Ethical viewpoints of landscaping and cohabitability
More than half of Earth’s habitable land is already in human use. Different land use and management practices significantly influence land’s cohabitability for many species. The current situation creates a pressing need to discuss the environmental ethics of land use in human-managed lands. What would environmental landscape ethics mean and how can it promote the shift our ‘landview’ in more life- and diversity-benign directions?
This panel, inspired by a new ERC research project ‘COHAB – Environmental Landscape Ethics’ discusses cohabitability and the environmental ethics of land use from farming to gardening. It invites experts from different disciplines to provide their viewpoints into the cohabitability of urban, agricultural, and forest landscapes. At the end, we will also invite audience to share their insights.
More information about the research project: /en/projects/cohab-environmental-landscape-ethics-a-theory-of-cohabitability
Multidisciplinary panelists
Christopher Raymond (Professor of Sustainability Science at University of Helsinki) is an interdisciplinary sustainability scientist with research interests in sense of place; the social valuation of ecosystem services; and the conservation of biodiversity. His new research project MUST focuses on multispecies sustainability transitions in of cities and regions.
Nora Schuurman (Researcher at University of Turku) has specialized in the interdisciplinary study of human-nonhuman animal relations especially from cultural and spatial perspectives. Her current research project Shared Paths: Forests as Multispecies Homes revolves around forests as multispecies homes.
Gonzalo Cortés-Capano (JYU.Wisdom Fellow Researcher at Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥) conducts interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability research where his areas of special interest include social-ecological systems, people-nature relations, stewardship, and philosophy. He works currently as the Wisdom Fellow in JYU.Wisdom.
Marjaana Toivonen (Senior Research Scientist at Finnish Environment Institute) has specialized in research on the interplay between biodiversity and agriculture, such as the effects of land use and agri-environment schemes on farmland biodiversity.
The panel is chaired by Teea Kortetmäki (Assistant Professor at Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥) who is the principal investigator of the new COHAB project.
You can join on-site or online
You can join the event on-site at Tietoniekka. If you like, you can eat lunch while listening the discussion. There´s also coffee serving at the end of the event.
The event is also going to be streamed online, so you can join us by clicking the link below. Hopefully we see you there!
