Tag: socio-ecology

  • How much would you pay NOT to visit a Nature Reserve?

    My  assumption is that visitors attending nature reserves cause damage and disturbance, no matter how lightly they tread. So, how much would you pay not to visit one? Would it be enough just to know it was there doing what it does, but better for your absence. Many of us already pay for the conservation of…

  • The shadow and the landscape; notes on the nature of experience

    Autumn is the best time to play hide-and-seek: it smudges the edges of the world. The space between the parenthesis of dawn and dusk is barely daylight, more a leaf-strewn, muddy puddle, a tree-bare, bonfire-smoke-poem. The distinction between object and background is confused. A boon to the hider,  but a nightmare for the seeker.  We…