TY - JOUR
T1 - Place in legal geography
T2 - Agency and application in agriculture research
AU - Bartel, Robyn
AU - Graham, Nicole
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DP210101483). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council. Open access publishing facilitated by University of New England, as part of the Wiley ‐ University of New England agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.
Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DP210101483). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council. Open access publishing facilitated by University of New England, as part of the Wiley - University of New England agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians. The lead author is a member of the Editorial Board of Geographical Research. The views are the authors' own.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Geographical Research published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Institute of Australian Geographers.
PY - 2023/5
Y1 - 2023/5
N2 - Systemic failure of our land management, legal, and regulatory institutions is revealed by the serious and adverse social and environmental impacts of land use practices in private agriculture, evident in severe land and water degradation, precipitous decline in biodiversity, and reduced resilience to natural hazards and climate change. The efficacy of the standard treatment of environmental law and regulation is often hampered by the cultural and legal priority of property rights. We take a different approach, using legal geography to refocus attention on the salience and agency of place and responses to degradation, such as conservation farming and regenerative agriculture, which are reforming dominant land management cultures and institutions from within. By recognising the role of place in leading geographically responsive land use decision-making and more sustainable, resilient, and productive agricultural practices, an alternative model of private land ownership may be possible, as well as greater environmental sustainability. For researchers, our approaches too must be sensitive and responsive to place agency and our methodologies must evolve to acknowledge the agency of place. Place agency in legal geography has great potential for application in reforming suboptimal industrial agricultural practices and legal models of property ownership, and also for revitalising our scholarship.
AB - Systemic failure of our land management, legal, and regulatory institutions is revealed by the serious and adverse social and environmental impacts of land use practices in private agriculture, evident in severe land and water degradation, precipitous decline in biodiversity, and reduced resilience to natural hazards and climate change. The efficacy of the standard treatment of environmental law and regulation is often hampered by the cultural and legal priority of property rights. We take a different approach, using legal geography to refocus attention on the salience and agency of place and responses to degradation, such as conservation farming and regenerative agriculture, which are reforming dominant land management cultures and institutions from within. By recognising the role of place in leading geographically responsive land use decision-making and more sustainable, resilient, and productive agricultural practices, an alternative model of private land ownership may be possible, as well as greater environmental sustainability. For researchers, our approaches too must be sensitive and responsive to place agency and our methodologies must evolve to acknowledge the agency of place. Place agency in legal geography has great potential for application in reforming suboptimal industrial agricultural practices and legal models of property ownership, and also for revitalising our scholarship.
KW - agriculture
KW - legal geography
KW - methodology
KW - place
KW - property
KW - sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85141438402&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1745-5871.12566
DO - 10.1111/1745-5871.12566
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85141438402
SN - 1745-5863
VL - 61
SP - 193
EP - 206
JO - Geographical Research
JF - Geographical Research
IS - 2
ER -
