Project description
Innovative solutions for landscape reform in the Anthropocene
How can we learn to live on earth in new ways? This is the challenge of the Anthropocene. The ERC-funded LAND project will develop a novel framework to examine land-life dynamics, linking human-nonhuman relationships, property-making, profit regimes, and land-climate systems. Addressing challenges associated with climate change, biodiversity loss, food security, and infrastructure development, the project will focus on case studies in the Colombian Amazon, southern African savannas, Spanish Mediterranean plains, and coastal Southeast Asia. Through collaboration with policymakers and local communities, the project aims to foster innovative solutions for ‘landscape reform’.
Objective
How can we learn to live on earth in new ways? This is the challenge of the Anthropocene. We propose a novel 4Ps framework to investigate land–life dynamics, which, for the first time, will connect perspectives on human–nonhuman relations (Partners), property-making (Property), land regimes (Profit) and land–climate systems (Planet). We will draw on critical perspectives from both environmental humanities and agrarian studies, bringing together diverse traditions from human–nonhuman anthropology, geography, political ecology and economy, ecological economics and complex systems thinking in a unique interdisciplinary synthesis. Connecting land and life, this project will address four Anthropocene challenges – climate, biodiversity, food and infrastructure/investment – through four exemplar landscape cases in the Colombian Amazon, southern African savannas, Spanish Mediterranean plains and coastal Southeast Asia. The core team (Borras, Corbera, Scoones and Tsing) bring a range of expertise and experience that, together with eight postdoctoral and seven PhD researchers, can form the foundation for radically rethinking how we conceptualise land–life relations in the Anthropocene. We have designed a collaborative project organisation and process for working together that will promote synergistic conceptual and methodological breakthroughs, while building the capacity of researchers to engage with Anthropocene challenges through a novel framework. Engaging with policymakers, social movements and local communities, our public action work will in turn lead to practical approaches to ‘landscape reform’, where new ways of living in the Anthropocene are imagined and elaborated.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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Call for proposal
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3062 PA Rotterdam
Netherlands
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