People-Nature Interactions in the Anthropocene

This volume is a collection of essays and papers examining emerging themes relating to the interactions between people and the rest of nature in the ‘Anthropocene’. These themes are often driven by global change and typically manifested as changes to landscape. The consequences of long-term, intimate connections between people and place with people ‘a part of nature’ rather than ‘apart from nature’, are reflected in the Anthropocene through the eco-cultural nature of landscapes, derived from our long-term environmental history. Key areas of interaction include development of novel and recombinant ecologies and their associated management problems increasingly evidenced around globally. In the contemporary, rapidly changing Earth system, the breakdown of intimate connections between Local communities including Indigenous Peoples, and their immediate access to nature or natural resources can trigger the process of ‘cultural severance’. This severance gives rise to major shifts in long-term ecosystem and species dynamics. These issues and processes have significant implications for concepts and practices of ecological restoration, regeneration, and reconstruction, including the current vogues of ‘wilding’ or ‘rewilding’. Along with core themed papers we also call for detailed case studies to illustrate particular points, issues, and experiences relating to this melange of issues. We do not wish to debate the range of definitions for the Anthropocene, rather allow for different views based on theoretical work or case studies.Themes of interest:1. The nature of the Anthropocene and the possibilities for ‘Novel’ and ‘Recombinant’ ecological systems for conservation and restoration.2. The implications for conservation, regeneration and restoration in cultural landscapes and bio-cultural diversity.3. Examples of long-term people-nature interactions from woods, forests, peatlands, and agrarian systems.4. Implications for ecosystem conservation and restoration from cultural severance - the breakdown of people-nature connections. Topic editors: Peter Bridgewater, Ian Rotherham, Alper Hüseyin ÇOLAK Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/79429/people-nature-interactions-in-the-anthropocene