Landscape Migration

Milligan, Brett

doi:10.22269/150629

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“…In our work we approach landscape and coevolutionary approaches as complementary, together offering a historical framework for understanding current conditions, combined with an instrumental and integrative approach for dealing with current matters of concern (Latour, 2004a). Specifically, we attempt to identify what actors appear to play a predominant or infrastructural role in generating change or stasis in landscapes (Milligan, 2015). By identifying where and how stronger selective agency appears to reside, planning and design may begin the work of guiding these landscape assemblies towards more equitable and inclusive developmental trajectories.…”

Section: Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In working with "Delta as Evolving Place", it may be more useful to think specifically in terms of emplacements and displacements (for both humans and nonhumans) over time, which speaks more specifically to evolutions in form and occupancy (Drenthen, 2009;Ogden, 2011), landscape migration (Milligan, 2015) and the "politics of nature" (Latour, 2004b;Ogden, 2011). In the Delta, the definition of place and its evolution are inherently political, economic and tied to territorial claims.…”

Section: Accelerated Change: the Delta In The Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

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Evolving the Evolving: Territory, Place and Rewilding in the California Delta

Milligan¹,

Kraus-Polk²

2017

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Current planning and legislation in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta call for the large-scale ecological restoration of aquatic and terrestrial habitats. These ecological mandates have emerged in response to the region’s infrastructural transformation and the Delta’s predominant use as the central logistical hub in the state’s vast water conveyance network. Restoration is an attempt to recover what was externalized by the logic and abstractions of this logistical infrastructure. However, based on findings from our research, which examined how people are using restored and naturalized landscapes in the Delta and how these landscapes are currently planned for, we argue that as mitigatory response, restoration planning continues some of the same spatial abstractions and inequities by failing to account for the Delta as an urbanized, cultural and unique place. In interpreting how these conditions have come to be, we give attention to a pluralistic landscape approach and a coevolutionary reading of planning, policy, science and landscapes to discuss the conservation challenges presented by “Delta as an Evolving Place”. We suggest that for rewilding efforts to be successful in the Delta, a range of proactive, opportunistic, grounded and participatory tactics will be required to shift towards a more socio-ecological approach.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Accelerated Change: the Delta In The Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%