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2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleSince their inception in the sixteenth century, botanic gardens have been embroiled with matters of governance. In Postnormal Conservation, Katja Grötzner Neves reveals that, throughout its long history, the botanical garden institution has been both a product and an enabler of modernity and the Westphalian nation-state. Initially intertwined with projects of colonialism and empire building, contemporary botanic gardens have reinvented themselves as environmental governance actors. They are now at the forefront of emerging forms of networked transnational governance. Building on social studies of science that reveal the politicization of science as the producer of contingent, high-stakes, and uncertain knowledge, and the concomitant politicization of previously taken-for-granted science-policy interfaces, Neves contends that institutions like botanic gardens have discursively deployed postnormal science and posthuman precepts to justify their growing involvement with biodiversity conservation governance within the Anthropocene.

Botanical gardens. --- Botanic gardens --- Gardens --- Research institutes --- Arboretums

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Botanical gardens --- Plants --- Plant evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Botanic gardens --- Gardens --- Research institutes --- Arboretums --- Evolution. --- Phylogeny

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As official botanist on James Cook's first circumnavigation, the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, advisor to King George III, the 'father of Australia,' and the man who established Kew as the world's leading botanical garden, Sir Joseph Banks was integral to the English Enlightenment. Yet he has not received the recognition that his multifarious achievements deserve. This volume reveals the true extent of Banks's contributions to science and Britain.

Botany --- Natural history. --- Explorers --- Naturalists --- Enlightenment --- History. --- Banks, Joseph, --- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. --- Great Britain.

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With their centuries-long development, the English landscape garden, the formal French garden, as well Japanese and Chinese gardens constitute an unparalleled repository of design solutions familiar throughout the world. They are frequently drawn upon as reference works, but often in a piecemeal and haphazard fashion and from botanical or art-historical vantage points. That is where the books of this new series come in. They present the various garden types from the perspective of contemporary landscape and garden design. Starting from the formidable beauty of the world's most distinguished gardens, they point the way toward the essential compositional principles, the plants most commonly utilized and their most characteristic uses, and the possibilities for employing them in contemporary projects, thus providing readers with a rich source of inspiration for their own designs and creations. The panorama of "The Chinese Garden" stretches from the surviving historical gardens all the way to such modern examples as the garden at the Bank of China in Hong Kong (designed by I. M. Pei), Ai Weiwei's Yiwu Riverbank Park, the Garden of Flowering Fragrance in the Los Angeles, California, region and the Garden of Awakening Orchids in Portland, Oregon.

Histoire des jardins --- Chine --- Jardins --- Jardins à la chinoise --- Jardins botaniques --- Architecture du paysage --- Gardens, Chinese --- Botany --- Botanical gardens --- Landscape design --- History --- Gardens, Chinese. --- Botanic gardens --- Gardens --- Research institutes --- Arboretums --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Design --- Landscape architecture --- Chinese gardens --- History. --- Styles --- Jardins à la chinoise. --- Floristic botany --- Architecture --- Architecture, Chinese --- Jardins à la chinoise.

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This guide is intended as an aid for managers of sentinel plantings, botanical gardens or arboreta, as well as phytosanitary inspectors, who may have knowledge of common pests and diseases of woody plants, but may not know the likely cause of damage that they have not encountered before. It aims to provide a tentative identification of relatively broad groups of organisms and not definitive identification of the causal agents. Hence, the pictures in this guide need to be regarded as typical examples of the described symptoms. There are chapters that explain how to use the guide, followed by keys (for different organs of conifer and broadleaf species) to guide the user to the relevant sections of the book, based on the questions entomologists and pathologists ask themselves when looking at a damaged or diseased tree in a fashion similar to how a doctor interrogates a patient to arrive at a diagnosis. The largest part of the book is devoted to the description and illustration of damage types and typical causes of the observed damage. The last chapters provide instructions for taking and preserving samples for further identification by an expert, notification of relevant authorities, and a glossary.

Plant pathology & diseases --- Agricultural science --- pests --- injuries --- arthropods --- keys --- trees --- preservation --- sampling techniques --- plants --- woody plants --- plant diseases --- animals --- Pinopsida --- pest arthropods --- broadleaved trees --- eukaryotes --- guide books --- Pinophyta --- gymnosperms --- sampling --- broadleaves --- plant pests --- symptoms --- arthropod pests --- botanic gardens --- arboreta --- Spermatophyta --- botanical gardens --- invertebrates