Exploring the Impact of Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh's Living and Preserved Collections on Climate and Biodiversity Outcomes in the 21st Century

探索爱丁堡皇家植物园的活体和保存收藏品对 21 世纪气候和生物多样性成果的影响

• 批准号: 2749991
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2749991
• 关键词: Exploring; Impact; Royal; Botanical; Garden

Since 1670, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has worked globally to protect the natural world, and the organisation now curates a collection which includes libraries, archives, and Scotland's national collections of plants and herbarium specimens. Today, the role of botanic gardens in relation to the growing climate and biodiversity crises, alongside debates on the decolonisation of conservation and collections, require much critical thinking. The studentship will examine these questions by studying recent RBGE (2017-2025) activities, working with communities and policymakers in three countries: Nepal, Tanzania, and Scotland. RBGE's association with Nepal traces back to the 19th century, and continues today with the Flora of Nepal project, an international collaboration with partners including the Nepali Government's Department of Plant Resources. RBGE's connection with Tanzania is more recent, but no less significant, comprising a number of research and community-based projects looking at the patterns and drivers of forest management and logging. Working with communities in Nepal and Tanzania and building on RBGE's Racial Justice Report, the studentship will contribute to the decolonisation debates by exploring the impact heritage organisations are having in these communities both through policy and local-level decision making. This will be matched with a comparative study in Scotland, about how botanical collections and their communication to non-specialist audiences has an impact on tackling the climate and biodiversity crisis. The research aims to provide information and guidance to the wider cultural heritage community regarding the collection, curation, and communication of collections for future impact.

自 1670 年以来，爱丁堡皇家植物园 (RBGE) 一直在全球范围内致力于保护自然世界，该组织现在管理着一个藏品，其中包括图书馆、档案馆以及苏格兰国家植物和植物标本馆藏品。如今，植物园在日益严重的气候和生物多样性危机中所扮演的角色，以及关于保护和收藏的非殖民化的辩论，需要大量的批判性思考。学生将通过研究最近的 RBGE（2017-2025）活动，与尼泊尔、坦桑尼亚和苏格兰这三个国家的社区和政策制定者合作来研究这些问题。 RBGE 与尼泊尔的联系可以追溯到 19 世纪，并通过尼泊尔植物资源项目延续至今，该项目是与尼泊尔政府植物资源部等合作伙伴的一项国际合作。 RBGE 与坦桑尼亚的联系较新，但同样重要，包括许多研究和基于社区的项目，着眼于森林管理和伐木的模式和驱动因素。与尼泊尔和坦桑尼亚的社区合作，并以 RBGE 的种族正义报告为基础，学生奖学金将通过探索遗产组织通过政策和地方决策对这些社区产生的影响，为非殖民化辩论做出贡献。这将与苏格兰的一项比较研究相配合，研究植物收藏品及其与非专业受众的交流如何对应对气候和生物多样性危机产生影响。该研究旨在为更广泛的文化遗产界提供有关藏品的收集、策展和交流的信息和指导，以产生未来的影响。