A ‘deep’ aesthetics of contested landscapes: Visions of land use as competing temporalities

Jenkins, Jeffrey

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.07.003

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“…For example, social capital of community, family, and culture provide for emotional ties and personal identity, all of which have relations to places, attachment to those places, and concern for negative environmental change (Giuliani 2003 ; Brehm et al 2013 ). Giuliani ( 2003 ) and others point out that conflicts in places can arise when there are disagreements between groups who have strong attachments to the same place while having different perceptions and values associated with place-based management (Chapin III and Knapp 2015 ; Jenkins 2018 ).…”

Section: Place Attachment Place Meaning and Perceived Impactsmentioning

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Sense of Place and Perceived Impacts in the Rural Industrialized Nexus: Insights for Sustainability Pathways

Weeks,

Jenkins

2024

Environmental Management

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As representative of the water-energy-food nexus, fossil fuel development and industrial agriculture are rural industries that continue to expand and increasingly occur in the same areas. Being a top agricultural export county and the fossil fuel capital of California while ranking among the worst in the US for industrial pollution, Kern County is a poster child of rural nexus development and, thus, an essential place for initiating sustainability transitions. Such transitions rely on policy support and the adoption of methods by individuals and communities who may disagree with such changes. While sense of place and impact perceptions are recognized as playing critical roles in sustainability management, they have yet to be utilized in nexus research. A survey (N = 256) of the perceived impacts of nexus industries with place meaning and place attachment as possible drivers for perceptions was conducted in nexus industry pollution exposure risk zones. Factor analysis and bivariate correlations showed that place meaning and place attachment are drivers for perceptions while also being drivers for concern for changes in nexus industries. While perceptions of impacts indicated contested place meanings, participants strongly perceive the economy and environment as being in decline. To build support for sustainability policy, directing funds from Kern County’s renewable energy industry to local sectors of society, implementation of regenerative agriculture, cooperative management, and nurturing place meaning as aligned with nature’s restorative quality are important paths forward. These nexus management foci could strengthen place attachment, build trust in government, and repair environmental alienation.

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Section: Place Attachment Place Meaning and Perceived Impactsmentioning

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Sense of Place and Perceived Impacts in the Rural Industrialized Nexus: Insights for Sustainability Pathways

Weeks,

Jenkins

2024

Environmental Management

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“…Many authors claimed that accurate and rational H&BU indication of the area can be conducted on the basis of particular case study. For example, the Jenkins (2018) has utilized the case of a proposed hard rock mine on multiple use public lands to demonstrate how knowledge claims aren't so easily partitioned between the present and past. He tried to explain the emergence of land use conflict through a temporal disentanglement of the knowledge structures that have produced esthetic meaning.…”

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Property sustainable value versus highest and best use analyzes

Walacik

Renigier‐Biłozor

Chmielewska

et al. 2020

Sustainable Development

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Sustainable development of all the urban environment elements (including properties) is a very information requiring decision making process that absorbs data from many different fields. Since economic aspects of that kind of development are one the fundaments of the concept, property assessment procedures quite often support sustainable development. The current market value definition interpretation provided by valuation standards of international rage (EVS, IVS) and highest and best use of property (H&BU) have also become widely discussed and troublesome issues. The discussion is vital due to the fact of H&BU consideration in wider context, including sustainable development and sustainable value. The authors in order to improve clarity of the paper proposed a definition of sustainable value. The use of modified methods of sensitivity and scenario combined analysis as a solution enabling sustainable value quantification with the use of H&BU property assessment theory and practice was proposed. The obtained sustainable value coefficient, determined according to proposed methodology, enabled consideration of all the highest and best use tests. Additionally, it enabled consideration of sustainability context. It was described by maximal productivity of property strongly correlated with socioeconomic and socio-cultural phenomena. Highlights 1. The concept of sustainable development involves much more than the "green" issue, thus can create an added value for real estate analysis (especially based on "highest and best use" assumptions). 2. Even though the "highest and best use" notion has been defined its' interpretation causes many ambiguities and problems. 3. "Highest value" is a condition that requires taking into account all the circumstances (physical, legal, financial and productivity) with maximum: return rate/ developed area/increase of build-up area. 4. Maximal productivity in highest and best use context means directly not to give any decreases in sustainable value or/and give possibility to increases the sustainable value in the future. 5. "Sustainable value" can reflect not only economic issues (reflected directly by property value) but can exceed its' meaning to a broader sense including

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“…And, while previous studies have demonstrated that acceptability for stand retention can differ between clumped patches and greater-extent dispersed plots, the latter being deemed more scenic, this preference is held by the general public as opposed to those working the land (Ribe 2005). The scenic aesthetics of forest landscapes are thus situated in one's mode of production; for rural livelihoods that were historically dependent on commodity production, epistemic frames of market rationality are inextricably linked to how the landscape ought to look (Nightingale 2009, Jenkins 2018b). People base their preferences on pre-existing knowledge associated with forest landscapes, and a preference for passive management may therefore be a claim to lack of contextual knowledge more than informed expertise that doing nothing is actually the best option.…”

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Seeing the forest for more than the trees: aesthetic and contextual malleability of preferences for climate change adaptation strategies

Jenkins¹,

Milligan²,

Huang³

2020

E&S

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Climate change is still addressed largely through expert-driven processes that rely on large-scale scenarios to transmit knowledge of anticipated trends to land managers and the lay public who are forced to confront and adapt to impacts at the local level. Thus, there is a disconnect between large-scale scenarios and the top-down management paradigm that decision-makers use, and local scenarios and management actions that deal with familiar landscape features in the context of actually existing ecological disturbances and socioeconomic vulnerabilities. Downscaled visual scenarios developed through image alteration of specific landscapes are a useful way of contextualizing and communicating possible outcomes and educating participants about alternative land management strategies. Furthermore, visual imagery can allow for a greater range of information exchange than written or verbal information alone and is a particularly effective tool for conveying knowledge and gathering public opinions among communities with and without scientific backgrounds. We are therefore interested in how visual preferences for adaptive management align with participant's understandings of functional ecological resiliency and aesthetic form. To investigate this, we detail the development of a visual survey method designed to test community preferences for adaptive management of forest systems in the southern portion of California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. For each site-specific scenario, the survey assessed participant's preferences among three alternative strategies: passive management, traditional restoration practices, and practices that are adaptive to uncertainty and changing outcomes. We asked the following: Does the inclusion of explanatory text with a visual scenario affect management preference? Do preferences differ between respondent professional category? And, how does stated familiarity with place-based landscape management practices affect preferences? Our results show that inclusion of explanatory site background information and narrative text with each strategy image aided in the understanding of and buy-in for adaptive management, which is dependent on place-based context.

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A ‘deep’ aesthetics of contested landscapes: Visions of land use as competing temporalities

Cited by 16 publications

References 54 publications

Sense of Place and Perceived Impacts in the Rural Industrialized Nexus: Insights for Sustainability Pathways

Sense of Place and Perceived Impacts in the Rural Industrialized Nexus: Insights for Sustainability Pathways

Property sustainable value versus highest and best use analyzes

Seeing the forest for more than the trees: aesthetic and contextual malleability of preferences for climate change adaptation strategies

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