Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Centre for Middle Eastern Plants, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Sci Rep. 2023 Sep 20;13(1):15646. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-41398-6.
Since many cities lack botanical gardens, we introduced the concept of Ancillary Botanic Gardens (ABG), which builds on the premise that organizations can expand informal botanical learning by adding a secondary function to their institutional green spaces. This study guides the application of the ABG concept in various spatial and functional contexts by offering practical and interpretive tools to organizations who are less used to working with nature but are interested in mitigating urban residents' detachment from nature. Online maps of 220 botanic gardens were reviewed to define types of plant collections and produce an exhaustive list of physical botanic garden elements. The collected information was developed into an ABG field checklist that was tested on three case studies in Lebanon and then used to develop guidelines for ABG establishment. The guidelines and checklist are meant to empower and guide organizations interested in establishing an ABG.
由于许多城市缺乏植物园，我们引入了辅助植物园（Ancillary Botanic Gardens，ABG）的概念，该概念基于这样的前提，即组织可以通过为其机构绿地增加次要功能来扩展非正式的植物学学习。本研究通过为不常与自然打交道但有兴趣减轻城市居民与自然脱节的组织提供实用和解释性工具，指导 ABG 概念在各种空间和功能背景下的应用。对 220 个植物园的在线地图进行了审查，以确定植物收藏的类型，并制作了详尽的实体植物园元素清单。收集到的信息被开发成 ABG 实地检查表，在黎巴嫩的三个案例研究中进行了测试，然后用于制定 ABG 建立的准则。这些准则和检查表旨在为有兴趣建立 ABG 的组织提供支持和指导。
