Landscapes
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLandscapes tells stories about how re-imagining land is a precursor to delivering the types of social and ecological change required to address the most pressing problems of our time.
Landscapes is an interview style podcast about the role of land in society and the environment, presented by Adam Calo.
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Building new land relations from within the core - (Dido van Oosten)
March 21, 2024 15:13 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBThe Netherlands is a world leader in the industrial model of agriculture with speculation-driven land prices to match. Dido van Oosten of Stitchting Kapitaloceen presents a strategy for unravelling entrenched land relations from within a place where property is sacred. Episode Links Nicholas Blomley: Performing Property: Making the World Mietshäuser Syndikat De Warmonderhof training program Land van Ons Vrijcoop collective housing project Landscapes is produced by Adam Calo. A ...
The People's Land Policy - (Bonnie VandeSteeg)
December 27, 2023 09:59 - 55 minutes - 75.8 MBRecognizing how systems of private property control new visions of land use is one thing. Working on a political process of land reform is another. Bonnie VandeSteeg of the People's Land Policy discusses the recent program outlined in: Towards a Manifesto for Land Justice. Episode Links Land for What? Land for Whom? by Dr Bonnie VandeSteeg Towards a Manifesto for Land Justice A People's food policy from the Land Worker's Alliance Scottish Land Commission Liverpool Land Commission...
Holistic grazing, holistic thinking - (Nikki Yoxall)
December 11, 2023 08:54 - 1 hour - 100 MBA recent wave of sustainability claims confidently dictate how, for what, and where we ought to use land for climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Nikki Yoxall, a self proclaimed regenerative landscape manager walks through her thinking on land use decision making and responds to these critiques. Episode Links Food without agriculture, Nature Sustainability Guthman on the problems with localism DeLind on the problems with localism Phil Loring – deeper meaning of regen a...
The Visible Hand - Roz Corbett
September 08, 2023 04:56 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBNormally, land owners get a powerful say in the direction of land use. But what if we could design policies such that public values of land use directed who gets to own the land? PhD student and farmer Roz Corbett travels to France to find out. Episode Links Public consultation on the Proposed Land Ownership and Public Interest (Scotland) Bill (closes 12th September 2023) Scotland’s Rural Land Market insights (Scottish Land Commission) Tim Lang, Feeding Britain Terre des Liens Ho...
The Where of Law - Nicholas Blomley
August 03, 2023 07:37 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MBReforming property for sustainability requires both innovation in the law as well as in how we relate to land. Legal geography is a conceptual project that describes how law and space interact. Frankie McCarthy (lawyer) and Nicholas Blomley (geographer) discuss property through the legal geography lens. Episode Links Frankie McCarthy Nicholas Blomley Remember property? Progress in Human Geography A Statement of Progressive Property State v Shack case Performing Property: Making The W...
Farm Subsidies and the Green Transition - Kai Heron
July 24, 2023 12:39 - 1 hour - 101 MBBrexit produced a once a generation chance to create a wholesale reform of agricultural subsidies. Kai Heron works through what the England's new farm subsidy plan reveals about the politics of food system transformation. Episode Links Kai Heron on Twitter You can’t eat profits: A democratic vision for England’s tormented farmlands. The New Statesman. By Kai Heron, Alex Heffron and Rob Booth Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition. Spectre Journal. Kai Heron and Jodi Dean ...
Nature's Vote
April 28, 2023 16:31 - 1 hour - 94.7 MBEpisode Description Rescinding the practice of human-exceptionalism may be required to treat animals and other non-human species with more grace. But it might also be required to re-orient how we understand how the non-human world operates and thus the decisions we make that may disrupt the order of the multi-species communities we are all part of. Dr. Emma Gardner proposes an "ecological permission structure", or a parallel planning process that takes into account the needs and desires of...
Transcript: Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)
September 26, 2022 19:19Interview Transcript: Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)* Listen here *The transcript has been edited lightly for comprehension and read-ability INTRO [00:00:38] Adam Calo: In an earlier episode of the podcast, I talked with Dr. Janet Fisher, where we discussed the rise to dominance of the ecosystem services framework and its limitations for resolving problems in landscape decision-making. Around that same time, a group of researchers made up of ecosystem modelers artis...
Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)
September 23, 2022 11:20 - 50 minutes - 68.8 MBA question of how to advance upon the ecosystem services concept leads to lessons learned about how to work collaboratively across disciplines. Episode Links Lesson’s Learned Writing (a blog by Beth Cole Is interdisciplinarity a mashup? Beth Cole social media The Landscapes Decisions Program Music: Kilkerrin by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Contested GM Worldviews - (Andrew Flachs)
May 04, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBAn article in Scientific American bringing a science and technology studies lens to Genetically Modified Organisms, provoked louder than normal responses from the pro biotech crowd. What can we learn from the exchange? Dr Andrew Flachs, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University, studied the role of seeds on farmer livelihoods in rural India as part of his book, Cultivating Knowledge. We discuss the arguments of the article and its malcontents to try and reach a broader underst...
Transcript: Contested GM Worldviews - (Andrew Flachs)
May 02, 2022 11:49Transcript for the Landscapes Podcast Episode 6. Published May 2022 *The transcript has been edited lightly for clarity and comprehension Intro [00:00:00] Adam Calo: In December of 2021, an article in Scientific American titled How Biotech Crops Can Crash—and Still Never Fail, laid out an argument critiquing the promotion of genetically modified seeds and associated crop biotechnologies. I would characterize the general contours of the GM debate as fairly siloed. Biotechnological sol...
Transcript: An Agroecological Vision for the United Kingdom with Jyoti Fernandes
May 11, 2021 06:45Landscapes Podcast Episode 5. May 2021 *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension INTRO Adam Calo: [00:00:17] The largest contemporary social movement in the world is arguably La Via Campesina, a global organization of peasant and smallholders that represents over 200 million constituent farmers across 81 countries and through 182 local chapters and national organizations. For academics and decision makers interested in designing landscape policy that meets...
An Agroecological Vision for the United Kingdom - (Jyoti Fernandes)
May 10, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBJyoti Fernandes, farmer of Five Penny Farms and Policy Coordinator with the UK based Landworkers’ Alliance, discusses what agroecology means to her and the efforts to shape food policy in the United Kingdom. We also discuss the risk of agroecology being co-opted and the current boycott of the UN Food Systems Summit. Episode Links Five Penny Farms, Dorset Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Scientists Boycott the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit Jyoti testifying at the EU Parliamen...
Transcript: The Role of the Arts on Landscape Science with Ewan Allinson
April 14, 2021 21:00Transcript: The role of arts on landscape science - (Ewan Allinson) – Landscapes Podcast April 2021 *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension INTRO If you look at any major environmental problem today, I believe part of its origin story can be attributed to the consequence of some expert-led decision-making process. Undoubtedly, these experts assessed the available evidence and made recommendations to policy makers, claiming that adherence to their remedies ...
The Role of the Arts on Landscape Science - (Ewan Allinson)
April 14, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBToo much expert-led decision making has long been shown to deliver perverse outcomes for the environment and society. What if a more earnest collaboration with artists and the arts is the secret ingredient to unlocking a more egalitarian science and society relationship? Independent sculptor, dry stone waller, and landscape partnership innovator Ewan Allinson, discusses the role of the arts in landscape decision making. Episode Links The Hefted to Hill project, as part of the Northern Hea...
The Dasgupta Review - (Janet Fisher)
March 23, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBThe past decades have seen the rise to dominance of the ecosystem services framework, a worldview and scientific practice that sees the processes of the biosphere through a lens of how they prop up human activities. Within academic circles, the concept is hotly contested. Some see valuing nature with the language of neoclassical economics as the only way to motivate governments and corporate actors into doing responsible environmental action. Others see concepts of ecosystem services and nat...
