Gardens and human agency in the anthropocene. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões, Ana Duarte Rodrigues and Davide Scarso.
• Editors: Diogo, Maria Paula
• Contents: Hygiene, education and art : Roberto Burle Marx's 1930s modern gardens in Brazil / Aline de Figueirôa Silva -- Between the nuclear lab and the backyard : artificially enhanced plant-breeding and the British atomic gardening movement / Vanessa Cirkel-Bartelt -- Urban utopias and the anthropocene / Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo -- Shaping colonial landscapes in the early 20th century : urban planning and health policies in Lourenço Marques / Ana Cristina Roque -- From pairidaeza to planet garden : the homo-gardinus against desertification / Ana Duarte Rodrigues -- From homo Faber to homo Hortensis : gardening techniques in the anthropocene / Astrid Schwarz -- The distant gardener : remote sensing of the planetary potager / Nina Wormbs and Johan Gärdebo -- Resistance in the garden : nature and society in the anthropocene / Davide Scarso -- A new machine in the garden? : staging technospheres in the anthropocene / Nina Möllers, Luke Keogh, and Helmuth Trischler -- The atom in the garden and the apocalyptic fungi : a tale on a global nuclearscape (with artworks and bird-songs) / Jaume Valentines-Álvarez, Eric LoPresti -- Inhabitants : image politics in ongoing climate crisis / Mariana Silva, Pedro Neves Marques -- Troubled gardens : nature-technoculture binary and the search for a safe operating space in Hayao Miyazaki's Mononoke Hime / Ivo Louro, Ana Matilde Sousa.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages)
• Subjects: 635; Gardens -- Environmental aspects; Gardens -- History; Human ecology; Landscape gardening -- Environmental aspects; GARDENING -- Essays; GARDENING -- Reference; GARDENING -- Vegetables; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture; HISTORY -- Historical Geography; NATURE -- General; NATURE -- Ecology; Gardens; Gardens -- Environmental aspects; Human ecology; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351170246; 1351170244; 9781351170222; 1351170228; 9781351170239; 1351170236; 9781351170215
• Related ISBNs: 135117021X; 9780815346661; 0815346662
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2019).
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