Draft:Nigel Dunnett
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Nigel Dunnett is a British horticulturalist. He is professor of Planting Design and Vegetation Technology at the University of Sheffield.[1]
Biography
[edit]Dunnett studied at the University of Bristol from 1981 to 1984, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in botany. In 1986, he received a Master of Science in Landscape Ecology, Design and Conservation from Wye College, University of London. In 1996 he received his PhD from the University of Sheffield with a long-term study of roadside vegetation in Bibury. Since 1994 he has taught in the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield, initially as a lecturer, from 2003 as a senior lecturer and from 2007 as a reader in urban horticulture. Since 2006 he has also been director of the university's "Green Roof Center", which conducts research into green roofs.[2]
In addition to the design and long-term observation of green roofs and the vegetation on the verges of roads, Dunnett, together with James Hitchmough (University of Sheffield), devoted himself primarily to the development of seed mixtures that were used in the long term to create green spaces (Sheffield School). Since the fundamental work on plant sociology in horticulture, Perennials and their habitats in gardens and green spaces by Richard Hansen[3] was only translated into English in 1993[4] and has long been out of print, and the work of Karl Foerster and Willy Lange is hardly known in the English-speaking world, he developed his own variant of plant sociology that uses different terminology, but otherwise partially replicates the work of Hansen and his school.[5] He also found Hansen's planting plans[6] "tremendously difficult"[7] and therefore preferred to plant the plants randomly.
Books
[edit]- with Noel Kingsbury Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls (Timber Press, 2003)
- with James Hitchmough The dynamic Landscape: Design, Ecology and Management of Urban Naturalistic Planting London 2004 (2. Auflage 2008).
- Andy Clayden, Nigel Dunnett, Residential Landscape Sustainability, a Checklist Tool (Oxford, 2008)
- Rain Gardens: Sustainable Management of Rainwater in the designed Landscape. Portland 2007.
- Nigel Dunnett on Planting (Filbert Press, 2019)
- The essential Guide to naturalistic Planting Design. Filbert Press 2020. Dt. Naturalistische Gartengestaltung, Stuttgart 2020.
References
[edit]- ^ "Dunnett, Nigel, Professor". 21 May 2020.
- ^ Professor Nigel Dunnett sheffield.ac.uk. Abgerufen am 21. Oktober 2021.
- ^ Richard Hansen/Friedrich Stahl, Die Stauden und ihre Lebensbereiche in Gärten und Grünanlagen, Stuttgart 1981
- ^ Perennials and their Garden Habitats, Portland 1993
- ^ vgl. Anke Schmitz, Cassian Schmidt: Pflege ist heute weit mehr als Formschnitt und Unkraut jäten
- ^ Richard Hansen, Hermann Müssel: Ein Kennziffersystem zur naturgemäßen Staudenverwendung. Fachhochschule Weihenstephan, Jahresbericht 1972, 48–64.
- ^ "fiendishly difficult", Nigel Dunnett, The essential Guide to naturalistic Planting Design 2020, 64.