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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Main Author: Marie Méténier
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Language:English
Published: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes 2019-10-01
Series:L'Espace Politique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/6154
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description 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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spelling doaj-art-252ce02bd4be460587bea0453b8d32092025-08-20T02:26:42ZengUniversité de Reims Champagne-ArdennesL'Espace Politique1958-55002019-10-013710.4000/espacepolitique.6154Lutte environnementale dans le parc national de Dartmoor : (re)définition d’un territoire de nature protégée par la dynamique conflictuelleMarie MéténierDartmoor 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.https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/6154representationsEnglandenvironmental strugglelitigationnational park
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Lutte environnementale dans le parc national de Dartmoor : (re)définition d’un territoire de nature protégée par la dynamique conflictuelle
L'Espace Politique
representations
England
environmental struggle
litigation
national park
title Lutte environnementale dans le parc national de Dartmoor : (re)définition d’un territoire de nature protégée par la dynamique conflictuelle
title_full Lutte environnementale dans le parc national de Dartmoor : (re)définition d’un territoire de nature protégée par la dynamique conflictuelle
title_fullStr Lutte environnementale dans le parc national de Dartmoor : (re)définition d’un territoire de nature protégée par la dynamique conflictuelle
title_full_unstemmed Lutte environnementale dans le parc national de Dartmoor : (re)définition d’un territoire de nature protégée par la dynamique conflictuelle
title_short Lutte environnementale dans le parc national de Dartmoor : (re)définition d’un territoire de nature protégée par la dynamique conflictuelle
title_sort lutte environnementale dans le parc national de dartmoor re definition d un territoire de nature protegee par la dynamique conflictuelle
topic representations
England
environmental struggle
litigation
national park
url https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/6154
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