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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
wiley   +1 more source

Remaking place relations for social‐ecological restoration: Reflections on placemaking in South Africa

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological restoration is an ongoing relational process involving interconnected reciprocal social and biophysical interactions that shift and change over time and space. Conceptual literature proposes that placemaking can deepen and enhance the understanding and implementation of social‐ecological restoration processes as part of broader ...
Ancois de Villiers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowing Nature in the City: Reporting infrastructures and the politics of urban human–nature relationships

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Cities increasingly know nature through citizen‐generated data—municipal complaint hotlines, contributory biodiversity platforms and other reporting systems. These data are not neutral records of urban nature but social products, shaped by who reports, through what channels and why.
Eran N. Schwarzfuchs   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The monster in the backyard: A cultural analysis of wolf conflict in the American West

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Conflict between people and large carnivores remains among the most persistent problems in conservation, threatening carnivore populations and the communities that live alongside them. Decades of technical and financial research and intervention, from livestock protection tools to compensation programs, have not resolved these conflicts ...
Alex McInturff, Michael L. McInturff
wiley   +1 more source

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