Title Common Sense in Environmental Management : Thinking Through English Land and Water

Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (185 pages) Series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies Routledge explorations in environmental studies. Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Figures; Tables; Preface: common sense -- a briefing for policymakers; The problem -- siloing obstructs effective environmental land management; What is common sense?; How does common sense shape English society and land management?; Acknowledgements; Introduction: common-sense questions; Why: why common sense?; Where: the Broads as a fieldsite; What: a common-sense argument; Notes; References; 1 Do academics have common sense? Koinē aísthēsis and other opinions: key philosophical debates on common sense"Sons of the Soil": etymologies of common sense; Common sense as a social scientific object; Common sense as a political object; Conclusion: the need for ethnographies of common sense; Notes; References; 2 What is common sense?; Common sense as a vernacular object; Common sense in vernacular use; Notes; References; 3 Where is common sense to be found?; Learned voices: common land in environmental histories of Broadland; Working voices: "bad farming", tidiness, and the balance of contemporary rural life in Norfolk Concerned voices: current trends in Britain's rural economyAnalysis: work, common land, and the process of enclosure in Broadland; Conclusion: the institution of common ground; Notes; References; 4 Can you learn common sense?; Overview: Strumpshaw Fen as a place of desire; Underview: thicket description of working your way through the landscape; Counterview: quiet enjoyment and visitor experience; Interview: farmers, children, and the acquisition of common sense; Teleview: "Broadland Consciousness" versus "Barrier Consciousness; Conclusion: common sense and English sensoria; Notes; References 5 Why is common sense so scarce?Hickling Broad: a lack of common ground; Bird farmers: Catfield Fen and landscape-scale conservation; Fragmenting corporeal attitudes: habitus and "the silo effect"; Trials and errors: the trouble with common sense; Conclusion: Chedgrave Common and the apogee of commoning; Notes; References; Conclusions: what do we need to know about common sense?; Gillian Tett, Robert Kett, and the division of labour; Note; References; Index Summary Common Sense in Environmental Management examines common sense not in theory, but in practice. Jonathan Woolley argues that common sense as a concept is rooted in English experiences of landscape and land management and examines it ethnographically - unveiling common sense as key to understanding how British nature and public life are transforming in the present day. Common sense encourages English people to tacitly assume that the management of land and other resources should organically converge on a consensus that yields self-evident, practical results. Furthermore, the English then tend to assume that their own position reflects that consensus. Other stakeholders are not seen as having legitimate but distinct expertise and interests - but are rather viewed as being stupid and/or immoral, for ignoring self-evident, pragmatic truths. Compromise is therefore less likely, and land management practices become entrenched and resistant to innovation and improvement. Through a detailed ethnographic study of the Norfolk Broads, this book explores how environmental policy and land management in rural areas could be more effective if a truly common sense was restored in the way we manage our shared environment. Using academic and lay deployments of common sense as a route into the political economy of rural environments, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of socio-cultural anthropology, sociology, human geography, cultural studies, social history, and the environmental humanities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Jonathan Woolley is an Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. He was awarded his PhD in March 2018, following over a year of ethnographic fieldwork in the Broads National Park, upon which this book is based. Jonathan's research there was part of an AHRC-funded research project at the University, Pathways to Understanding the Changing Climate, which explored the styles of learning about the environment that exist in different cultures around the world. Jonathan has also written on East Anglian folklore, nature spirituality, and public engagement with environmental and cultural heritage Print version record Subject Environmental management. Common sense. Land use, Rural -- England -- Broads, The Environmental management -- England -- Broads, The environmental control. NATURE -- Ecology. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy. Land use, Rural Ecology Common sense Environmental management SUBJECT Broads, The (England) -- Environmental conditions Subject England -- The Broads Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429683190 0429683197 9780429400605 0429400608 9780429683183 0429683189 9780429683176 0429683170

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