Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking

Abstract

Introduction This chapter starts from the contradiction that, while the empirical evidence demonstrates increasingly how inextricably humans have become embedded in earth surface and atmospheric processes, we maintain separationist ways of talking about things. Our dominant metaphors – cultural landscapes, social–ecological systems, human impacts, human interaction with the environment, anthropogenic climate change – all contain within them a dualistic construction of humans and the non-human world (often otherwise known as nature). The chapter makes broad comparisons between cultural landscapes approaches and social–ecological systems frameworks, as used in resilience thinking, in how they ..