Table of Contents
List of Figures
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Local Places, Global Processes: In Search of the Environment, Paul Warde, Peter Coates and David Moon
2. Three Places, Peter Coates, Paul Warde and David Moon
A. ENVIRONMENT AND LANDSCAPE
3. The Environment, Paul Warde
4. Landscape Character Assessment and the Quantocks during the Nuclear Age, Emma-Jane Preece
5. The Curious Case of the Missing History at Kielder, Richard Oram
6. Birds and Squirrels as History, T. C. Smout
7. The ‘Nature’ of ‘Artificial’ Forests?, Chris Pearson
B. PLACES
8. Not All Those Who Wander are Lost: Walking in the Quantock Hills, Marianna Dudley
9. An Amphibious Culture: Coping with Floods in the Netherlands, Petra J. E. M. van Dam
10. Names and Places, Paul Warde
11. Constructing the Kielder Landscape: Plantations, Dams and the Romantic Ideal, Jill Payne
12. The Kielder Oral History Project: Three Case Studies, Leona Jayne Skelton
13. Wild Britannia: Environmental History, Wildlife Television and New Publics in Britain, Robert A. Lambert
ART INSERTS
14. John Clare, Drainage and Printmaking, Carry Akroyd
15. Landscape and the Artist in Twenty-First Century Britain, Jenny Graham
16. Kielder: A Planned Wilderness, Peter Sharpe
C. BEAUTY AND AESTHETICS
17. Beauty and the Aesthetics of Place, Nature and Environment, Peter Coates
18. Light on Landscape: An Antipodean View, Libby Robin
19. ‘Beauty and the Motorway – The Problem for All’: Motoring through the Quantocks Area of Natural Beauty, Tim Cole
20. The Beautiful and the Global, Petra J. E. M. van Dam
21. Reservoirs, Military Bases and Environmental Change: Joining the Dots, Chris Pearson
22. Species Conservation at Kielder: Animating Place with Animals, Duncan Hutt
D. CHANGE, CHOICE AND FUTURES
23. Environmental Change: A Local Perspective on Global Processes, David Moon and Leona Jayne Skelton
24. Hidden History: Kielder’s Early Modern Landscape, Matt Greenhall
25. Waterlands to Wonderlands, Paul Warde
26. Kielder Dam and Reservoir, Jonty Hall
27. Kielder Forest, Graham Gill
28. National Trust: ‘Wicken Fen Vision’ (2009) [extracts]
29. Kielder Water and Forest Park: The City in the Country, Christine McCulloch
30. Nature, Cultural Choice and History, T. C. Smout
31. Concluding Reflections, David Moon, Peter Coates and Paul Warde
Acknowledgements
Timeline of Events
List of Contributors