Geoff A Wilson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 934824 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Geoff A Wilson |
| NOMBRES | Geoff A |
| APELLIDO | Wilson |
| FIRMA | WILSON G A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5703-9710 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 954 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Lock-ins and community resilience
Tourism, especially in the European Alps, contributes to rural livelihood and depends on farming to preserve the landscape. The symbiosis is also expected to strengthen community resilience, conceptualized as a combination of economic, social, cultural, political and natural domains. The interplay of these domains may result in path dependencies driven by lock-in effects, beyond which controlled development is basically not possible. In our study…
Soil erosion in East Africa
Implementation of socially acceptable and environmentally desirable solutions to soil erosion challenges is often limited by (1) fundamental gaps between the evidence bases of different disciplines and (2) an implementation gap between science-based recommendations, policy makers and practitioners. We present an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to support co-design of land management policy tailored to the needs of specific communities and …
Community resilience in rural China
The resilience and vulnerability of remote mountain communities
Environmental Issues in Rural Areas
While urban areas have received much academic and media attention with regard to environmental issues and threats, it is often thought that rural areas have been less affected by recent environmental challenges. Yet, in a globalizing world most rural areas have faced unprecedented environmental risks in recent years that are threatening the survival and resilience of many rural systems. This entry reviews human environmental interactions in rural…
Resilience and Human Geography
The notion of “resilience” has begun to influence research by human geographers, and human geographers, in turn, have begun to shape thinking about the meaning and significance of resilience. This entry outlines the scientific genesis of the concept, and then focuses specifically on contributions to resilience research by social scientists and human geographers. The entry demonstrates that resilience – much like “sustainability” – remains a relat…
Managing sino-ghanaian fishery relations
Multifunctional intervention and market rationality in agricultural governance
Pre- and post-installation community perceptions of wind farm projects
Neo-productivist’ agriculture
Community resilience and land degradation in forest and shrubland socio-ecological systems
Community resilience
Adopting a framework based on ‘social resilience', this paper analyses path dependency in community resilience, with a specific emphasis on endogenous pathways of change. Path dependencies are shaped by ‘lock-in’ effects which shoehorn communities into positive or negative pathways of change. Of particular importance are ‘structural lock-in effects’, ‘economic lock-in effects’ and ‘socio-psychological lock-ins’ which make certain community pathwa…
Community resilience, policy corridors and the policy challenge
Community resilience, social memory and the post‐2010 C hristchurch ( N ew Z ealand) earthquakes
This article explores the importance of social memory for community resilience pathways in the city of C hristchurch ( N ew Z ealand) in the wake of the post‐2010 earthquakes. Specific emphasis is placed on understanding how past earthquake history in C hristchurch has influenced knowledge about, and responses to, the recent series of earthquakes. Building on previous work about possible impacts of social memory on community resilience, the paper…
Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions
This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of ‘resilience’ and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to deal with disturbances (natural hazards or human-made) that may threaten their long-term survival. Using global examples, specific emphasis is placed on how learning processes, traditions, policies and politics affect the resilience of commun…
Local rural product as a ‘relic’ spatial strategy in globalised rural spaces
Community resilience, globalization, and transitional pathways of decision-making
Climbers' narratives of mountain spaces above 8000 metres
This article analyses narratives used by mountaineers experiencing mountain spaces above 8000 metres. Adopting a social constructivist perspective, the article focuses on published narratives by established mountaineers (focusing on Everest and K2), with the aim of exploring perceived notions of mountain spaces above 8000 metres as psychological and geographical physical and mental thresholds. By discussing specific narratives associated with tec…
The contested environmental governance of Maori-owned native forests in South Island, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Multifunctional 'quality' and rural community resilience
The aim of this paper is to contribute towards emergent debates on the 'quality' of multifunctional trajectories in rural development. The focus will be placed on the local rural community level, as it is at this level that multifunctionality is most often implemented. There has been an identified need for a new concept of multifunctionality that is conceptually and theoretically better anchored in current debates on agricultural/rural change, an…
The spatiality of multifunctional agriculture
Some things old, some things new
Theorising Transitional Pathways in Response to Climate Change
The carbon economy has emerged over the last decade as an important but controversial development in the harnessing of economics to address the challenge of climate change. In this paper we utilise the concepts of policy change and transition theorisations to analyse carbon commodification within the broader range of possible responses to the climate problem. We argue that the neoliberal, technocentric, and ecological modernisation values underpi…
