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The Places that Speak to Us and the Publics We Talk With: Shaping Environmental Histories

与我们交谈的地方和与我们交谈的公众：塑造环境历史

基本信息

批准号：
AH/L503484/1
负责人：
Peter Coates
金额：
$ 2.04万
依托单位：
University of Bristol
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FL503484%2F1
关键词：
Places Speak Us Publics Talk

项目摘要

REC (Researching Environmental Change) PROJECT: 'The Places That Speak to Us and the Publics We Talk With' (PI, Peter Coates, Bristol University) PARTNER: Quantock Hills AONB Service (Fyne Court, Broomfield, Somerset) BACKGROUND TO PLANNED ACTIVITYOne of the Partners for the REC project 'The Places That Speak to Us and the Publics We Talk With' is the team that manages the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB Service). The collaboration's focal point has been 'Fallen Fruits: Mapping the Disappearing Orchard Landscape of the Quantock Hills' - a 3-month work package conducted and completed during Spring 2012 by Marianna Dudley (a post-doctoral researcher whose doctoral work was AHRC-funded and who currently holds a 9-month AHRC Early Career Fellowship at Bristol U. under Coates' mentorship).Orchards are an integral feature of Somerset's physical, cultural and economic landscapes. Over the past half-century, however, mirroring national trends, orchard cover has declined dramatically (63% nationally since 1950, according to a 2011 report by Natural England). Though Somerset orchard studies focus on other parts of the county, exploratory work by the AONB Service in 2010 suggested that orchards might have been a larger ingredient of the Quantocks than previously thought. The desirability of a full scale study provided the opportunity to extend the collaboration initiated during planning for the immediately preceding REC/LWEC Research Network, 'Local Places, Global Processes: Histories of Environmental Change' (2011). (Coates also worked with the AONB Service to develop a Quantock walk for the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) - one of the first batch of walks in the recently launched 'Discovering Britain' project: http://www.discoveringbritain.org/walks/region/south-west-england/quantocks.html)Dudley's research (publicized, like the RGS walk, on the AONB Service's website) created a new set of multi-layered maps that plot former, current and remnant orchard sites within the AONB area and its buffer zone. Rooted in solid empirical evidence of the significance of orchards to the local economy, community and ecology (traditional orchards are designated priority habitat under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan), bids for funding to replant trees will pack more punch. Toward the end of Dudley's project, the desirability of a follow-on, parish-level phase became clear: the use of data from early-to-mid-nineteenth-century tithe records and maps - digitized at the Somerset Heritage Centre during her project's latter stages - to generate micro-level information for each parish with AONB land. 'Fallen Fruits, Phase 2' is the subject of a pending application for £5,970 that Coates recently submitted (28 September 2012) to the Quantock Hills AONB Sustainable Development Fund administered by Somerset County Council (decision expected in November 2012; as part of this application, Coates secured funding for the remaining 25% of costs from a bequest for horticultural research held by Bristol's School of Biological Sciences). This innovative digital resource will immediately inform land use decisions, providing the AONB Service and parish councils with the evidence to encourage community orchard planting at parish level, and even the reinstatement of community presses - an event that can reinforce community ties in an area where growing numbers of inhabitants have moved in from elsewhere. Phase 3, the subject of this application to the £20,000 follow-on fund, moves the Orchard Project into fresh territory. Following extensive discussion with the AONB Service, we plan to hold an Apple Event timetabled for the week in October 2013 that includes National Apple Day (21 October): 'At the Core of the Quantocks'.PROPOSED ACTIVITY: AT THE CORE OF THE QUANTOCKS'At the Core of the Quantocks' consists of two interwoven strands: 1. 'Let Your Creative Juices Flow' - an Apple Poetry Event, with poetry commissioned specially for the occasion. To be organized in conjunction with Professor Ralph Pite, Romantic and ecological literature specialist and poet, who directs Bristol U.'s Institute for Advanced Studies, http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ias/people/ralph-profile.html, as well as Professor Daniel Karlin, director of the recently launched (10 October 2010) Bristol Poetry Institute (http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2012/8840.html). 2. 'Know Your Orchard' - an associated 'road show'-style event at Fyne Court, Broomfield (AONB Service headquarters) that is modelled on events held earlier his year as part of the AHRC Connected Communities 'Know Your Place, Know Your Bristol' project, on which Coates was a CI and organizer of the 'Know Your Zoo' event (12 May). This will provide an opportunity for community members to find out more about local orchards, past, present and future, and to contribute orchard memories and memorabilia. We have procured the services of a locally-based event organizer, Rachel Kelly, whose experience includes organizing the Exmoor Food Festival over several years. As she has also administered the Exmoor Tourist Association, Kelly has a wealth of contacts in the local food world. She also works part-time as business manager for 10Radio, Somerset's first not-for-profit community radio station (est. 2008). Based in Wiveliscombe, 10Radio serves ten parishes in the Quantock area (with a combined population of 100,000, including most of Taunton and Wellington). http://10radio.org/ 10Radio's outdoor broadcast vehicle will provide live FM transmission (and also broadcast on-line to 2,000 signed-up listeners). We will also investigate additional forms of dissemination. An initial planning task will be to arrange meetings with BBC1's Countryfile team (based at Bristol's Natural History Unit) and with Mark Smalley, producer for BBC Radio 4's Bristol-based 'Poetry Please'. Pite has already consulted various poets, who are all enthusiastic. The poetry readings will be bookended by apple, apple juice and cider tastings. Participants will also have the chance to try their hand at apple pressing (Kelly has access to two community presses). The event as a whole will provide a fertile environment for canvassing local opinion regarding the importance of orchards and attitudes to their decline and potential return. Feedback from this event will inform the AONB Service's forthcoming Management Plan Review (for 2015-2020).'At the Core of the Quantocks' is the outcome of extensive discussion with Iain Porter, AONB Service acting manager, Georgie Grant, communications officer, and Emma-Jane Preece, landscape planning officer, and enjoys their full support. These activities - tailored to the AONB's mandate to conserve and enhance natural beauty, to protect/augment biodiversity and encourage community engagement, as well as specific forthcoming Management Plan objectives (2015-20) - will disseminate the findings of the AHRC-funded Orchard Project more widely and through different media and heighten awareness of Quantock orchards as a multiple-value resource. The AONB Service has also invited Coates to contribute a weekly guest blog to its website http://www.quantockhills.com/ that raises the subjects of apples, orchards, environmental values and place-based identities within the wider context of arts and humanities research on landscape and environment. (His first blog, marking National Apple Day and Coleridge's birthday on 21 October, recently appeared.) These bogs will be promoted on the Service's Facebook page (3,000 friends) and its Twitter page (550 followers). They will also feature in the AONB Service's electronic newsletter.

