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Changing Landscapes, Changing Values
Third symposium – Changing Landscapes, Changing Values. 22/10/21
How does it affect us when landscapes change, or when our requirements of them change?
Landscapes undergo continual modification as a result of environmental processes, associated ecosystems services, socio-economic change and political decisions. These changes are often gradual but can be disruptive and even catastrophic: for example, Parliamentary enclosure, conifer plantation, forest and heath fires, requisition by the armed services and the construction of large-scale infrastructure such as new roads, railways, housing estates and renewable energy installations. Biographical and narrative perspectives are crucial in elucidating the affective impact of different kinds, scales and rates of landscape change and also in explaining the often-chequered history of the restoration of disused landscapes such as former mines, quarries and airbases. The symposium will also examine how narratives of local, regional and national identity reconfigure landscape preferences over time.
Click on the blue links below, download and open the file to view presentations from this symposium. These presentations have been posted with kind permission from the speakers.
‘Quarrying in the Hadrian’s Wall setting: Local loss and national preservation, c.1930-c.1960.’
Dr Gareth Roddy, Northumbria University
Dr Ben Anderson, Keele University
‘Wind, land, sea: generating power, identity and meaning in twentieth century Britain.’
Dr Marianna Dudley, University of Bristol
Dr Stacia Ryder, University of Exeter
‘Losing landscape – forest fires: mushroom, lichen and reindeer herding.’
Dr Andrew Butler, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development) ReaD Fire – Researching and Decolonising Foreset fires and Indigenous Landscape Relations (2019-01147)