Some Notes on the Mania for Native Plants in Germany

Groening, Gert; Wolschke‐Bulmahn, Joachim

doi:10.3368/lj.11.2.116

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“…Isis Brook [21] cautions that 'debate around invasive species needs careful handling for both ecological and social reasons'. Like other writers (Comaroff and Comaroff [22], Groening and Wolschke-Bulmahn [23], Helmreich [24]), she notes that 'the rhetoric of invasion and degradation [can] apply both ecologically and culturally', and that 'nativism in ecology' can be uncomfortably linked to racism. In ecological terms, some introduced plants become 'naturalised', that is they can live and reproduce without additional care by a gardener (just as exotic animal species are regarded as 'naturalised' once they survive and reproduce independent of human management).…”

Section: What Is Natural What Is Native What Is Invasive What Is Tmentioning

confidence: 90%

Native vs exotic: cultural discourses about flora, fauna and belonging in Australia

Trigger¹,

Mulcock²

2005

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Environmental debates about which plant and animal species 'belong' in particular locations have a growing significance around the world. We argue that ideas about which species constitute weeds or pests and how those species should be managed can be strongly grounded in cultural values and beliefs. Such beliefs are often linked, directly and indirectly, to everyday assumptions about national, regional, local and personal identities. Strong emotional attachments to particular species or landscapes can shape individual and community responses to flora and fauna with implications for issues of sustainable development and planning. This paper focuses on beliefs and practices that are thereby of relevance to urban environmental management. The study setting is the city of Perth, Western Australia. We aim to better understand the connections between nature and culture in a settler-descendant society, focusing on contesting views about 'indigeneity' and 'belonging', in both social and environmental contexts. Sense of place, the notion of a hybrid cultural and environmental heritage, scientifically informed beliefs about environmentally appropriate practices, and contesting aesthetic preferences are key themes in this discussion.

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Section: What Is Natural What Is Native What Is Invasive What Is Tmentioning

confidence: 90%

Native vs exotic: cultural discourses about flora, fauna and belonging in Australia

Trigger¹,

Mulcock²

2005

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…English philosopher Isis Brook (2003: 227) cautions that "debate around invasive species needs careful handling for both ecological and social reasons." Like other writers (Comaroff and Comaroff 2000;Groening and Wolschke-Bulmahn 1992;Helmreich 2005) she notes that "the rhetoric of invasion and degradation [can] apply both ecologically and culturally," and that "nativism in ecology" can be uncomfortably linked to racism (Brook 2003: 229). Nevertheless, in Europe as well as in settler societies like Australia and South Africa, there is concern, especially among conservation scientists, about an increasing domination of flora by "the same few 'weedy' species" and the associated "extinction of 'ousted species;'" hence, "environmental thinking" is that people should either "not move to environments new to them" or at least "curb the desire" to make such new places "feel like home" (Brook 2003: 229).…”

Section: What Is Natural What Is Native What Is Invasive What Is Tmentioning

confidence: 95%

Restored Nature, Familiar Culture: Contesting Visions for Preferred Environments in Australian Cities

Trigger¹,

Head²

2010

Nature and Culture

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How are preferences for “native” and “introduced” species of plants and animals given expression in Australian cities? Given the nation's predominantly European cultural heritage, how do urban Australians articulate multiple desires for living environments encountered in everyday life? In examining the cases of inner city parks, backyards, and more general views about flora and fauna appropriate for the city, the paper considers a range of deeply enculturated attachments to familiar landscapes. While residents have considerable interest in the possibilities of urban ecological restoration, our interviews, ethnographic observation, and textual analysis also reveal cultural preferences for introduced species and emplaced attachments to historically modified landscapes. These preferences and attachments are linked to senses of identity developed during formative life experiences. In the relatively young post-settler society of Australia, such drivers of environmental desires can sit uneasily alongside science-driven propositions about what is good for biodiversity and ecological sustainability.

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“…Yet I really do think that they are a blot on the landscape . Cautionary tales suggest the desire for native plant species even risks supporting xenophobia (Groening and Wolschke-Bulmahn 1992). .…”

Section: Ocbil Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Landscape Neo-Baroque: Design as a Cultural Strategy for the Restoration of Urban Ecosystems

Sack¹

2015

Landscape Journal

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This paper presents a design strategy as a technique for increasing the ecological relevance of constructed (designed) landscapes. The paper focuses on Perth, Western Australia, a rapidly expanding settler-city located in an internationally recognized biodiversity hotspot. While uniquely endued in plant endemism and species richness, the city's fringes are smoothed over and bulldozed with little regard. Located in the Southwest Australian Floristic Region, the landscape's extreme age and stability, its isolation and Gondwanan botanical heritage, and the ability of its plants to thrive in old, leached stable soils are some of the factors that account for this botanical richness. While scientists continually strive to understand the specific, Perth's inhabitants persistently crave the verdant picturesque. Without an acute and novel approach to modifying current design and development practices, Perth's biodiversity is headed for extinction. The paper is developed in four sections: firstly, it asserts that designed landscape should be treated as potential novel ecosystems, allowing for a more robust cultural and ecological exchange. Secondly, it elaborates on the particularities of site and problems within the locale of Perth, Western Australia and, in doing so, briefly presents some considerations of Perth's OCBIL landscapes. The paper then introduces the Baroque as a potential cultural framework upon which to articulate a considered design strategy. This paper elaborates on how baroque design strategies can structure the creation of resilient and ecologically productive novel ecosystems grounded in a critical and local aesthetic of ecological complexity.

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Some Notes on the Mania for Native Plants in Germany

Cited by 41 publications

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Native vs exotic: cultural discourses about flora, fauna and belonging in Australia

Native vs exotic: cultural discourses about flora, fauna and belonging in Australia

Restored Nature, Familiar Culture: Contesting Visions for Preferred Environments in Australian Cities

A Landscape Neo-Baroque: Design as a Cultural Strategy for the Restoration of Urban Ecosystems

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