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Project ID:1 | Module:1 | Status: finished
Landscape's social field: representation and legitimacy in the use of the mountain habitat

                           
Contact: Dr. Yvan Droz
4, Rue Saint-Nicolas
2000 Neuchâtel
e-mail: yvan.droz@unine.ch
Phone/Fax: 032 914 19 76 / Fax: 032 914 19 81
Web: http://www.unine.ch/

Study areas: Pays-d'Enhaut (VD), Jura Suisse (JU, BE, NE, VD)

Project partners: Association pour le développement du Pays-d’Enhaut, Château-d’Oex Econseil, La Chaux-de-Fonds

Summary:

For the ethnologist, landscape is a social construct; it consists of a social representation, without an objective reality. “Landscape” is distinct from other related concepts (i.e. space/area, nature etc.) because it brings together...  ->read more


Description:
In which ways do perceptions and representations of landscape legitimise habitat management and uses?

Conflicts and misunderstandings in decision-making related to habitat management often have their roots in differing representations ...  ->read more

Other publications
and activities:
Poster:Le champ du paysage: Représentations paysagères et processus de légitimation des usages sociaux du paysage [Yvan Droz, Valérie Miéville-Ott, Anne Joggi, Rachel Spichiger, (French)]
Abstract:Landscape's social field: representation and legitimacy in the use of the mountain Habitat [Yvan Droz, Valérie Miéville-Ott, Anne Joggi, Rachel Spichiger, (English)]




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