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The role of Botanical Gardens is presented in its biodiversity conservation and climate change dimensions in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development framework (UN 2015).
Although gardens date back thousands of years to China’s Zhou dynasty, 1122–249 BCE (Chen and Sun 2018), the modern concept of a Botanical Garden originated in Europe; the oldest is the Orto Botanico di Pisa founded in 1544, which continues to operate today. Botanical gardens are public, private, or associative institutions that maintain collections scientifically ordered of plants, documented and labeled, for research, but also for education and recreation (The Botanic Gardens Conservation Strategy, IUCN-BGCS and WWF 1989).
Climate change (CC) refers to changes in Earth’s weather patterns, mainly associated with changes in Earth’s average atmosphere temperature due to the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere...
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Martín, M.P., Barreiro, G., Duque, A.M., Magalhães, Z., Manrique, E. (2020). Botanical Gardens Facing Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_124-1
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