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Landscapes

It all comes back to land. Landscapes is an interview style podcast about the role of land in society and the environment, presented by Adam Calo.

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01:00:36

The Afterlives of Coal

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2025/08/15

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 they want. Dr Lindsay Shade and Dr Karen Rignall discuss their research about how legacies of land ownership frustrate equitable and effective transition strategies. While an "Abundance" argument suggests that "the Democratic fetish for legalistic procedure has in so many places, made it impossible to get stuff done," the

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01:13:43

An Alibi for Ecocide

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2024/06/28

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 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 Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World: Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics. Yale University Press Roser, Max. 2024. Why Is Improving

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54:17

Building new land relations from within the core -...

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2024/03/21

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 a strategy for unravelling entrenched land relations from within a place where property is sacred. Episode Links Nicholas Blomley: Performing Property: Making the World Mietshäuser Syndikat De Warmonderhof training program Land van Ons Vrijcoop collective housing project Landscapes is produced by Adam Calo. A complete written

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55:12

The People's Land Policy - (Bonnie VandeSteeg)

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2023/12/27

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 People's Land Policy discusses the recent program outlined in: Towards a Manifesto for Land Justice. Episode Links Land for What? Land for Whom? by Dr Bonnie VandeSteeg Towards a Manifesto for Land Justice A People's food policy from the Land Worker's Alliance Scottish Land Commission Liverpool Land Commission Southwark Land

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01:13:05

Holistic grazing, holistic thinking - (Nikki Yoxall)

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2023/12/11

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 Yoxall, a self proclaimed regenerative landscape manager walks through her thinking on land use decision making and responds to these critiques. Episode Links Food without agriculture, Nature Sustainability Guthman on the problems with localism DeLind on the problems with localism Phil Loring – deeper meaning of regen ag Understanding

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36:12

The Visible Hand - Roz Corbett

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2023/09/08

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 Roz Corbett travels to France to find out. Episode Links Public consultation on the Proposed Land Ownership and Public Interest (Scotland) Bill (closes 12th September 2023) Scotland’s Rural Land Market insights (Scottish Land Commission) Tim Lang, Feeding Britain Terre des Liens How the

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52:05

The Where of Law - Nicholas Blomley

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2023/08/03

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 Frankie McCarthy Nicholas Blomley Remember property? Progress in Human Geography A Statement of Progressive Property State v Shack case Performing Property: Making The

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01:12:09

Farm Subsidies and the Green Transition - Kai Heron

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2023/07/24

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 Kai Heron on Twitter You can’t eat profits: A democratic vision for England’s tormented farmlands. The New Statesman. By Kai Heron, Alex Heffron and Rob Booth Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition. Spectre Journal. Kai Heron and Jodi Dean ELMS

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01:08:58

Nature's Vote

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2023/04/28

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

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Transcript: Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth...

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2022/09/26

Interview Transcript: Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)* Listen here *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

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Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)

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2022/09/23

A question of how to advance upon the ecosystem services concept leads to lessons learned about how to work collaboratively across disciplines. Episode Links Lesson’s Learned Writing (a blog by Beth Cole Is interdisciplinarity a mashup? Beth Cole social media The Landscapes Decisions Program Music: Kilkerrin by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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01:20:34

Contested GM Worldviews - (Andrew Flachs)

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2022/05/04

An article in Scientific American bringing a science and technology studies lens to Genetically Modified Organisms, provoked louder than normal responses from the pro biotech crowd. What can we learn from the exchange? Dr Andrew Flachs, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University, studied the role of seeds on farmer livelihoods in rural India as part of his book, Cultivating Knowledge. We discuss the arguments of the article and its malcontents to try and reach a broader understanding

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Transcript: Contested GM Worldviews - (Andrew Flachs)

Landscapes ·

2022/05/02

Transcript for the Landscapes Podcast Episode 6. Published May 2022 *The transcript has been edited lightly for clarity and comprehension Intro [00:00:00] Adam Calo: In December of 2021, an article in Scientific American titled How Biotech Crops Can Crash—and Still Never Fail, laid out an argument critiquing the promotion of genetically modified seeds and associated crop biotechnologies. I would characterize the general contours of the GM debate as fairly siloed. Biotechnological solutions to

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Transcript: An Agroecological Vision for the United...

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2021/05/11

Landscapes Podcast Episode 5. May 2021 *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension INTRO Adam Calo: [00:00:17] The largest contemporary social movement in the world is arguably La Via Campesina, a global organization of peasant and smallholders that represents over 200 million constituent farmers across 81 countries and through 182 local chapters and national organizations. For academics and decision makers interested in designing landscape policy that meets the needs of

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01:03:16

An Agroecological Vision for the United Kingdom -...

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2021/05/10

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 shape food policy in the United Kingdom. We also discuss the risk of agroecology being co-opted and the current boycott of the UN Food Systems Summit. Episode Links Five Penny Farms, Dorset Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Scientists Boycott the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit Jyoti testifying at the EU Parliament in 2015 Raj

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Transcript: The Role of the Arts on Landscape Science...

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2021/04/14

Transcript: The role of arts on landscape science - (Ewan Allinson) – Landscapes Podcast April 2021 *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension INTRO If you look at any major environmental problem today, I believe part of its origin story can be attributed to the consequence of some expert-led decision-making process. Undoubtedly, these experts assessed the available evidence and made recommendations to policy makers, claiming that adherence to their remedies and recipes

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01:11:56

The Role of the Arts on Landscape Science - (Ewan...

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2021/04/14

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 and the arts is the secret ingredient to unlocking a more egalitarian science and society relationship? Independent sculptor, dry stone waller, and landscape partnership innovator Ewan Allinson, discusses the role of the arts in landscape decision making. Episode Links The Hefted to Hill project, as part of the Northern Heartlands

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01:17:11

The Dasgupta Review - (Janet Fisher)

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2021/03/23

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 lens of how they prop up human activities. Within academic circles, the concept is hotly contested. Some see valuing nature with the language of neoclassical economics as the only way to motivate governments and corporate actors into doing responsible environmental action. Others see concepts of ecosystem services and natural

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Transcript: The Dasgupta Review with Janet Fisher

Landscapes ·

2021/03/23

Landscapes - The Dasgupta Review - [Janet Fisher] Transcript [ep.3] *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension Introduction Adam Calo: [00:00:27] Researchers in the environmental sciences spend a lot of effort evaluating the diversity of frameworks that guide land use management. Consider on the one hand making some change to the land based on a deep multi-generational local ecological knowledge, where wisdom passed on through narratives and myths instill a common

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Transcript: A Human Rights Approach to Land with...

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2021/02/18

Transcript - EP2 - A Human Rights Approach to Land with Kirsteen Shields *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension Adam Calo: My research is all about the problem of access to farmland. The whole premise is that without secure long-term access to quality farmland, the types of sustainable agriculture that we can propose, run experiments on, or fantasize about are really just a pipe dream. In the United States, I'm most familiar with the types strategies to provide land

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