The public history, climate change present, and possible future of Australia’s botanic gardens
- Written by: Susan K Martin, Emeritus Professor in English, La Trobe University
Botanic Gardens in Hobart, 1859.Libraries TasmaniaCan we justify maintaining water-hungry botanic gardens in an age of climate change and rising water prices?
Perhaps such gardens are no longer suited to Australia’s changing climate – if they ever were.
It is easy to argue Australian botanic gardens are imperial remnants full of European...