Diego Molina

Membership:  2022

Member Bio

Diego Molina completed his PhD in human geography at the University of Reading, UK. Prior to his PhD, he worked for several years as a botanist in Colombia where he participated in scientific explorations, species discovery, and the design of public policies for plant conservation. Currently, Diego is interested in the co-creation of environments between humans and nonhumans, with a particular focus on the historical transformations of human-plant relationships in tropical cities. Diego Molina is the author of Los árboles se toman la ciudad: el proceso de modernización y la transformación del paisaje en Medellín, 1890–1950 (Trees Arriving in the City, the Modernization Process and the Landscape Transformation in Medellín, 1890–1950), which was listed among the 90 must-reads on cities in 2016 by The Nature of Cities platform.

Projects

Publications

  • “The Forced Retirement of a Hard Worker: The Rise and Fall of Eucalyptus in Bogotá.” Environmental History 27, no. 1 (forthcoming).
  • “Urban Spaces, Plants, and People in the Nineteenth-Century Bogotá (Colombia).” Economic Botany 75, no. 2 (2021): 1–18.
  • “Seeds of Modernity: The Beginnings of Treeplanting in Medellín and its Conflicts.” In Urban Nature: Platform of Experiences, edited by Maria Mejía, 14–18. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, 2017.
  • with Dryflor, Karina Banda-R., Alfonso Delgado-Salinas, Kyle G. Dexter, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Ary Oliveria-Filho, Darién Prado, Martin Pullan, Catalina Quintana, et al. “Plant Diversity Patterns in Neotropical Dry Forests and their Conservation Implications.” Science 353, no. 6306 (2016): 1383–1387.
  • Los árboles se toman la ciudad. El proceso de modernización y la transformación del paisaje en Medellín, 1890–1950. Medellín: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 2015.

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