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）一直致力于保护全球自然世界，该组织现在策划了一系列包括图书馆，档案馆和苏格兰国家植物和植物标本馆标本的收藏。今天，植物园在日益严重的气候和生物多样性危机中的作用，以及关于保护和收藏的非殖民化的辩论，需要更多的批判性思维。该奖学金将通过研究最近的RBGE（2017-2025）活动，与三个国家的社区和政策制定者合作来研究这些问题：尼泊尔，坦桑尼亚和苏格兰。 RBGE与尼泊尔的关系可以追溯到世纪，并继续今天的尼泊尔植物群项目，与包括尼泊尔政府植物资源部在内的合作伙伴进行国际合作。RBGE与坦桑尼亚的联系是最近的，但同样重要，包括一些研究和社区项目，研究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，并在RBGE的种族正义报告的基础上，该奖学金将通过探索遗产组织通过政策和地方决策在这些社区中的影响，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匹配，研究植物收藏及其与非专业观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社区提供有关收集，策展和传播藏品以产生未来影响的信息和指导。