From ‘weak’ to ‘strong’ multifunctionality
Confronting environments
Injecting social psychology theory into conceptualisations of agricultural agency
Multifunctional 'quality' and rural community resilience
The aim of this paper is to contribute towards emergent debates on the 'quality' of multifunctional trajectories in rural development. The focus will be placed on the local rural community level, as it is at this level that multifunctionality is most often implemented. There has been an identified need for a new concept of multifunctionality that is conceptually and theoretically better anchored in current debates on agricultural/rural change, an…
Community resilience, globalization, and transitional pathways of decision-making
From ‘weak’ to ‘strong’ multifunctionality
Farmer environmental attitudes and ESA participation
The spatiality of multifunctional agriculture
Some things old, some things new
Financial Imperative or Conservation Concern? EU Farmers' Motivations for Participation in Voluntary Agri-Environmental Schemes
Based on a large transnational research project that involved questionnaires with 1000 farm households in nine EU countries and Switzerland, this paper investigates factors influencing farmers' participation in agri-environmental schemes (AESs). Analysis of motivations for AES participation highlights that complex patterns of AESs are in operation. Pronounced geographical differences in farmers' reactions towards schemes can be identified, with r…
The Australian Landcare movement
Neo-productivist’ agriculture
Farmer Participation in Agri-Environmental Schemes
This paper argues that the possible shift towards conservation-oriented attitudes of farmers through agri-environmental scheme participation should be seen as a key indicator for assessing the 'effectiveness' of agri-environmental policy. Through the analysis of two agri-environmental schemes in the UK, the ESA and Countryside Stewardship schemes, the study suggests that schemes attract different types of farmers and have different results with r…
Theorising Transitional Pathways in Response to Climate Change
The carbon economy has emerged over the last decade as an important but controversial development in the harnessing of economics to address the challenge of climate change. In this paper we utilise the concepts of policy change and transition theorisations to analyse carbon commodification within the broader range of possible responses to the climate problem. We argue that the neoliberal, technocentric, and ecological modernisation values underpi…
Community resilience and land degradation in forest and shrubland socio-ecological systems
EU member state responses to Agri-Environment Regulation 2078/92/EEC – towards a conceptual framework
Community resilience, policy corridors and the policy challenge
The Yellow Pages as a sampling frame for farm surveys
Community resilience in rural China
British Environmental Policy and Europe
Multifunctional intervention and market rationality in agricultural governance
Assessing the environmental impact of the environmentally sensitive areas scheme
This study analyses the environmental impact of the Cambrian Mountains ESA scheme (1A northern part) through a 100% census survey of farmers in the area. It is argued that farmers’ knowledge of ecological change on their farms provides useful information about ecological change induced by agri‐environmental schemes, and that this important source of information has been neglected by researchers in the past. The results suggest that while the ESA …
The resilience and vulnerability of remote mountain communities
UK implementation of agri‐environment regulation 2078/92/EEC
This paper discusses the UK response to Agri‐environment Regulation 2078/92/EEC, which recognized the need for increased emphasis to be placed on the landscape and environmental value of agriculture. It is argued that the UK has been a reluctant participant in the Regulation and that it has largely failed to put into place an innovative and far‐sighted policy package when opportunities were offered in the early 1990s. Four specific reasons are di…
Lock-ins and community resilience
Tourism, especially in the European Alps, contributes to rural livelihood and depends on farming to preserve the landscape. The symbiosis is also expected to strengthen community resilience, conceptualized as a combination of economic, social, cultural, political and natural domains. The interplay of these domains may result in path dependencies driven by lock-in effects, beyond which controlled development is basically not possible. In our study…
Local rural product as a ‘relic’ spatial strategy in globalised rural spaces
Post-Produktivismus in der europäischen Landwirtschaft
Ziel dieses Artikels ist aufzuzeigen, ob theoretische Konzepte zum möglichen Übergang von einem «produktivistischen» zu einem «post-produktivistischen» Agrarregime, die im britischen Kontext entworfen wurden, auch auf andere westeuropäische Länder übertragen werden können. Teil 2 des Artikels gibt einen groben Überblick über den derzeitigen Stand der theoretischen Diskussion zum Thema Post-Produktivismus, während Teil 3 dieses Artikels aufzeigt, …
German agri-environmental schemes — I. A preliminary review
Wood Chipping of Indigenous Forest on Private Land in New Zealand 1969–1993
In recent decades the international wood chip industry has been the major cause of indigenous forest destruction in New Zealand. This paper analyses how changing state forest policies have affected wood chipping of indigenous forest. Emphasis is placed on wood chipping on private land through a case study of the reactions and changing attitudes of farmers. It is argued that farmers and Maori landowners often have no other alternative but to allow…
German agri-environmental schemes — II. The Meka programme in baden-württemberg
