Landscape controversy: a tool and educational device

Sgard, Anne

doi:10.1080/01426397.2021.2000950

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“…The polysemic nature of landscape, so central to geography (Antrop 2000, Besse 2018, is often criticized (Castiglioni et al 2022). Contrarywise, we feel that this characteristic is what allows us to consider the relationship of humans to their surroundings in a variety of ways (Sgard 2022). Landscape is actually the product of interactions between natural phenomena and human actions.…”

Section: Landscape In Relational Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A sensitive landscape at the heart of restoration Finally, undertaking a holistic restoration means not only restoring the river, but also the relationship between the inhabitants and the environment (Higgs 2003, Chan et al 2016, Dicks 2022 while paying attention to all stakeholders (Hikuroa et al 2021). Landscape is also one of the rare common themes that favor decompartmentalization and invite democratic dialogue (Sgard 2022). It is important to recognize the existence and diversity of ways of knowing and acting according to one's relationship with the world.…”

Section: Recognizing Interdependencies For Holistic Restorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Experiencing the landscape: landscape agency in a multifunctional valley after dam removal on the Sélune River, France

Germaine,

Gonin

2024

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Here, we examine landscape as an actor of ecological restoration projects rather than as a resource. Based on relational thinking and the notion of agency, we aim to identify affordances recognized by local actors and to mobilize relational thinking to understand human-river relations. Although restoration projects have mainly been tackled from the point of view of contestation and landscape attachment, we question the capacity of these operations to produce multifunctional landscapes. We analyze the way in which the radical transformation of a landscape, resulting from the removal of two hydroelectric dams, led stakeholders to act. Our results not only reveal the limits of engineering approaches that struggle to overcome the nature-culture dualism, but also the value of integrating non-humans when we consider relationships rather than only objects. We analyze how the potential uses of a valley are revealed by the radical landscape transformations brought about by an ecological restoration project. We observe how the stakeholders project themselves into this new configuration, the resulting landscape visions it inspires in them, and how new functions emerge from the relationships woven between a new landscape and its stakeholders.

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Section: Landscape In Relational Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%