Tag: Gardens

January 31, 2024

Disciples of Flora Gardens in History and Culture

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Free Download Victoria Emma Pagan, "Disciples of Flora: Gardens in History and Culture"
English | ISBN: 1443877565 | 2015 | 209 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Disciples of Flora explores, through a variety of approaches, disciplines, and historical periods, the place and vitality of gardens as cultural objects, repositories of meaning, and sites for the construction of identity and subjectivity; gardens being an eminent locus where culture and nature meet. This collection of essays contributes to a revision of histories of gardens by broadening the scope of scholarly inquiry to include a long history from ancient Rome to the present, in which contesting memories delineate new apprehensions of topography and space. The contributors draw attention to alternative landscapes or gardening practices, while recalling the ways in which spaces have been invested with an affective dimension that has itself been historicized.

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January 23, 2024

Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation General Topics, African and Australian Botanical Gardens, Volume 1

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Free Download Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation: General Topics, African and Australian Botanical Gardens, Volume 1 edited by T. Pullaiah, David A. Galbraith
English | September 29, 2023 | ISBN: 1032252189 | True EPUB/PDF | 246 pages | 13.5/25.6 MB
Approaching the contributions of a world-wide sector of scientific institutions to addressing the extinction crisis, Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation brings together a diversity of perspectives. There are more than 3,600 botanical gardens worldwide, where trees, shrubs, herbs, and other plants are studied and managed in collections. They are foremost among efforts to conserve the diversity of living plant species and ensure that crucial biodiversity is available for the future of humanity.

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January 23, 2024

Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation European and American Botanical Gardens, Volume 3

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Free Download Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation: European and American Botanical Gardens, Volume 3 edited by T. Pullaiah, David A. Galbraith
English | September 29, 2023 | ISBN: 1032252227 | True EPUB/PDF | 296 pages | 85.7/56.3 MB
Approaching the contributions of a world-wide sector of scientific institutions to addressing the extinction crisis, Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation brings together a diversity of perspectives. There are more than 3,600 botanical gardens worldwide, where trees, shrubs, herbs, and other plants are studied and managed in collections. They are foremost among efforts to conserve the diversity of living plant species and ensure that crucial biodiversity is available for the future of humanity.

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January 23, 2024

Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation Asian Botanical Gardens, Volume 2

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Free Download Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation: Asian Botanical Gardens, Volume 2 edited by T. Pullaiah, David A. Galbraith
English | September 29, 2023 | ISBN: 1032250399 | True EPUB | 270 pages | 21.8 MB
Approaching the contributions of a world-wide sector of scientific institutions to addressing the extinction crisis, Botanical Gardens and Their Role in Plant Conservation brings together a diversity of perspectives. There are more than 3,600 botanical gardens worldwide, where trees, shrubs, herbs, and other plants are studied and managed in collections. They are foremost among efforts to conserve the diversity of living plant species and ensure that crucial biodiversity is available for the future of humanity.

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