Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management: Scandinavian and Australian Perspectives on Peoples and Landscapes

ISBN-13: 9780367668150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

Lesley Head; Katarina Saltzman; Gunhild Setten

Opis

This book uses a varieties of temporalities to explore how different concepts of nature and time are embedded in diverse human practices of landscape and environmental management. Scandinavian and Australian perspectives make important intellectual contributions as their peripheral position means they can throw a different light on pervasive issues

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION

1. Holding on and letting go: nature, temporality and environmental management

PART I: Imagining new environmental futures and entwined pasts

2. The outside within: the shifting ontological practice of the environment in Australia

3. Landscape, temporality and responsibility: making conceptual connections through alien invasive species

4. Presence of absence, absence of presence, and extinction narratives

5. The view from off-centre: Sweden and Australia in the imaginative discourse of the Anthropocene

PART II: Living with nature in motion

6. The co-presence of past and future in the practice of environmental management: implications for rural-amenity landscapes

7. Wild Tradition: hunting and nature in regional Sweden and Australia

8. Managing nature in the home garden

PART III: Indigenous challenges to environmental imaginaries

9. Indigenous land claims and multiple landscapes: Postcolonial openings in Finnmark, Norway

10. Mining as colonisation: the need for restorative justice and restitution of traditional Sami lands

PART IV: Temporalities of environmental management

11. Challenges in agricultural land management – a Scandinavian perspective on contextual variations and farmers’ room to manoeuvre

12. Performing natures: adaptive management practice in the ‘eternally unfolding present’

13. How to bring historical forms into the future? An exploration of Swedish semi-natural grasslands

O autorze

Lesley Head is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Head of the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Katarina Saltzman is Associate Professor at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Gunhild Setten is Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Marie Stenseke is Professor in Human Geography at the Department of Economy and Society, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Fellow of The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.