Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Conserving the Grey? Management of Vegetation without an End‐Point in Culturally Important Landscapes
There are fundamental difficulties in trying to apply conservation notions constructed around created objects and artefacts in which there is a clearly defined physical end point, to the management of vegetation in which meaningful endpoints are rather difficult to identify. These issues become particularly tangled when dealing with plants, not as individual specimens but as the aggregations of different species that ecologists and increasingly some landscape designers refer to as plant communities. Given the often radically different life strategies of the constituent species, it is axiomatic that there can be no final end point to manage towards, other than those that we decide to invent, and then focus our activities to attempt to hold the vegetation at this point in time. These dilemmas raise more philosophical questions as to what should we be trying to conserve via vegetation management in the first place? It seems inevitable that as our thoughts on this aspect of vegetation management evolve we should become much more interested in process and rather less on product?
Conserving the Grey? Management of Vegetation without an End‐Point in Culturally Important Landscapes
There are fundamental difficulties in trying to apply conservation notions constructed around created objects and artefacts in which there is a clearly defined physical end point, to the management of vegetation in which meaningful endpoints are rather difficult to identify. These issues become particularly tangled when dealing with plants, not as individual specimens but as the aggregations of different species that ecologists and increasingly some landscape designers refer to as plant communities. Given the often radically different life strategies of the constituent species, it is axiomatic that there can be no final end point to manage towards, other than those that we decide to invent, and then focus our activities to attempt to hold the vegetation at this point in time. These dilemmas raise more philosophical questions as to what should we be trying to conserve via vegetation management in the first place? It seems inevitable that as our thoughts on this aspect of vegetation management evolve we should become much more interested in process and rather less on product?
Conserving the Grey? Management of Vegetation without an End‐Point in Culturally Important Landscapes
Marion, Harney (Herausgeber:in) / Hitchmough, James (Autor:in)
22.04.2014
8 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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