Biodiversity conservation and brownfield sites :

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Biodiversity conservation and brownfield sites : "
Evans, James Philip Martin

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1096898
Doc. No	:	TLets489816
Main Entry	:	Evans, James Philip Martin
Title & Author	:	Biodiversity conservation and brownfield sites :\ Evans, James Philip Martin
College	:	University of Birmingham
Date	:	2003
student score	:	2003
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	This thesis develops a multi-scalar political ecology of biodiversity conservation on brownfield sites in Birmingham, U.K. While urban brownfield biodiversity is increasingly recognised as a valuable resource, political pressure to develop such spaces is also growing. Forty-five interviews were conducted with practitioners and policy makers, supported by genealogical and discursive analyses of a range of texts, to interrogate this tension. Common discourses structuring ecological, conservation and planning activities are traced across national and international levels, to contextualise the formulation and implementation of biodiversity action plans at the local level. Because urban landscapes are characterised by disequilibrium, planning policies and ecological models under-represent the worth of these spaces. The mediation of these discourses through local networks of actors engaged in the biodiversity action plan process is explored socially and geographically. A scalar political ecology of urban planning is developed through the consideration of wildlife corridors, and a case study of a specific brownfield site. The thesis offers an integrative analysis of socioecological transformation, and urban ecological governance. It is argued that while the BAP process has the potential to reconfigure urban geographies, it is currently sterile because such forms of sustainable governance contradict the dominant ‘scalar fix’ of capitalism.
Subject	:	G Geography (General)
	:	GE Environmental Sciences
Added Entry	:	University of Birmingham