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    Rewilding as rural land management: opportunities and constraints
    (Routledge, 2019-02-01)
    This chapter explores the potential benefits and constraints of ‘rewilding’ as a response to the challenges posed by land abandonment in rural environments. It first explores the evolution of the concept and identifies a variety of interpretations of what rewilding means. The potential benefits and problems associated with rewilding are outlined. This supplies a platform from which to examine the opportunities for and barriers against rewilding as a policy approach for land use management in marginalised rural areas. The chapter then employs a case study of a rewilding initiative on an extensive area of unproductive forestry land in Ireland to illustrate some of the issues that may arise when attempting to rewild rural landscapes and to highlight outstanding deficits in rewilding research. Despite these matters, the chapter concludes that rewilding should be recognised by policy-makers as one of the possible land management options available in addressing the myriad of challenges faced by marginal rural areas.
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    Grasping Green Infrastructure: an introduction to the theory and practice of a diverse environmental planning approach
    (Routledge, 2019-08)
    Green infrastructure (GI) can be a difficult to fathom concept. It is employed in different ways in different contexts: in some jurisdictions it is most commonly conceived as a tool for adjudicating on specific development proposals, while in others it is primarily employed in the formulation of policy that sets the broad framework for land use. Understanding such varying interpretations, or ‘regional accents’, is important as they influence the identification of problems, the forms of assessment employed and the types of solutions advanced. Much of this variation is resultant from how the roots of the concept straddle a number of disciplines, with the relative weight given each of these roots reflected in the focus of GI initiatives in different contexts. Hence, in presenting an introduction and outline of the GI approach, this chapter first traces the diverse regional antecedents of the GI concept to understand how it shapes environmental planning activities in different contexts. This provides a platform upon which to review a selection of representative case studies that illustrate the most prominent regional accents characterising the approach, and how these are related to the institutionalisation of the GI concept at different scales. The chapter closes by discussing commonalities between these differently accented approaches and outlines the shared achievement of the GI concept.
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