Agri-environment schemes have been developed by the member states
of the European Union over the last 10 years. Under Regulation 2078/92,
the UK has supported English Nature in the implementation of a nature
conservation scheme for wet grazing land in southern England. This
paper explores the different understandings of nature held by farmers
and conservationists who are participating in the Wildlife Enhancement
Scheme, by drawing on qualitative research completed between 1993
and 1995. Through the application of actor network theory, the analysis
compares the role and identity ascribed to farmers by conservationists
with the identity that farmers’ construct of themselves. The former
construct farmers as technicians, ignorant of the workings of nature,
whereas the farmers see themselves as ‘natural conservationists’.
The paper explores how nature is translated differently in the worlds
of conservation science and agriculture. In the final part of the
paper, discussion focuses on the management of the wetland ditches
where these sets of translations come together. It reveals that the
rigid, scientific prescriptions for management of the conservation
value of the ditches are considerably at odds with the more flexible
and sensitive practices of farmers themselves.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Burgess2000/10
%A Burgess, Jacquelin
%A Clark, Judy
%A Harrison, Carolyn M.
%D 2000/10
%J Ecological Economics
%K Actor Agri-environment Farmers Wetland conservation; network schemes; theory;
%N 1
%P 119-132
%T Knowledges in action: an actor network analysis of a wetland agri-environment
scheme
%V 35
%X Agri-environment schemes have been developed by the member states
of the European Union over the last 10 years. Under Regulation 2078/92,
the UK has supported English Nature in the implementation of a nature
conservation scheme for wet grazing land in southern England. This
paper explores the different understandings of nature held by farmers
and conservationists who are participating in the Wildlife Enhancement
Scheme, by drawing on qualitative research completed between 1993
and 1995. Through the application of actor network theory, the analysis
compares the role and identity ascribed to farmers by conservationists
with the identity that farmers’ construct of themselves. The former
construct farmers as technicians, ignorant of the workings of nature,
whereas the farmers see themselves as ‘natural conservationists’.
The paper explores how nature is translated differently in the worlds
of conservation science and agriculture. In the final part of the
paper, discussion focuses on the management of the wetland ditches
where these sets of translations come together. It reveals that the
rigid, scientific prescriptions for management of the conservation
value of the ditches are considerably at odds with the more flexible
and sensitive practices of farmers themselves.
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abstract = {Agri-environment schemes have been developed by the member states
of the European Union over the last 10 years. Under Regulation 2078/92,
the UK has supported English Nature in the implementation of a nature
conservation scheme for wet grazing land in southern England. This
paper explores the different understandings of nature held by farmers
and conservationists who are participating in the Wildlife Enhancement
Scheme, by drawing on qualitative research completed between 1993
and 1995. Through the application of actor network theory, the analysis
compares the role and identity ascribed to farmers by conservationists
with the identity that farmers’ construct of themselves. The former
construct farmers as technicians, ignorant of the workings of nature,
whereas the farmers see themselves as ‘natural conservationists’.
The paper explores how nature is translated differently in the worlds
of conservation science and agriculture. In the final part of the
paper, discussion focuses on the management of the wetland ditches
where these sets of translations come together. It reveals that the
rigid, scientific prescriptions for management of the conservation
value of the ditches are considerably at odds with the more flexible
and sensitive practices of farmers themselves.},
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