Providing New Environmental Skills for British Farmers

Curry, Nigel

doi:10.1006/jema.1996.0100

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“…It has long been recognised that farmers need new knowledge and skills to take on the demands of sustainable agriculture (Winter 1997) but the suggestion has been that such knowledge is poorly developed due to the continued 'productivist modes of thinking' within the farming community (Curry 1997;Pyrovetsi and Daoutopoulos 1999;Wilson 2001). Today concern remains about whether farmers have the right skills set to deliver the Government's goals for sustainable farming (Defra 2004c;University of Reading 2005).…”

Section: Farmers' Knowledge About Soil and Its Sustainable Managementmentioning

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Are farmers in England equipped to meet the knowledge challenge of sustainable soil management? An analysis of farmer and advisor views

Ingram

2008

Journal of Environmental Management

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Section: Farmers' Knowledge About Soil and Its Sustainable Managementmentioning

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Are farmers in England equipped to meet the knowledge challenge of sustainable soil management? An analysis of farmer and advisor views

Ingram

2008

Journal of Environmental Management

112

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“…Users will be more likely to accept changes to their traditional activities if they have direct participation in the decision-making process with the needed consultation (GILMAN, 2002;CURRY, 1997).…”

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Seeking the factors to stimulate the users in coastal zones planning. Case study: Open discussions with mussel farmers in the Axios river (GR)

2005

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In the framework of an integrated coastal zone management, the involvement of users is required and “open discussions” is one of the techniques used for their participation. The authors used this technique during a project for the sustainable development of mussel-culture in the coastal zone of the Axios Delta. Open discussion contributed to the acceptance of the scientific results by the users of the aquatic environment (mussel-farmers) who addressed trade-offs in their own way. The majority of their arguments were incorporated in the formation of the management rules, presented in the final report of this project. The present paper summarizes this experience as well as the existing ways for the involvement of users in a decision planning process and demonstrates how open discussion is a prerequisite factor for the success of sustainable development planning in Greece.

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“…Tyrva¨inen et al, 2006), those few that have been carried out in the Irish landscape have taken a more anthropological approach, where the researcher is embedded in the community for some time (O'Rourke, 2005). Still others favour targeted interviews with key stakeholders such as farmers (Curry, 1997). However, there are very few studies that focus on specific social-ecological topics such as hedgerows in England (Oreszczyn & Lane, 2000) and turloughs in Ireland (Visser et al, 2007).…”

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Industrially Harvested Peatlands and After-use Potential: Understanding Local Stakeholder Narratives and Landscape Preferences

Collier

Scott

2008

Landscape Research

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Recent years have witnessed much debate on the turn towards community within landscape management and planning. This is particularly evident in the European Landscape Convention which asserts the legitimacy of local preferences and citizen involvement in policy processes. This paper explores a bottom-up perspective on people-place relationships in a changing landscape, through assessing the after-use potential of industrially mined peatlands in Ireland and the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes. The mining of the peatland resource has a longstanding tradition in Ireland, however, significant attention has now focused on exploring market and non-market uses of remains after harvesting has finished resulting in a cutaway landscape. We argue that local people's everyday experiences of the landscape is a legitimate form of knowledge and should provide a key input into deliberative planning and management processes. Drawing largely on an interpretive research approach, we assess key local narratives in relation to harvested peatland landscapes and explore local people's after-use preferences. There appears to be strong support among the local community for amenity/biodiversity after-uses, which are currently not reflected in public policy debates. We review people-place relationships and discuss the role of ethnographic research in a peatland context as well as defining the relevant stakeholders. Finally, conclusions are developed to identify wider lessons for people/place relationships within the context of landscape management and planning.

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Providing New Environmental Skills for British Farmers

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

Are farmers in England equipped to meet the knowledge challenge of sustainable soil management? An analysis of farmer and advisor views

Are farmers in England equipped to meet the knowledge challenge of sustainable soil management? An analysis of farmer and advisor views

Seeking the factors to stimulate the users in coastal zones planning. Case study: Open discussions with mussel farmers in the Axios river (GR)

Industrially Harvested Peatlands and After-use Potential: Understanding Local Stakeholder Narratives and Landscape Preferences

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