Maintaining the integrity of the French terroir: a study of critical natural capital in its cultural context

Douguet, Jean-Marc; O’Connor, Martin

doi:10.1016/s0921-8009(02)00276-8

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“…The key motivations are that process-pattern relationships are better understood at the landscape scale, and that local stakeholders seem to have a more acute perception of the concept of "landscape" than of "ecosystem" (Setten et al, 2012). For the same reason, especially in wine-producing regions of the world, it may make sense to use the common concept of "terroir" (Douguet and O'Connor, 2003;Deloire et al, 2005;Rouvellac, 2008), to which the public relates readily. Like the term of "Landschaft" used in German-speaking countries, "terroir" encompasses both the landscape and the people who inhabit it, and also to some extent the "character of the land" and the bond between nature and people.…”

Section: Soils Initially Left Out Of the Ecosystem Services Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Baveye

Gowdy

2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Section: Soils Initially Left Out Of the Ecosystem Services Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Baveye

Gowdy

2016

Front. Environ. Sci.

303

168

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“…The French use of terroir shows a strong desire to maintain the integrity of environmental spaces and ecosystems, the quality of food, and the identity and integrity of organisms (Douguet & O'Connor, ); in other words, to care for the land that produces valued crops. Terroir originally established a connection between those who love wine and the soils that produce the fruits to produce those wines, but this has been extended to many other food products, including cacao, cheese, coffee, fruits, olive oil and vegetables (Vaudour, Costantini, Jones & Mocali, ).…”

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Connecting the public with soil to improve human health

Brevik

Steffan

Rodrigo‐Comino

et al. 2019

European J Soil Science

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Despite the definite links between soil and human health, it is likely that most people do not think about soil when considering human health. There is a disconnect between most people in our modern society and soil, and when people notice soil it is often in a negative context. People care for things that matter to them, and creating a more positive public image of soil could improve human health by leading to better treatment and understanding of the soil resource. There are a number of concepts that may be able to connect people to the soil, including terroir, soil health and soil security. While terroir originally established a connection between those who appreciate wine and the soils that produce those wines, the concept has been expanded to many additional products. It might be possible to provide a terroir link to human health benefits if they can be shown to be characteristic of a given soil environment. The concept of soil health has caught on with many farmers, policymakers, scientists and the general public, thus providing another possible approach to improve peoples’ connection with soil. Soil security is a recent concept that has been advanced as a way to take advantage of the connection that concepts such as energy, food and water security have made with policymakers. Therefore, we advocate a concerted effort to investigate terroir, soil health and soil security as concepts to improve overall human health. Soil health and soil security might have the most promise, and some social marketing campaigns that include soil health are ongoing. Highlights Soil is important to human health. A disconnect exists between the urban population and soil. Education about soil can rebuild these connections. Concepts such as terroir, soil health or soil security might help make connections.

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“…Following Chiesura and de Groot (2003), the natural capital concept could have been used 'as a short hand, a sort of metaphor to allow the exploration of a system approach with three fundamentally different, but nevertheless interrelated clusters of variables: ecological, economic and socio-cultural' (p. 221) but it was not. Our 'patrimony' could have been articulated as a carrier of cultural meaning as well as of our life support system (Douget & O'Connor, 2003) but it was not and neither could it have been given the way LtL was managed. Ironically, in viewing a picture of woodland on the Holme Lacy college web site, we are invited to see beyond the wood and the trees, beyond an economic resource and business opportunity.…”

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Education for sustainable development, natural capital and sustainability:Learning to Last

Blewitt

2005

Environmental Education Research

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This paper explores the use of metaphor in public policy and learning as a context for a reflective discussion of a nationally funded initiative focusing on the dissemination of good practice in education for sustainable development in the UK's post-16 sector. Learning to Last was the first, and so far only, project of its kind. Its conception and management epitomised the use of the toolkit metaphor, and reinforced and reproduced the instrumental rationality characterising educational governance and public management in the UK. The potential for metaphor or metaphorical concepts such as natural capital to articulate and stimulate new ways of thinking and behaving or even possibly offering a glimpse of a paradigmatic shift in institutional policy and practice relating to education and sustainability was not fully realised. On metaphorLakoff and Johnson (1999) have argued that metaphor is deeply rooted in our experience of the world, effectively enabling us to make sense of it in various literal and non-literal ways. Although it is quite possible to think and even to reason without metaphors, it is only by applying particularly complex ones that we are able to explore and develop these understandings of the environment and our place within it. Additionally, significant portions of the linguistic expressions we use evoke mental imagery and in many instances words are frequently supplemented with a whole feast of visual signifiers, symbols, icons that serve a range of cultural, political and epistemic functions. We can envisage a toolkit while simultaneously drawing on a stock of experiential knowledge and assumptions about its purpose-tools to do a job, fix or make something. 'Toolkit' suggests the doing of something practical in a given period of time. In this way, linguistic and visual metaphors may at various times promote

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Maintaining the integrity of the French terroir: a study of critical natural capital in its cultural context

Cited by 18 publications

References 11 publications

Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Connecting the public with soil to improve human health

Education for sustainable development, natural capital and sustainability:Learning to Last

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