Local places, global processes : histories of environmental change in Britain and beyond / edited by Peter Coates, David Moon and Paul Warde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coates, Peter A., 1957- editor.

Moon, David, 1959- editor.

Warde, Paul, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental conditions.

History.

Great Britain--Environmental conditions--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations (some color

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Windgather Press, an imprint of Oxbow Books, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still live in particular places. Our perceptions of change, and what kind of change might be for good or ill, are shaped by the interaction of localised experience and the wider forces of transformation. Local Places, Global Processes: Histories of Environmental Change in Britain and Beyond examines how these relationships have been shaped in Britain over time in three ways. First, through essays addressing influential ways of understanding and debating questions of 'the state of nature'. These are complemented by case studies on conservation, landscape change and management, and how perceptions of environmental change have emerged or been discarded over time. Chapters also draw on a series of site-based workshops that brought together historians, landscape managers and artists to discuss and reflect on particular sites: Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, owned by the National Trust and the first British nature reserve; the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Somerset, England's first AONB and a landscape enriched by Romantic association; and the landscape of Kidder Water and Forest, a land of superlatives in Northumberland in north-eastern England - the largest planted forest and artificial lake in northern Europe. The multi-disciplinary approach draws together the exchanges, artworks and writing assembled at these workshops and afterwards. This opens up how being in a place, and engaging with ideas attached to it, shape perceptions of the environment. It provides resources with which landscape managers can think about their tasks and engage various publics in discussion about future environments in light of these histories of place. Rather than a history of these three places, this is history written from them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Local Places, Global Processes: In Search of the Environment / David Moon

2. Three Places / David Moon

Environment and Landscape

3. The Environment / Paul Warde

4. Landscape Character Assessment: A View from the Quantocks / Emma-Jane Preece

5. The Curious Case of the Missing History at Kielder / Richard Oram

6. Birds and Squirrels as History / T.C. Smout

7. The `Nature' of `Artificial' Forests / Chris Pearson

Places

8. Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost: Walking in the Quantock Hills / Marianna Dudley

9. An Amphibious Culture: Coping with Floods in the Netherlands / Petra J.E.M. van Dam

10. Names and Places / Paul Warde

11. Constructing the Kielder Landscape: Plantations, Dams and the Romantic Ideal / Jill Payne

12. The Kielder Oral History Project: Three Case Studies / Leona Jayne Skelton

13. Wild Britannia: Environmental History, Wildlife Television and New Publics in Britain / Robert A. Lambert

Art Inserts

14. John Clare, Drainage and Printmaking / Carry Akroyd

15. Landscape and the Artist in Twenty-First Century Britain / Jenny Graham

16. Kielder: A Planned Wilderness / Peter Sharpe

Beauty and Aesthetics

17. Beauty and the Aesthetics of Place, Nature and Environment / Peter Coates

18. Light on Landscape: An Antipodean View / Libby Robin

19. `Beauty and the Motorway

The Problem for All': Motoring through the Quantocks Area of Natural Beauty / Tim Cole

20. The Beautiful and the Global / Petra J.E.M. van Dam

21. Reservoirs, Military Bases and Environmental Change: Joining the Dots / Chris Pearson

22. Species Conservation at Kielder: Animating Place with Animals / Duncan Hutt

Change, Choice and Futures

23. Environmental Change: A Local Perspective on Global Processes / Leona Jayne Skelton

24. Hidden History: Kielder's Early Modern Landscape / Matt Greenhall

25. Waterlands to Wonderlands / Paul Warde

26. Kielder Dam and Reservoir / Jonty Hall

27. Kielder Forest / Graham Gill

28. `Wicken Fen Vision' (2009: extracts) / National Trust

29. Kielder Water and Forest Park: The City in the Country / Christine McCulloch

30. Nature, Cultural Choice and History / T.C. Smout.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781909686946

1909686948

Publisher Number:

99984436366

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