The Genesis of an Urban Flora: New Plants, Their Conflicts and Regulations in Colombian Cities

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.3197/ge.2023.160206

Diego Molina

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Abstract

This paper addresses the nineteenth-century genesis of the urban flora in Bogotá and Medellín. Using historical evidence, it explores how these two Colombian cities turned into floristic islands different from their nearby environments. This study shows how the uniqueness of the urban flora responds to a historical accumulation of species followed by an increase of the botanical repertoire of the cities. This enrichment of plants was accompanied with new human-plant interactions based on disciplined behaviours implemented by the emergent urban elite. Through organisations such as the Embellishment Society of Bogotá, these elites established mechanisms of green proselytising to solve conflict between people and plants that unfolded in the recently opened parks and gardens. By opening a dialogue between urban, landscape and ethnobotanical studies, this paper explores an integrative approach towards the plants in cities, showing how the urban nature in highly biodiverse cities is a historical process not free of conflicts and negotiations between humans and photosynthetic organisms.

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城市植物群的起源:哥伦比亚城市中的新植物及其冲突与调控

本文论述了19世纪波哥大和Medellín城市植物区系的起源。利用历史证据，它探索了这两个哥伦比亚城市如何变成与附近环境不同的植物岛。该研究显示了城市植物区系的独特性如何响应物种的历史积累，随后是城市植物库的增加。植物的丰富伴随着新的人类与植物的相互作用，这种相互作用基于新兴的城市精英实施的有纪律的行为。通过波哥大美化协会等组织，这些精英建立了绿色传教机制，以解决最近开放的公园和花园中出现的人与植物之间的冲突。通过开启城市、景观和民族植物学研究之间的对话，本文探索了一种研究城市植物的综合方法，展示了高度生物多样性城市中的城市自然是一个人类与光合生物之间冲突和协商的历史过程。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

0.50

自引率

25.00%

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.