Life in the DMZ: Turning a Diplomatic Failure into an Environmental Success

Brady, Lisa M.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00714.x

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“…The analysis of LCC trajectories and landscape fragmentation both at the class and landscape levels undertaken here has extended our understanding of LULCC in the WA [5, 7,9] and that of previous research on the impact of conflict on the environment [2,[11][12][13][14][15]. Our research provides the first detailed assessment of the extent and magnitude of landscape fragmentation and trajectory trends in the WA, findings that are useful to conservation planning and management efforts for WAPFoR.…”

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confidence: 86%

Impacts on the Urban Environment: Land Cover Change Trajectories and Landscape Fragmentation in Post-War Western Area, Sierra Leone

2018

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An influential underlying driver of human-induced landscape change is civil war and other forms of conflict that cause human displacement. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) increase environmental pressures at their destination locations while reducing them at their origins. This increased pressure presents an environment for increased land cover change (LCC) rates and landscape fragmentation. To test whether this hypothesis is correct, this research sought to understand LCC dynamics in the Western Area of Sierra Leone from 1976 to 2011, a period including pre-conflict, conflict, and post-conflict eras, using Landsat and SPOT satellite imagery. A trajectory analysis of classified images compared LCC trajectories before and during the war with after the war (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011). Over the 35-year period, the built-up land class rapidly increased, in parallel with an increase in urban and peri-urban agriculture. During the war, urban and peri-urban agriculture became a major livelihood activity for displaced rural residents to make the region food self-sufficient, especially when the war destabilised food production activities. The reluctance of IDPs to return to their rural homes after the war caused an increased demand for land driven by housing needs. Meanwhile, protected forest and other forest declined. A significant finding to emerge from this research is that landscape fragmentation increased in conjunction with declining forest cover while built-up areas aggregated. This has important implications for the region's flora, fauna, and human populations given that other research has shown that landscape fragmentation affects the landscape's ability to provide important ecosystem services.

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Impacts on the Urban Environment: Land Cover Change Trajectories and Landscape Fragmentation in Post-War Western Area, Sierra Leone

2018

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“…If tourists do desire a kind of post-apocalyptic naturalism this is also visually and physically corroborated by the DMZ's special eco-system (see, e.g. Brady 2008), one that is comparable to Chernobyl's. Where humans vacate, nature thrives.…”

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Zones of seeing: Artistic, touristic and digital images of the DMZ

Kennedy

2016

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture

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The article examines visual elements of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) by considering its spatial and political uniqueness and its attraction for artists and tourists. The case study is contextualized in relation to a research project-'Imaging the DMZ'-which included a visit to the 'Real DMZ' art project by Samuso Art Space (2012), which took place within the DMZ itself. The investigation into the ways that the DMZ has been imaged also includes observations of key artworks and conversations with contemporary artists from South Korea who visualize the DMZ, as well as analysis of online images of the area. The article argues that the DMZ's ambiguous, yet politically divisive, ontology is what makes it distinctive and appealing to the imagination of tourists, the media and artists, but that the latter may be best placed to highlight and challenge some of the more static, binary representations of the DMZ and of the two Koreas that circulate within the (post) digital world.

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“…In drawing out the surprising (and, depending on one's viewpoint, unsettling) parallels between nuclear testing sites and nature parks in the American West, John Wills argues that beyond the highly toxic, radioactive core, endangered species thrive: ''battered and irradiated, nature had survived the holocaust'' (2001, p. 465). Elsewhere, a re-civilianization of the Korean Demilitarized Zone would pose serious questions for the future of this so-called 'ready-made nature reserve' (Kim, 1997; see also Brady, 2008). And while David Havlick (2007) is rightly critical of some of the motivations behind the conversion of military grounds into wildlife refuges, the very fact that they are even considered for this use suggests that wildlife has survived military presence.…”

Section: Preparing For Warmentioning

confidence: 94%

Researching Militarized Landscapes: A Literature Review on War and the Militarization of the Environment

Pearson

2012

Landscape Research

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Life in the DMZ: Turning a Diplomatic Failure into an Environmental Success

Cited by 62 publications

References 1 publication

Impacts on the Urban Environment: Land Cover Change Trajectories and Landscape Fragmentation in Post-War Western Area, Sierra Leone

Impacts on the Urban Environment: Land Cover Change Trajectories and Landscape Fragmentation in Post-War Western Area, Sierra Leone

Zones of seeing: Artistic, touristic and digital images of the DMZ

Researching Militarized Landscapes: A Literature Review on War and the Militarization of the Environment

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