Local Places, Global Processes
Histories of Environmental Change in Britain and Beyond
Published on 29. February 2016
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272 pages
978-1-909686-93-9 (ISBN)
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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 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 Kielder 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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Macclesfield
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 246 mm
Width: 185 mm
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978-1-909686-93-9 (9781909686939)
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Persons
Peter Coates is Professor of American and Environmental History at the University of Bristol. He is an environmental historian of the 19th and 20th century, particularly of the USA and UK. His principal research interests are in the study of human relations with the rest of the natural world over time with recent specific emphasis on energy environments and fluvial landscapes. David Moon is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. The main focus of his research has been the rural world of the Russian Empire from the 17th to the 20th centuries. His research on environmental history considers the interrelationship between the human and non-human worlds, and how people have understood this interrelationship, over time. Paul Warde is Lecturer in Environmental History at the University of Cambridge. His principal research interests are in the environmental, economic and social history of early modern and modern Europe. In particular his research focues on the use of wood as a fundamental resource in pre-industrial society; the long-term history of energy use and its relationship with economic development, and environmental and social change and the history of prediction and modeling in thinking about the environment.
Content
List of Figures
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Local Places, Global Processes: In Search of the Environment
Paul Warde, Peter Coates and David Moon
2. Three Places
Peter Coates, Paul Warde and David Moon
ENVIRONMENT AND LANDSCAPE
3. The Environment
Paul Warde
4. Landscape Character Assessment and the Quantocks during the Nuclear Age
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
B. 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
C. 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
D. CHANGE, CHOICE AND FUTURES
23. Environmental Change: A Local Perspective on Global Processes
David Moon and 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. National Trust: 'Wicken Fen Vision' (2009) [extracts]
29. Kielder Water and Forest Park: The City in the Country
Christine McCulloch
30. Nature, Cultural Choice and History
T. C. Smout
31. Concluding Reflections
David Moon, Peter Coates and Paul Warde
Acknowledgements
Timeline of Events
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Local Places, Global Processes: In Search of the Environment
Paul Warde, Peter Coates and David Moon
2. Three Places
Peter Coates, Paul Warde and David Moon
ENVIRONMENT AND LANDSCAPE
3. The Environment
Paul Warde
4. Landscape Character Assessment and the Quantocks during the Nuclear Age
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
B. 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
C. 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
D. CHANGE, CHOICE AND FUTURES
23. Environmental Change: A Local Perspective on Global Processes
David Moon and 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. National Trust: 'Wicken Fen Vision' (2009) [extracts]
29. Kielder Water and Forest Park: The City in the Country
Christine McCulloch
30. Nature, Cultural Choice and History
T. C. Smout
31. Concluding Reflections
David Moon, Peter Coates and Paul Warde
Acknowledgements
Timeline of Events
List of Contributors