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Valuing Landscapes

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Land management invorelves weighing the ecological, aesthetic, scientific, historical, economic, and other kinds of value the landscape holds for a community. In other words, it involves interpreting the meaning of the landscape. This chapter explores the ethical dimension of interpreting the landscape. It then focuses on two important sources of interpretive conflict: the meaning and value of wilderness (and the related concept of biodiversity) and the role of ecological knowledge in judging the aesthetic value of a landscape. It concludes by considering how interpreting the landscape may relate to social justice.

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  1. Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA

    Kimberly K. Smith

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Smith, K.K. (2018). Valuing Landscapes. In: Exploring Environmental Ethics. AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77395-7_7

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