Climate‐controlled conservation
Remaking ‘the botanical metropolis of the world’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8964084 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Rutherford (0000-0001-5779-3185, LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés), UMR 8134—Ecole Des Ponts ParisTech, CNRS Université Gustave Eiffel Marne la Vallée France, corresponding author), Simon Marvin (0000-0001-5538-5102, Urban Institute University of Sheffield Sheffield UK) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.12701 |
| OpenAlex | W4401174147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 63 |
This paper examines the understudied relationship between nature conservation and climate control in botanic gardens. Drawing on research conducted at Kew Gardens in West London, we analyse how the relations between climate control, techniques that allow the creation of particular microclimatic conditions in volumetric enclosures, and ex‐situ—out of nature—botanical management have changed over time. The paper shows how climate‐controlled conservation works through three spatial‐technological modes—acclimatisation, climate simulation, and climate security—that reconfigure in‐situ and ex‐situ relations. These modes increasingly transcend local environmental conditions, creating the possibility of conservation without natural climate. The paper extends existing geographies of climate control by focusing on the role of technology in permitting plant life to be moved between different geographical contexts, in enabling ex‐situ and in‐situ natures to become increasingly entwined, and in constructing enclosed conditions decoupled from local climate. Secure climate‐controlled conservation now strategically transforms ex‐situ botanic gardens into the actual sites, and in some cases the last remaining sites, of these natures
Climate change · Environmental resource management · Ex situ conservation · Geography · Habitat · In situ conservation · Sociology · Animal and Plant Science Education · Ecology · Environmental Science · Species Distribution and Climate Change · Urban Green Space and Health
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Wildlife in the Anthropocene
Geographies of Nature
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Household accessibility to heat refuges
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Environments, Natures and Social Theory
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Weathered
A historical review of urban climatology and the atmospheres of the industrialized world
Toward Analog Geographies
The Wardian Case
Geographies of conservation I
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Imperial Nature
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Environmental management as situated practice
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Wild(er)ness
Geographies of conservation II
Spectral ecologies
Conservation without nature
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As the drone flies
Conservation, biopolitics, and the governance of life and death
Thermal Eco-cities
Botanic Urbanism
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Science and Colonial Expansion
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Politics of Nature
Air Conditioning and the Material Culture of Routine Human Encasement
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |