Combining facilitated dialogue and spatial data analysis to compile landscape history

D H Duncan; G Kyle; Digby Race

doi:10.1017/S0376892910000767

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Combining facilitated dialogue and spatial data analysis to compile landscape history

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Combining facilitated dialogue and spatial data analysis to compile landscape history

D H Duncan, G Kyle and Digby Race

Environmental Conservation, Vol.37(4), pp.432-441

2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892910000767

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facilitated dialogue

interdisciplinarity

landscape history

land use change

local environmental knowledge

native vegetation

participatory mapping

participatory research

Successful reconstruction or restoration of formerly cleared landscapes depends on land use history and its legacies. Programmes developed without consideration of these legacies may fail to be effective and lack credibility. However, compiling landscape histories is not simple; our participatory workshops with long-term local residents combined spatial data on landscape change with facilitated conversations to compile a history of landscape change. Timing and extent of key environmental and socioeconomic drivers of woody vegetation cover change since European settlement were established. Some drivers of clearing were relatively well-known, such as drought, or clearing for surface mining and pastoralism. However, others, including important interactions like prolonged drought intersecting with declining wool prices, were less known. These workshops verified provisional data, tested focus and methods, and identified critical time periods for further investigation. The workshops were a powerful transdisciplinary research tool that enhanced the understanding of researchers and participants beyond expectations. Other researchers should consider the general approach when assembling landscape history as a basis for documenting the degree and causes of change. © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2010.

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Title: Combining facilitated dialogue and spatial data analysis to compile landscape history
Authors: D H Duncan (Author) - Landscape Logic Commonwealth Environmental Research Facility
G Kyle (Author) - Landscape Logic Commonwealth Environmental Research Facility
Digby Race (Author) - Charles Sturt University
Publication details: Environmental Conservation, Vol.37(4), pp.432-441
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date published: 2010
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892910000767
ISSN: 0376-8929
Organisation Unit: Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450925002621
Output Type: Journal article

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