्मक परिवेश: Herbal Sector in Action, Gopeshwar. HUMAN INDIA SOCIETY is promoting farmers of district Uttarakashi to take up mass scale production of Kuth. Training programms on quality production, processing, packaging, Storage, etc are being organized by the society. Marketing of Kuth with optimum prices has already been ensured. The ultimate aim is to conserve germplasm of this highly prized critically endangered species by making it as an cash crop for hill agriculture.
-Another species of Sausserea, Saussurea alpina, is native to the Alps and may it is also nearly extinct and have similar economic and medicinal potential. We propose to develop guidelines for the explo-
-ration and sustainable utilization of this species, using the cultivation procedure in Uttarakhand as an example for cultivating S. alpina in the Alps. We want to test the feasibility of using Saussurea
-costus to develop health products, which will later help guide the development of health-enhancing products containing S. alpina.
-Medicinal plants provide many ecological services that are at the heart of human well-being. In addition to their healing properties, medicinal plants help to purify water and to stabilize the composition of the atmosphere. As with other plants, the solutions that medicinal plants have evolved to cope with environmental challenges vary enormously from species to species and often involve associations with other organisms, such as microbes and insects. Our lack of success in understanding
-the traits that are important for a medicinal plant's environmental performance is in part a failure to heal the unhappy divorce that split plant biology departments along cellular-molecular and ecological-evolutionary lines.
-The solution to this problem is to form a research model that reconnects these two types of scientific investigation and apply it to an important and rare plant genus: Sausserea, particularly Saussurea costus and Saussurea alpina.
-Saussurea alpina is a plant that lives in the Alps and has never been studied in a scientific manner. However, it shares many similarities with S. costus in India, the medicinal properties of which are well documented in traditional Chinese medicine, Tibetan medicine and ayurvedic medicine. This research investigates the medical and economic potential of Saussurea by establishing research cultivation areas in the Alps and conducting cellular-molecular research.
-If research can scientifically and unambiguously demonstrate the therapeutic effects of Saussurea alpina, this native plant may be a valuable source of new income for Alpine farmers. The cultivation of S. alpina and the development of new medical products would benefit both the environment and human health by providing a profitable, completely organic and carbon neutral crop that thrives on abandoned pastures and provides medicinal products that benefit to human health.
+[[:wiki:wikialps|WIKIAlps]] follows the wiki philosophy and is based on the contributions of different authors. In this article you will find how easy it is to become an author and contribute to WIKIAlps.
+=== Register ===
+To become a WIKAlps contributor you need to register and create an account. Just go to the register section in the upper right section of the page, fill up the information required and you are ready to create/edit an article. It takes literally less than two minutes.
+=== Who should contribute? ===
+The wiki WIKIAlps is open to everyone who has a passion for **[[:wiki:sustainable_spatial_development_ssd|spatial development]]**, **[[wiki:ecosystem_services_alpes|Ecosystem Services]]**, or **low-carbon policies in winter tourism regions**, especially those persons in the Alpine Space territories. Contributions from public authorities, experts of spatial development, researchers and any other person interested and experienced in this topic are more than welcome. But please keep in mind to edit pages only if you can improve them.
+=== How to contribute? ===
+The [[:wiki:howtowiki|WIKIAlps Help]] article will explain you the basic technical information you need to start creating/editing an article. In this article, you can also find guidelines on how to format the articles and create links within WIKIAlps and outside the wiki. For a more detailed and extended information use the [[:wiki:syntax|formatting syntax]] article or you can go directly to the [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki|DokuWiki webpage]].
+In order to have a useful , easy to use wiki, you should use these [[:wiki:templates|templates]] for a certain type of articles (especially those about projects and documents analysis).
+=== Please take into account that some rules have to be respected when contributing: ===
+  * Please be aware of the fact that all your contributions will be traceable and you are responsible for the contents you insert in [[http://www.wikialps.eu|www.wikialps.eu]].
+  * Please keep in mind to edit articles only if you can improve them. We must avoid redundancies and overlapping of information.
+  * Please respect intellectual property rights and cite the sources from which you obtain information. Please do not publish any information for which you do not have the rights.
+  * The [[:wiki:igf|webmaster]] reservers the right to refuse logins to single persons, to block user logins, to validate new contents before publishing them or to block or delete contents.
+  * Articles should include No discrimination, No offensive speech, No fraud, No publicity or compromise other persons or institutions.
+Please read the [[:wiki:disclaimer|disclaimer]] for further information.