An Alibi for Ecocide
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An apparent "success story" of Amazonian forest conservation motivates a 6-years investigation of the land sparing hypothesis. 's new book, Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World, reveals a tragic belief that agricultural intensification will solve our problems of enduring extraction of the world's biodiversity. Episode Links : Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics. Yale University Press Roser, Max. 2024. Our World in Data. Phalan BT. 2018 Sustainability. 10(6):1760. the apparent Brazilian halting of deforestation "one of the great conservation...
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Building new land relations from within the core - (Dido van Oosten)
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The Netherlands is a world leader in the industrial model of agriculture with speculation-driven land prices to match. Dido van Oosten of presents a strategy for unravelling entrenched land relations from within a place where property is sacred. Episode Links Nicholas Blomley: training program Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: . Send feedback or questions to or Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
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The People's Land Policy - (Bonnie VandeSteeg)
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Recognizing how systems of private property control new visions of land use is one thing. Working on a political process of land reform is another. Bonnie VandeSteeg of the discusses the recent program outlined in: Towards a Manifesto for Land Justice. Episode Links by Dr Bonnie VandeSteeg , 2019, UK Labour Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: . Send feedback or questions to or Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
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Holistic grazing, holistic thinking - (Nikki Yoxall)
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A recent wave of sustainability claims confidently dictate how, for what, and where we ought to use land for climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. , a self proclaimed regenerative landscape manager walks through her thinking on land use decision making and responds to these critiques. Episode Links Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: . Send feedback or questions to or Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)....
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The Visible Hand - Roz Corbett
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Normally, land owners get a powerful say in the direction of land use. But what if we could design policies such that public values of land use directed who gets to own the land? PhD student and farmer travels to France to find out. Episode Links ) Project Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode and extended shownotes can be found on Adam’s newsletter: . Send feedback or questions to . This podcast was a team effort of Tanguy Martin from Terre de Liens, Amelia Veitch from the Laboratoire...
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The Where of Law - Nicholas Blomley
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Reforming property for sustainability requires both innovation in the law as well as in how we relate to land. Legal geography is a conceptual project that describes how law and space interact. Frankie McCarthy (lawyer) and Nicholas Blomley (geographer) discuss property through the legal geography lens. Episode Links s Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: . Send feedback or questions to . Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
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Farm Subsidies and the Green Transition - Kai Heron
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Brexit produced a once a generation chance to create a wholesale reform of agricultural subsidies. Kai Heron works through what the England's new farm subsidy plan reveals about the politics of food system transformation. Episode Links . The New Statesman. By Kai Heron, Alex Heffron and Rob Booth . Spectre Journal. Kai Heron and Jodi Dean : Maria Mies, Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, Claudia von Werlhof : Sam Moyo On carbon markets and their overhype: , Buller Landscapes is produced by . A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s...
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Nature's Vote
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Episode Description Rescinding the practice of human-exceptionalism may be required to treat animals and other non-human species with more grace. But it might also be required to re-orient how we understand how the non-human world operates and thus the decisions we make that may disrupt the order of the multi-species communities we are all part of. Dr. Emma Gardner proposes an "ecological permission structure", or a parallel planning process that takes into account the needs and desires of multi-species communities. Episode Notes Gardner, E., Sheppard, A., & Bullock,...
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Transcript: Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)
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Interview Transcript: Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)* *The transcript has been edited lightly for comprehension and read-ability INTRO [00:00:38] Adam Calo: In an earlier episode of the podcast, I talked with Dr. Janet Fisher, where we discussed the rise to dominance of the ecosystem services framework and its limitations for resolving problems in landscape decision-making. Around that same time, a group of researchers made up of ecosystem modelers artists, ecologists and social scientists were getting together to ask: If the ecosystem service concept has run...
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Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)
Landscapes
A question of how to advance upon the ecosystem services concept leads to lessons learned about how to work collaboratively across disciplines. Episode Links (a blog by Beth Cole Music: Kilkerrin by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
info_outlineAs part of the work I’m doing with the Landscape Decisions Programme (https://landscapedecisions.org/), I’m producing a series of interview style podcasts about land.
The motivation of the Landscapes podcast is a trend I have been observing where scientific explorations of root causes of social and environmental problems end up focusing on land, landscapes, and land governance. This occurs in a variety of domains … those concerned with affordable housing end up looking at land taxation policy, food system scholars point out the crucial role of farmland tenure, and climate scientists target property rights as a key “lock-in” that prevents deep mitigation or adaptation. This type of thinking, the scaling up of research questions to landscape level, is what the Landscapes podcast will explore.
The first “season” of episodes will focus on learning from researchers from the humanities, law, social and biophysical sciences about how their thinking on how to study and intervene on landscapes. This might be considered the “theory” season, where I’ll try to tease out key logics underpinning land use and land use change.
The second season will concern the stories from differing forms of contested landscapes in flux, in threat, and in reform.
Landscapes aims to share stories about how re-imagining land is a precursor to delivering the types of social and ecological change required to address the most pressing problems of our time.
Full show notes, relevant links and transcripts can be found on the podcast website or at https://adamcalo.substack.com
I hope you enjoy listening to the podcast, I’d love to hear your feedback.