Landscapes

More is Less? - Michael Grunwald

Michael Grunwald is an environmental journalist who sees maximizing efficient production as the most important sustainability strategy. His book, "We Are Eating the Earth

The Afterlives of Coal

Even as efforts to transition Appalachia out of coal receive broad policy support, the fate of the landscape is ultimately driven by incumbent actors used to getting what

An Alibi for Ecocide

An apparent "success story" of Amazonian forest conservation motivates a 6-years investigation of the land sparing hypothesis. Dr. Gregory Thaler's new book, Saving a Rai

Building new land relations from within the core - (Dido van Oosten)

The Netherlands is a world leader in the industrial model of agriculture with speculation-driven land prices to match. Dido van Oosten of Stitchting Kapitaloceen presents

The People's Land Policy - (Bonnie VandeSteeg)

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 t

Holistic grazing, holistic thinking - (Nikki Yoxall)

A recent wave of sustainability claims confidently dictate how, for what, and where we ought to use land for climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Nikki Yoxal

The Visible Hand - Roz Corbett

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 t

The Where of Law - Nicholas Blomley

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

Farm Subsidies and the Green Transition - Kai Heron

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 reveal

Nature's Vote

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 r

Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)

A question of how to advance upon the ecosystem services concept leads to lessons learned about how to work collaboratively across disciplines.   Episode Links Less

Contested GM Worldviews - (Andrew Flachs)

An article in Scientific American bringing a science and technology studies lens to Genetically Modified Organisms, provoked louder than normal responses from the pro bio

An Agroecological Vision for the United Kingdom - (Jyoti Fernandes)

Jyoti Fernandes, farmer of Five Penny Farms and Policy Coordinator with the UK based Landworkers' Alliance, discusses what agroecology means to her and the efforts to sha

The Role of the Arts on Landscape Science - (Ewan Allinson)

Too much expert-led decision making has long been shown to deliver perverse outcomes for the environment and society. What if a more earnest collaboration with artists an

The Dasgupta Review - (Janet Fisher)

The past decades have seen the rise to dominance of the ecosystem services framework, a worldview and scientific practice that sees the processes of the biosphere through

A Human Rights Approach to Land - (Kirsteen Shields)

The second episode of Landscapes features an interview with Dr Kirsteen Shields, Lecturer in International Law and Food Security at the Global Academy of Agriculture and

The Parable of Portobello - (Malcolm Combe)

Notions of Land Reform, especially when looking historically, bring forth images of mass upheaval and unrest associated with nationalization and redistribution of resourc

Landscapes Podcast Trailer

As 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. T