Ep3 Transcript: The Dasgupta Review with Janet Fisher
March 23, 2021 00:30Landscapes - The Dasgupta Review - [Janet Fisher] Transcript [ep.3] *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension Introduction Adam Calo: [00:00:27] Researchers in the environmental sciences spend a lot of effort evaluating the diversity of frameworks that guide land use management. Consider on the one hand making some change to the land based on a deep multi-generational local ecological knowledge, where wisdom passed on through narratives and myths i...
Transcript: The Dasgupta Review with Janet Fisher
March 23, 2021 00:30Landscapes - The Dasgupta Review - [Janet Fisher] Transcript [ep.3] *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension Introduction Adam Calo: [00:00:27] Researchers in the environmental sciences spend a lot of effort evaluating the diversity of frameworks that guide land use management. Consider on the one hand making some change to the land based on a deep multi-generational local ecological knowledge, where wisdom passed on through narratives and myths i...
Transcript: A Human Rights Approach to Land with Kirsteen Shields
February 18, 2021 08:34Transcript - EP2 - A Human Rights Approach to Land with Kirsteen Shields *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension Adam Calo: My research is all about the problem of access to farmland. The whole premise is that without secure long-term access to quality farmland, the types of sustainable agriculture that we can propose, run experiments on, or fantasize about are really just a pipe dream. In the United States, I'm most familiar with the types strategies to pr...
Transcript of Episode 2: A Human Rights Approach to Land with Kirsteen Shields
February 18, 2021 08:34Transcript - EP2 - A Human Rights Approach to Land with Kirsteen Shields *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension Adam Calo: My research is all about the problem of access to farmland. The whole premise is that without secure long-term access to quality farmland, the types of sustainable agriculture that we can propose, run experiments on, or fantasize about are really just a pipe dream. In the United States, I'm most familiar with the types strategies to pr...
A Human Rights Approach to Land - (Kirsteen Shields)
February 17, 2021 22:00 - 22 minutes - 31.6 MBThe second episode of Landscapes features an interview with Dr Kirsteen Shields, Lecturer in International Law and Food Security at the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security at the University of Edinburgh. Kirsteen was the first person to introduce me to the Land Reform debate happening in Scotland and has played a role in informing high level thinking on the Acts themselves. Particularly, we talk about the fundamental balancing act between rights to property and rights to pretty...
Transcript: The Parable of Portobello with Malcolm Combe
February 10, 2021 12:53Transcript of Episode 1 -The Parable of Portobello with Malcolm Combe *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension Adam Calo: Land use contributes to 23% of all human generated greenhouse gas emissions, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The panel goes on to urge policy makers to prioritize a new land use paradigm that both meets human needs AND mitigates and adapts to climate change. I like to think about two contrasting ways to achieve this...
Episode 1 -Transcript The Parable of Portobello
February 10, 2021 12:53Transcript of Episode 1 -The Parable of Portobello with Malcolm Combe *The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and comprehension Adam Calo: Land use contributes to 23% of all human generated greenhouse gas emissions, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The panel goes on to urge policy makers to prioritize a new land use paradigm that both meets human needs AND mitigates and adapts to climate change. I like to think about two contrasting ways to achieve this...
The Parable of Portobello - (Malcolm Combe)
February 09, 2021 14:49 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBNotions of Land Reform, especially when looking historically, bring forth images of mass upheaval and unrest associated with nationalization and redistribution of resources—as it should. Yet, as the favored option to shift land use, where property entitlements are left unchallenged, continues to deliver watered down results, it seems to me it’s worth willing to experiment with reshaping the concept of property, while still respecting deeply entrenched social and legal norms of property. Th...
Landscapes Podcast Trailer
February 09, 2021 12:38 - 2 minutes - 3.39 MBAs part of the work I’m doing with the Landscape Decisions Programme (https://landscapedecisions.org/), I’m producing a series of interview style podcasts about land. The motivation of the Landscapes podcast is a trend I have been observing where scientific explorations of root causes of social and environmental problems end up focusing on land, landscapes, and land governance. This occurs in a variety of domains … those concerned with affordable housing end up looking at land taxation pol...