Earth, a Technogarden

Planting for the Planet in Sweden’s First Phytotron, 1950 –1970

Bibliographic Data

ID11981896
AuthorsSabine Höhler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment Teknikringen 74 D, SE–100 44 Stockholm Sweden, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume46
Issue4
Pages706-728
Publication date2020-12-09
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeschichte und Gesellschaft (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0340-613X • E-ISSN: 2196-9000
PublisherVandenhoeck & Ruprecht (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.13109/gege.2020.46.4.706
OpenAlexW3131892190
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

This paper studies the new repositories of specimens and knowledge that emerged from Sweden’s first “phytotron,” a modern climate laboratory for plant research established in Stockholm in the 1960s. Different aspects and scales of technoscientific plant and crop growth came together under one roof: inhouse trials on the timing and spacing of trees and crops, postwar domestic policies to modernize a largely rural country, and Swedish forest geneticists’ expertise in international efforts to improve forest stand and productivity globally. I argue that a scalar analysis of scientific forestry can help identify and assess the historical contingencies and contexts that formed the interventions in planetary order invoked by the Anthropocene

Anthropocene · Crop · Crop Productivity · Earth system science · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Geography · Order (exchange · Phytotron · Political science · Productivity · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy · Ecology · Forestry

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