Beauty: A<i>Lingua Franca</i>for Environmental Law?

Richardson, Benjamin J.; Barritt, Emily; Bowman, Megan

doi:10.1017/s2047102518000195

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“…Within environmental philosophy, there is more attention to environmental ethics than aesthetics, but several scholars have been interested in showing how the two are connected. This connection is made by exploring whether and to what extent aesthetic experience and value may be said to support moral attitudes toward the environment (Brady, 2003; Carlson, 2010, 2018; Carlson & Lintott, 2008; Richardson, Barritt, & Bowman, 2019; Saito, 2017a; Welchman, 2018). For example, the position known as ‘aesthetic preservationism’ holds that through the sensitive perception characteristic of aesthetic attention and the discovery of beauty, majesty and so on, people may develop care and respect for nature.…”

Section: Aesthetics Environmental Conservation and Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental aesthetics: A synthetic review

Brady

Prior

2020

People and Nature

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Environmental aesthetics has emerged in the last 50 years from the philosophical fields of aesthetics and environmental philosophy. The questions and issues which shape this subfield have been drawn principally from the Western philosophical tradition. Other disciplinary perspectives have also shaped environmental aesthetics, including landscape architecture, human geography, restoration ecology and empirical studies on landscape preferences in developmental and environmental psychology. This review and synthesis mainly addresses the theoretical approaches and concepts that provide a framework to the key debates in the field, but also considers, to some extent, how empirical approaches have shaped recent developments, and how conceptual issues arise with respect to empirical cases. We note that our expertize and, thus, the expertize of this review, is primarily confined to UK, European and North American scholarship. Abstract 1. The main aim of the article is to provide up-to-date knowledge of environmental aesthetics for an interdisciplinary audience, and to signal the importance of research in this area for studying people-nature relationships. 2. Environmental aesthetics has emerged in the last 50 years from the philosophical fields of aesthetics and environmental philosophy. Other disciplinary perspectives have also shaped environmental aesthetics, including landscape architecture, human geography, restoration ecology and empirical studies on landscape preferences in developmental and environmental psychology.3. This review and synthesis mainly addresses the theoretical approaches and concepts that provide a framework to the key debates in the field, but also considers how empirical approaches have shaped recent developments, and how conceptual issues arise with respect to empirical cases. 4. We outline the background and context of environmental aesthetics, its key concepts, and provide a critical review of contemporary theories in the field. We then consider how aesthetics features in issues pertaining to the conservation, preservation, and restoration of nature.5. Finally, we identify some new directions for environmental aesthetics scholarship that can productively contribute to ongoing debates regarding various relationships between people and nature.

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Section: Aesthetics Environmental Conservation and Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental aesthetics: A synthetic review

Brady

Prior

2020

People and Nature

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“…Similarly, aesthetic values will play a significant role in multispecies design, framing data collection and interpretation as well as governance (Richardson et al, 2018) and planning.…”

Section: More-than-human Aestheticsmentioning

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Multispecies Cohabitation and Future Design

Roudavski¹

2020

Proceedings of DRS

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The ongoing COVID 19 epidemic is but one demonstration of what can happen to health and wellbeing if planning and designing do not engage with nonhuman life and whole ecosystems. This paper argues that design researchers should consider multispecies cohabitation and more-than-human cultures in all designs of future settlements. This position is inspired by existing projects for 'nonhuman clients' undertaken by the Deep Design Lab and its collaborators. These include designs of artificial replacements for bird nests (Fig. 1) (Roudavski & Parker, 2020), designs of artificial structures to replace disappearing keystone habitats such as large old trees (Fig. 2), analyses of existing trees in terms of their affordances for nonhuman life (Fig. 3) including their heritage value (Roudavski & Rutten, 2020), development of intelligent lighting systems to combat environmental light pollution (Fig. 4) as well as designs for insects, mosses and urban marine life. A recurrent theme in these projects is the need to achieve persistent modifications in behaviours, traditions, and cultures of human and nonhuman cohabitants. If the efforts to make human-populated environment more hospitable to nonhuman life will prove to be

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“…Natural beauty is a complex and subjective concept ( Selman and Swanwick, 2010 ), yet it forms the basis of the legal underpinnings of worldwide protected landscape designation ( Richardson et al, 2018 ). Despite this remarked upon but often unacknowledged ambiguity, the concept informs the core aims of UK AONBs and National Parks; to protect and enhance natural beauty.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Establishing a functional framework for monitoring protected landscapes; with a case study of English Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)

Horswill

Martin

Guy

2020

Ecological Indicators

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Highlights 158 indicators were identified from a total of 600 identified in the initial data collection. There were an average of an additional 29 indicators, beyond FMEOPL per AONB management plan. An average of 12 of the 22 regular indicators were presented in AONB management plans. 100% of AONB management plans identified climate change adaptation as a primary issue.

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Beauty: ALingua Francafor Environmental Law?

Cited by 10 publications

References 32 publications

Environmental aesthetics: A synthetic review

Environmental aesthetics: A synthetic review

Multispecies Cohabitation and Future Design

Establishing a functional framework for monitoring protected landscapes; with a case study of English Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)

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