Environmental Values Environmental Values
Environmental Values 18 (2009): 285-312. DOI: 10.3197/096327109X12474739376451
ABSTRACT
The creation of new wetlands along rivers as an instrument to mitigate flood risks in times of climate change seduces us to approach the landscape from a 'managerial' perspective and threatens a more place-oriented approach. How to provide ecological restoration with a broad cultural context that can help prevent these new landscapes from becoming non-places, devoid of meaning and with no real connection to our habitable world. In this paper, I discuss three possible alternative interpretations of the meaning of places and place attachment in these 'new nature' projects, and show how all three imply a different view on human identity and history.
KEYWORDS
Environmental hermeneutics, ethics of place, legible landscape, water management, Postmodernity
REFERENCES to other articles in Environmental Values:
Environmental Politics and Place Authenticity Protection. Chiara Certoma
Wildness as a Critical Border Concept: Nietzsche and the Debate on Wilderness Restoration. Martin Drenthen
Do Meaningful Relationships with Nature Contribute to a Worthwhile Life?Dan Firth
Ecological Restoration, Environmentalism and the Dutch Politics of 'New Nature'.Hein-Anton van der Heijden
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