The Deliberative Landscapes Wanderer
Interconnectedness
by landscapewanderer | Aug 28, 2019
We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon...
Are all ecosystems meant to be forests?
by landscapewanderer | Jul 19, 2019
Are all ecosystems meant to be forests? The implied answer to this question, embedded in the way that the increasingly influential sustainable landscapes movement describes itself, is apparently “yes”. The title of one of the leading initiatives—the Global...
Living Skies, the First Leopard, and Values
by landscapewanderer | Jun 19, 2019
Values are different than interests. That difference is captured in the difference between “Why is this place important to you?” and “Why is it really important to you?”
“Stakeholders” and the Spirit of Landscape Approaches
by landscapewanderer | May 19, 2019
For several years, the signposts marking the professional path that I was on were labelled with terms such as community-based natural resource management, community-based conservation, and land tenure. Recently though I turned onto a path marked “landscape approaches”. The signposts on this path promised…
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