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Associating social justice with landscape is not new, yet the
twenty-first century's heightened threats to landscape and their
impact on both human and, more generally, nature's habitats
necessitate novel intellectual tools to address such challenges.
This book offers that innovative critical thinking framework. The
establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
in 1948, in the aftermath of Second World War atrocities, was an
aspiration to guarantee both concrete necessities for survival and
the spiritual/emotional/psychological needs that are quintessential
to the human experience. While landscape is place, nature and
culture specific, the idea transcends nation-state boundaries and
as such can be understood as a universal theoretical concept
similar to the way in which human rights are perceived. The first
step towards the intellectual interface between landscape and human
rights is a dynamic and layered understanding of landscape.
Accordingly, the 'Right to Landscape' is conceived as the place
where the expansive definition of landscape, with its tangible and
intangible dimensions, overlaps with the rights that support both
life and human dignity, as defined by the UDHR. By expanding on the
concept of human rights in the context of landscape this book
presents a new model for addressing human rights - alternative
scenarios for constructing conflict-reduced approaches to
landscape-use and human welfare are generated. This book introduces
a rich new discourse on landscape and human rights, serving as a
platform to inspire a diversity of ideas and conceptual
interpretations. The case studies discussed are wide in their
geographical distribution and interdisciplinary in the theoretical
situation of their authors, breaking fresh ground for an emerging
critical dialogue on the convergence of landscape and human rights.
This stimulating book explores the intersection of landscape,
democracy and spatial justice on an international scale to offer an
overarching definition and examination of the emerging field of
landscape democracy. The concept of landscape in academia, policy
and practice is being met with growing interest and a wider
understanding that it is a complex living environment, moulded by
tangible and intangible mediums, processes and systems. This book
examines how physical, mental, emotional, economic, social and
cultural wellbeing depend in large part on inclusive planning and
management of landscapes. Through a broad set of theoretical and
conceptual frameworks and international case studies, the authors
of Defining Landscape Democracy address critical questions, such
as: Why is democracy relevant to landscape? How do we democratise
landscape? How might we achieve landscape and spatial justice? This
work will provide new knowledge and insights for researchers in the
fields of landscape architecture, human geography, planning, public
policy, sociology, landscape management, and designers and planners
actively engaged in shaping democratic public spaces and
communities. Contributors include: A. Aagaard Christensen, R.
Alomar, P. Angelstam, F. Arler, M. Bose, A. Butler, B. Castiglioni,
M. Clemetsen, S. Egoz, M. Elbakidze, V. Ferrario, C. Geisler, P.
Horrigan, K. Jogensen, M. Jones, N.T. King, U. Krippner, L.C.
Knudtzon, J. Langhorst, L. Licka, E. Lopez-Bahut, J. Makhzoumi, D.
Mitchell, K.R. Olwig, E. Oureilidou, L. Paz Agras, J. Primdahl, D.
Ruggeri, E. Schwab, B. Sirowy, L. Soderkvist Kristensen, K.B.
Stokke, T. Waterman, B. Yigit Turan
Associating social justice with landscape is not new, yet the
twenty-first century's heightened threats to landscape and their
impact on both human and, more generally, nature's habitats
necessitate novel intellectual tools to address such challenges.
This book offers that innovative critical thinking framework. The
establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
in 1948, in the aftermath of Second World War atrocities, was an
aspiration to guarantee both concrete necessities for survival and
the spiritual/emotional/psychological needs that are quintessential
to the human experience. While landscape is place, nature and
culture specific, the idea transcends nation-state boundaries and
as such can be understood as a universal theoretical concept
similar to the way in which human rights are perceived. The first
step towards the intellectual interface between landscape and human
rights is a dynamic and layered understanding of landscape.
Accordingly, the 'Right to Landscape' is conceived as the place
where the expansive definition of landscape, with its tangible and
intangible dimensions, overlaps with the rights that support both
life and human dignity, as defined by the UDHR. By expanding on the
concept of human rights in the context of landscape this book
presents a new model for addressing human rights - alternative
scenarios for constructing conflict-reduced approaches to
landscape-use and human welfare are generated. This book introduces
a rich new discourse on landscape and human rights, serving as a
platform to inspire a diversity of ideas and conceptual
interpretations. The case studies discussed are wide in their
geographical distribution and interdisciplinary in the theoretical
situation of their authors, breaking fresh ground for an emerging
critical dialogue on the convergence of landscape and human rights.
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