Lutte environnementale dans le parc national de Dartmoor : (re)définition d’un territoire de nature protégée par la dynamique conflictuelle
Dartmoor National Park, in England, has been the theatre of a struggle for more than 17 years led by a community of people, owners of a piece of woodland, willing to live according to the principles and practices of sustainable development. In direct conflict with the National Park Authority, both h...
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| Language: | English |
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Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes
2019-10-01
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| Series: | L'Espace Politique |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/6154 |
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| Summary: | Dartmoor National Park, in England, has been the theatre of a struggle for more than 17 years led by a community of people, owners of a piece of woodland, willing to live according to the principles and practices of sustainable development. In direct conflict with the National Park Authority, both have been engaged in a legal conflict to decide on the legal right of the community to live in the open countryside according to the planning system rules. Based on divergent environmental representations carried by various actors, the struggle also takes place in the media’s arena where new technologies are used to pay for the prohibitive costs of a final public enquiry after a multitude of planning appeals. This paper will be based on specific materials extracted from a main corpus of data, which is comprised of interviews taken from a large range of actors in order to provide a more complex framework. If environmental struggles are classical in protected areas, the outcomes raised overtake the simple case study. It asks the more general question of the right to live in National Parks in which property prices are higher compared to the national average, a premium reinforced by strict planning rules, which frame the ability to reside within it. Hence, a more positive statement can be made from the case in the sense that environmental struggles are a way to redefined not only places but also actors. |
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| ISSN: | 1958-5500 |