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Wildlife Corridors: An Urban Political Ecology
Wildlife corridors constitute one of a number of increasingly influential strategic nature conservation tools deployed in urban greenspace planning. The following paper develops an urban political ecology approach to understand wildlife corridors as quasi-objects that play a key role in articulating between the realms of ecology and planning. Interrogating the planning narrative surrounding a contentious brownfield development on an ecologically sensitive site reveals how the wildlife corridor established a particular version of urban nature materially and discursively. Ecological surveying and mapping practices were integral in freeing up the majority of the site for development, reproducing the conditions necessary for capitalist development. It is argued that the wildlife corridor exerts considerable power over what counts as nature in the city, for whom and where, raising a series of questions for the political ecology of conservation planning.
Wildlife Corridors: An Urban Political Ecology
Wildlife corridors constitute one of a number of increasingly influential strategic nature conservation tools deployed in urban greenspace planning. The following paper develops an urban political ecology approach to understand wildlife corridors as quasi-objects that play a key role in articulating between the realms of ecology and planning. Interrogating the planning narrative surrounding a contentious brownfield development on an ecologically sensitive site reveals how the wildlife corridor established a particular version of urban nature materially and discursively. Ecological surveying and mapping practices were integral in freeing up the majority of the site for development, reproducing the conditions necessary for capitalist development. It is argued that the wildlife corridor exerts considerable power over what counts as nature in the city, for whom and where, raising a series of questions for the political ecology of conservation planning.
Wildlife Corridors: An Urban Political Ecology
Evans, James P. (author)
Local Environment ; 12 ; 129-152
2007-04-01
24 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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