Making Here Like There: Place Attachment, Displacement and the Urge to Garden

Brook, Isis

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“…The origin and interaction of tree species also merits consideration; particularly with regard to native, exotic, invasive, hybrid distinctions, and their ecological or anthropogenic functions. Compared to outsiders, local people tend to be less concerned with such distinctions (Rhoades 1989), instead focusing on a species' utility, of which exotic or imported species can have many (Bennett and Prance 2000;Brook 2003). But this does not downplay the fact that hundreds of exotic or alien species have become invasive in their transplanted environments, some being common agroforestry trees (Richardson et al 2004).…”

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The Policy Terrain in Protected Area Landscapes: Challenges for Agroforestry in Integrated Landscape Conservation

2006

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Integrated ecosystem and landscape approaches to conservation are moving from concept to practice in many parts of the developing world. Agroforestry -the deliberate management of trees on farms and in agricultural landscapes -is emerging as one of the most promising approaches to enhance and stabilize rural livelihoods, while reducing pressure on protected areas, enhancing habitat for some wild species, and increasing connectivity of landscape components. For the potential of agroforestry to be effectively harnessed, however, the policy and institutional environment needs to provide farmers with clear incentives to plant and protect trees that contribute to both ecosystem function and rural livelihoods. This paper analyzes the policy terrain affecting agroforestry around protected areas in five very different contexts across Sub-Saharan Africa, finding both expected and unexpected similarities. Across the sites in Uganda, Cameroon and Mali, the study revealed a rough policy terrain for agroforestry -systemic market constraints, contradictions between development approaches and conservation objectives, and inconsistencies in institutional and regulatory frameworks. Making the conservation landscape approach more effective will require that both agriculturalists and conservation planners have much greater appreciation for the conservation and livelihood potential of agroforestry.

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The Policy Terrain in Protected Area Landscapes: Challenges for Agroforestry in Integrated Landscape Conservation

2006

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“…Gardens are interfaces between domestic, private uses of space and the social and cultural expectations of conformity regarding that space (Head and Muir 2006; Askew and McGuirk 2004). Gardens also reflect a tension between ‘natural’ and ‘artifactual’ (Doolittle 2004; Brook 2003) and provide the opportunity to investigate human–nature connections within an everyday context (Head and Muir 2006; Power 2005). However, in order to understand the practices and values of the construction and transformation of nature, it is necessary to analyse the everyday practices of people in their familiar places (Castree 2004; Bhatti and Church 2001; Macnaughton and Urry 1998).…”

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Gardens and birdwatching: recreation, environmental management and human-nature interaction in an everyday location

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Prince³

2011

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“…Views expressed among our informants in both studies underscore the significance of emotion and a desire to link landscapes to a sense of place-in many cases, to a sense of "home"-as discussed in the literature introducing this paper (Armstrong 2004;Brook 2003;Measham 2006). The research thus points to links between what citizens believe belongs in nature and what they understand to be the constituents of their cultural identities.…”

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Restored Nature, Familiar Culture: Contesting Visions for Preferred Environments in Australian Cities

Trigger¹,

Head²

2010

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How are preferences for “native” and “introduced” species of plants and animals given expression in Australian cities? Given the nation's predominantly European cultural heritage, how do urban Australians articulate multiple desires for living environments encountered in everyday life? In examining the cases of inner city parks, backyards, and more general views about flora and fauna appropriate for the city, the paper considers a range of deeply enculturated attachments to familiar landscapes. While residents have considerable interest in the possibilities of urban ecological restoration, our interviews, ethnographic observation, and textual analysis also reveal cultural preferences for introduced species and emplaced attachments to historically modified landscapes. These preferences and attachments are linked to senses of identity developed during formative life experiences. In the relatively young post-settler society of Australia, such drivers of environmental desires can sit uneasily alongside science-driven propositions about what is good for biodiversity and ecological sustainability.

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Making Here Like There: Place Attachment, Displacement and the Urge to Garden

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The Policy Terrain in Protected Area Landscapes: Challenges for Agroforestry in Integrated Landscape Conservation

The Policy Terrain in Protected Area Landscapes: Challenges for Agroforestry in Integrated Landscape Conservation

Gardens and birdwatching: recreation, environmental management and human-nature interaction in an everyday location

Restored Nature, Familiar Culture: Contesting Visions for Preferred Environments in Australian Cities

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