The Sounds of Silence

Perspectives on Documenting Acoustic Landscapes at the Intersection of Remoteness, Conservation and Tourism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20249192
AutoresJonathan Carruthers‐jone (0000-0002-0312-2455, University of Helsinki, autor correspondente), George Holmes (0000-0002-5393-5753, University of Leeds), Roger Norum (0000-0002-4221-5777, University of Oulu)
Ano2025
Volume14
Fascículo3
Páginas41
Data de publicação2025-02-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/h14030041
OpenAlexW4407844279
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas38

The humanities are often criticised for lacking a way through from the complexity they reveal to the challenges they might hope to address. In the face of the accelerating biodiversity crisis, we present two projects that aim to respond to the limitations and lack of interdisciplinary conversations in conservation and in humanities research. At field sites in Finnish Lapland and the French Pyrenees, we document how conservation humanities research can be used to develop a more pragmatic and integrated transdisciplinary approach to conservation in remote and fragile landscapes. Firstly, we show how sound and soundscapes are important subjects of study in both conservation biology and the humanities. We also highlight their importance to conservation planners and policy makers seeking to preserve biodiversity and landscape characteristics, as well as our social values thereof, which, together, are critical to their survival. Secondly, we demonstrate how integrated conservation humanities methods can lead to rich local-level insights on key conservation themes that can then be scaled via existing large-scale acoustic monitoring and spatial datasets to support decision making across much larger areas. Finally, we highlight how the participatory mapping approach at the core of our integrated methodology shows potential to generate change in the real world and meet the classic operationalisation challenge that academia faces

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Environmental planning · Geography · Silence · Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Marine animal studies overview