Empowering landscape ecology-connecting science to governance through design values

The relationship between science, design, local governance and values is explored using a Christchurch New Zealand case study. Arguments for greater use of design in science are reviewed, and design revealed as fundamentally different from science, being based upon values rather than logic. The role...

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Published in:Landscape ecology 2013-07, Vol.28 (6), p.1193-1201
Main Author: Swaffield, Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Design
Ecology
Environmental Management
Landscape Ecology
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
Life Sciences
Local government
Nature Conservation
Research Article
Sustainable design
Sustainable Development
Waterways
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Summary:The relationship between science, design, local governance and values is explored using a Christchurch New Zealand case study. Arguments for greater use of design in science are reviewed, and design revealed as fundamentally different from science, being based upon values rather than logic. The role of local governance is examined, and also shown to be value based. This creates tensions with conventional logic based approaches to landscape science. A recently proposed model of design in science is compared with an alternative model that emerges from the recent experience of preparing a wetlands and waterways strategy, in which science is instead engaged with a values based design process.
ISSN:0921-2973
1572-9761
DOI:10.1007/s10980-012-9765-9