Do cows belong in nature? The cultural basis of agriculture in Sweden and Australia

Saltzman, Katarina; Head, Lesley; Stenseke, Marie

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2010.09.001

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“…However, whether such habitats over time may be assigned values related to heritage and aesthetics is an open question. However, results from interview studies suggest that people's appreciation of landscapes is much related to the fact that the landscape is inhabited, harbors agriculture and has the capacity to sustain people's living [71,72,91]. This indicates that values related to heritage continue to be produced [77].…”

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“…Although ordinary present-day agricultural landscapes are generally less diverse biologically as compared to old cultural landscapes [90], interview studies suggest that even such landscapes, transformed by modernization, may be highly valued and appreciated by people [72]. One study concluded that people in Sweden often regard agricultural landscapes as "nature" [91]. It is beyond the scope here to examine such a conceptual understanding of nature, but it is obvious that this nature concept is totally different from the idea of "wilderness" that dominates the American discourse on nature [12,92].…”

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Historical and Current Niche Construction in an Anthropogenic Biome: Old Cultural Landscapes in Southern Scandinavia

Eriksson

2016

Land

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Conceptual advances in niche construction theory provide new perspectives and a tool-box for studies of human-environment interactions mediating what is termed anthropogenic biomes. This theory is useful also for studies on how anthropogenic biomes are perceived and valued. This paper addresses these topics using an example: "old cultural landscapes" in Scandinavia, i.e., landscapes formed by a long, dynamic and continuously changing history of management. Today, remnant habitats of this management history, such as wooded pastures and meadows, are the focus of conservation programs, due to their rich biodiversity and cultural and aesthetic values. After a review of historical niche construction processes, the paper examines current niche construction affecting these old cultural landscapes. Features produced by historical niche construction, e.g., landscape composition and species richness, are in the modern society reinterpreted to become values associated with beauty and heritage and species' intrinsic values. These non-utilitarian motivators now become drivers of new niche construction dynamics, manifested as conservation programs. The paper also examines the possibility to maintain and create new habitats, potentially associated with values emanating from historical landscapes, but in transformed and urbanized landscapes.

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Section: New Landscapes Mimicking Features Of Old Cultural Landscapesmentioning

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Historical and Current Niche Construction in an Anthropogenic Biome: Old Cultural Landscapes in Southern Scandinavia

Eriksson

2016

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“…This is akin to the 'envirosocial approach' advanced by Bartel et al (2014) in which all interests (economic, social, environmental) are ultimately inter-connected. Saltzman et al (2011) have discussed how the dominant appreciation of agriculture in Sweden is that it is part of nature rather than, as is the dominant understanding in Australia, in opposition to nature. Excluding farmers through positioning and labelling them as 'vandals' risks alienating those who may have a stronger sense and interest (as demonstrated here), and certainly are more closely positioned, to defend the environment (Bartel and Barclay, 2011 and see also Bartel, 2014).…”

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Defining environmental crime: The perspective of farmers

Barclay

Bartel

2015

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…The former encompasses and glosses over considerable spatial and temporal variability (Lourandos 1997;Keen 2003). So too, the category Anglo-European includes at least two quite different environmental sensibilities; the anti-human wilderness and conservation-focused ethic of colonising New World societies such as the USA (Nash 2001), and the more human-inclusive view of nature characteristic of Britain and northwest Europe (Saltzman et al 2011). Ethnic minority migrants' views of the Australian environment and understandings of 'nature'-including some with long-standing presences in Australia (Chinese, Indian and Afghan) -have largely been omitted from environmental research framed within this binary (exceptions are: Thomas 2001Thomas , 2002Cadzow et al 2010;Goodall et al 2012).…”

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Diversifying Ethnicity in Australia's Population and Environment Debates

Klocker

Head

2013

Australian Geographer

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Population-environment debates in Australia are at an impasse. While the ability of this continent to sustain more migrants has attracted persistent scrutiny, nuanced explorations of diverse migrant cultures and their engagements with Australian landscapes have scarcely begun. Yet as we face the challenges of a climate changing world we would undoubtedly benefit from the most varied knowledges we can muster. This paper brings together three arenas of environmental debate circulating in Australia-the immigration/carrying capacity debate, comparisons between Indigenous and Anglo-European modes of environmental interaction, and research on household sustainability dilemmas-to demonstrate the exclusionary tendencies of each. We then attempt to reorient them in productive ways, by attending to the complexity of environmental sustainability in a context of immense ethnic diversity. Attentiveness to ethnic diversity offers three important insights: (1) Anglo-European Australian understandings of nature and environmentalism are culturally specific, but other perspectives are possible; (2) tensions can arise when ethnic differences in environmental attitude or practice come into contact; and (3) cultural environmental research offers scope to identify ethnically diverse vernacular sustainability practices that should be supported. Each of these threads requires attention in a context where population-environment debates often overlook cultural complexity, and readily spiral into strident anti-immigration sentiments. Diversifying ethnicity in Australia's population and environment debates AbstractPopulation-environment debates in Australia are at an impasse. While the ability of this continent to sustain more migrants has attracted persistent scrutiny, nuanced explorations of diverse migrant cultures and their engagements with Australian landscapes have scarcely begun. Yet as we face the challenges of a climate changing world we would undoubtedly benefit from the most varied knowledges we can muster. This paper brings together three arenas of environmental debate circulating in Australia -the immigration/carrying capacity debate, comparisons between Indigenous and Anglo-European modes of environmental interaction, and research on household sustainability dilemmas -to demonstrate the exclusionary tendencies of each. We then attempt to reorient them in productive ways, by attending to the complexity of environmental sustainability in a context of immense ethnic diversity. Attentiveness to ethnic diversity offers three important insights: (1) Anglo-European Australian understandings of nature and environmentalism are culturally-specific, but other perspectives are possible; (2) tensions can arise when ethnic differences in environmental attitude or practice come into contact; and (3) cultural environmental research offers scope to identify ethnically diverse vernacular sustainability practices that should be supported. Each of these threads requires attention in a context where population-environment debates often ...

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Do cows belong in nature? The cultural basis of agriculture in Sweden and Australia

Cited by 46 publications

References 28 publications

Historical and Current Niche Construction in an Anthropogenic Biome: Old Cultural Landscapes in Southern Scandinavia

Historical and Current Niche Construction in an Anthropogenic Biome: Old Cultural Landscapes in Southern Scandinavia

Defining environmental crime: The perspective of farmers

Diversifying Ethnicity in Australia's Population and Environment Debates

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