Agri-Environmental Schemes in Switzerland
This study analyses agri-environmental schemes in Switzerland. It compares Swiss schemes with agri-environmental schemes in the EU (specifically the ESA and MEKA schemes) and hypothesizes what effects possible Swiss EU membership might have for the structure of its agri-environmental schemes and its landholders. Davos has been selected as a case-study to illustrate problems and opportunities of agri-environmental schemes in upland areas, and to p…
Farmer environmental attitudes and ESA participation
Trans‐Pacific Wood Chip Exports
This study analyses the background to the rise of Chile as a major wood chip exporter, and assesses the environmental impact and relative economic importance of the Chilean wood chip industry. Chile is acting as a ‘surrogate’ for lost Australian hardwood chip exports to Japan. Compared to other countries, the wood chip industry in Chile has had a disproportionate impact on its remnant native forests and is essentially predicated on unsustainable …
Factors Influencing Farmer Participation in the Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme
Assessing the environmental impact of the environmentally sensitive areas scheme
This study analyses the environmental impact of the Cambrian Mountains ESA scheme (1A northern part) through a 100% census survey of farmers in the area. It is argued that farmers’ knowledge of ecological change on their farms provides useful information about ecological change induced by agri‐environmental schemes, and that this important source of information has been neglected by researchers in the past. The results suggest that while the ESA …
Common cause or common concern? The role of common lands in the post‐productivist countryside
The aim of this paper is to contribute towards a better understanding of the contemporary position of commons as a land resource, and to evaluate whether commons have a distinct role to play in today's ‘post‐productivist’ countryside. Following the government's recent recognition of the multi‐functional role of commons, the paper sets out to investigate whether this can be achieved through existing agri‐environmental schemes. A case study of comm…
UK implementation of agri‐environment regulation 2078/92/EEC
This paper discusses the UK response to Agri‐environment Regulation 2078/92/EEC, which recognized the need for increased emphasis to be placed on the landscape and environmental value of agriculture. It is argued that the UK has been a reluctant participant in the Regulation and that it has largely failed to put into place an innovative and far‐sighted policy package when opportunities were offered in the early 1990s. Four specific reasons are di…
The Yellow Pages as a sampling frame for farm surveys
EU member state responses to Agri-Environment Regulation 2078/92/EEC – towards a conceptual framework
British Environmental Policy and Europe
Financial Imperative or Conservation Concern? EU Farmers' Motivations for Participation in Voluntary Agri-Environmental Schemes
Based on a large transnational research project that involved questionnaires with 1000 farm households in nine EU countries and Switzerland, this paper investigates factors influencing farmers' participation in agri-environmental schemes (AESs). Analysis of motivations for AES participation highlights that complex patterns of AESs are in operation. Pronounced geographical differences in farmers' reactions towards schemes can be identified, with r…
From productivism to post‐productivism … and back again? Exploring the (un)changed natural and mental landscapes of European agriculture
This paper has evolved out of a growing dissatisfaction with the relatively uncritical acceptance in contemporary debates that agriculture in advanced societies has moved from ‘productivism’ to ‘post‐productivism’. A brief review of current conceptualizations of productivist and post‐productivist agricultural regimes reveals inconsistencies in current understandings these dualistic terms. The problem has partly been that the conceptual literature…
German Agriculture in Transition
Farmer Participation in Agri-Environmental Schemes
This paper argues that the possible shift towards conservation-oriented attitudes of farmers through agri-environmental scheme participation should be seen as a key indicator for assessing the 'effectiveness' of agri-environmental policy. Through the analysis of two agri-environmental schemes in the UK, the ESA and Countryside Stewardship schemes, the study suggests that schemes attract different types of farmers and have different results with r…
Post-Produktivismus in der europäischen Landwirtschaft
Ziel dieses Artikels ist aufzuzeigen, ob theoretische Konzepte zum möglichen Übergang von einem «produktivistischen» zu einem «post-produktivistischen» Agrarregime, die im britischen Kontext entworfen wurden, auch auf andere westeuropäische Länder übertragen werden können. Teil 2 des Artikels gibt einen groben Überblick über den derzeitigen Stand der theoretischen Diskussion zum Thema Post-Produktivismus, während Teil 3 dieses Artikels aufzeigt, …
Environmental co-operation and institutional change
The Australian Landcare movement
Injecting social psychology theory into conceptualisations of agricultural agency
Indigenous Forest Management in 21st-Century New Zealand
The critique of indigenous forest management in New Zealand in this paper contextualises the discussion in light of recent Eurocentric debates on the transition towards 'postproductivist' and 'multifunctional' agricultural and forestry regimes. The research findings confirm recent criticisms of Australian writers with regard to the direct transferability of the notion of a transition towards postproductivism developed by European researchers and …
Confronting environments
From ‘weak’ to ‘strong’ multifunctionality
The spatiality of multifunctional agriculture
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