Plant: A Necessity of Life (original) (raw)
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Why Look at Plants? - Introduction.pdf
Why Look at Plants? , 2019
"Plant fixity, perceived passivity, and resilient silence have relegated the vegetal world to the cultural background of human civilization. This book argues that the recent emergence of plants in the gallery space constitutes a wake-up-call to reappraise our relationship with plants at a time of deep ecological crisis. 'Why Look at Plants?' challenges readers’ pre-established notions through a diverse gathering of insights, stories, experiences, perspectives, and arguments encompassing multiple disciplines, media, and methodologies". https://brill.com/view/title/33086
The world according to plants, 2020
This is a translation of the first chapter of my book Vanuit de plant gezien (As seen from the point of view of the plant, 2019). It's an introduction to the point of view of plants on basically anything. See also Inner and Outer World of the Plants in my publications.
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Social Compass
I review the contributions to this special issue by focusing on the relational qualities that bind people and plants together through religious ritualization of economic activities such as crop cultivation or plant gathering in the wild. I show how an attention to plants as teachers facilitates cross-cultural comparative analysis.
Plant Worlds: Assembling the Ethnobotanical
TEA: The Ethnobotanical Assembly, 2018
Without plants, life on earth as we know it simply could not exist. In terms of sheer mass, plants dominate terrestrial ecosystems, with one thousand times more plant than animal biomass on land (Bar-on et al. 2018). Within this vital mass is incredibly diversity: according to recent estimates, there are just shy of four hundred thousand species of plants in the world (Willis 2017). The significance of this is as much cultural as it is ecological. All human societies rely on plants in myriad ways – as resources, as symbols, as ideas, as cohabitants. And like an optical illusion, while often going completely unnoticed, the centrality of plants to social life, once seen, cannot be unseen. Just as they do in ecosystems, plants underpin and thread their way through human social worlds with grace and tenacity.
2021
Phytoremediation is a comprehensive technology that offers which clean up the remediation of heavy metals soils contaminated with heavy metals with a resourceful and costeffective option. The use of plants to decontaminate polluted soils is termed as phytoremediation as it uses plants to uptake, accumulate, degrade and remediate heavy metals (Mahar et al., 2016). With the green revolution, excessive usage of fertilizers and pesticides polluted the soil by heavy metals such as chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), arsenic (As), mercury (Hg), nickel (Ni), and lead (Pb) etc. Pesticides, beside their biocidal and fertilizing effects, supply a considerable quantity of heavy metals to the environment especially in soil and plants. Pesticides are responsible for diseases in human beings such as neurodegenerative diseases and different types of cancers. Moreover, with the rise of their selectivity and efficiency, pesticides are becoming more and more costly for farmers Heavy metals are ...