REC（环境变化研究）项目：“与我们和我们交谈的公众交谈的地方”（PI，Peter Coates，布里斯托大学）合作伙伴：Quantock Hills AONB 服务（萨默塞特郡布鲁姆菲尔德法恩法院）计划活动背景 REC 项目“与我们和我们交谈的公众交谈的地方”的合作伙伴之一是管理 Quantock Hills 的团队杰出自然美景区（AONB 服务）。此次合作的重点是“掉落的果实：绘制匡托克山正在消失的果园景观”，这是一个为期 3 个月的工作包，由 Marianna Dudley（一位博士后研究员，其博士论文由 AHRC 资助，目前在科茨的指导下在布里斯托尔大学获得了为期 9 个月的 AHRC 早期职业奖学金）在 2012 年春季进行并完成了一个为期 3 个月的工作包。萨默塞特的自然、文化和经济景观。然而，在过去的半个世纪里，果园覆盖率急剧下降（根据自然英格兰 2011 年的报告，自 1950 年以来，全国果园覆盖率下降了 63%），这反映了全国的趋势。尽管萨默塞特郡果园研究的重点是该县的其他地区，但 2010 年 AONB Service 的探索性工作表明，果园在 Quantocks 中所占的比例可能比之前想象的要大。全面研究的可取性为扩展之前的 REC/LWEC 研究网络“本地地方，全球过程：环境变化历史”（2011 年）规划期间发起的合作提供了机会。（科茨还与 AONB 服务部门合作，为皇家地理学会 (RGS-IBG) 开发了 Quantock 步道，这是最近启动的“发现英国”项目的第一批步道之一：http://www.discoveringbritain.org/walks/region/south-west-england/quantocks.html）Dudley 的研究（已公开，与 RGS 步道一样，在 AONB 服务网站上）创建了一套新的多层地图，绘制了 AONB 区域及其缓冲区内以前、现在和剩余的果园地点。植根于果园对当地经济、社区和生态重要性的坚实经验证据（传统果园被英国生物多样性行动计划指定为优先栖息地），重新种植树木的资金竞标将更具冲击力。在达德利的项目接近尾声时，后续教区层面阶段的愿望变得清晰起来：使用十九世纪早期到中期什一税记录和地图的数据（在她的项目后期阶段在萨默塞特遗产中心进行数字化）为拥有 AONB 土地的每个教区生成微观层面的信息。 “Fallen Fruits，第二阶段”是 Coates 最近向萨默塞特县议会管理的 Quantock Hills AONB 可持续发展基金提交的 5,970 英镑的待决申请（预计于 2012 年 11 月做出决定；作为该申请的一部分，Coates 从布里斯托尔生物科学学院的园艺研究遗赠中获得了剩余 25% 费用的资金）（2012 年 9 月 28 日）。这一创新的数字资源将立即为土地使用决策提供信息，为 AONB 服务和教区委员会提供证据，鼓励在教区一级种植社区果园，甚至恢复社区印刷机 - 这一活动可以在越来越多的居民从其他地方搬入的地区加强社区联系。第三阶段是 20,000 英镑后续基金申请的主题，将 Orchard 项目带入新的领域。经过与 AONB 服务部的广泛讨论后，我们计划在 2013 年 10 月的一周举办一次 Apple 活动，其中包括国家苹果日（10 月 21 日）：“在 Quantocks 的核心”。拟议的活动：在 Quantocks 的核心“在 Quantocks 的核心”由两条相互交织的线索组成： 1.“让您的创意源源不断流动”- 一项以诗歌形式举办的 Apple 诗歌活动专为该场合委托制作。与浪漫主义和生态文学专家兼诗人 Ralph Pite 教授、布里斯托尔大学高级研究所所长 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ias/people/ralph-profile.html 以及最近成立的（2010 年 10 月 10 日）布里斯托尔诗歌研究所所长 Daniel Karlin 教授共同组织（http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2012/8840.html）。 2.“了解你的果园”——在布鲁姆菲尔德 Fyne Court（AONB 服务总部）举行的一项相关“路演”式活动，以今年早些时候作为 AHRC 互联社区“了解你的地方，了解你的布里斯托尔”项目的一部分举办的活动为蓝本，科茨是该项目的 CI 和“了解你的动物园”活动（5 月 12 日）的组织者。这将为社区成员提供更多了解当地果园的过去、现在和未来的机会，并贡献果园记忆和纪念品。我们聘请了当地活动组织者 Rachel Kelly 的服务，她的经验包括组织埃克斯穆尔美食节多年。由于凯利还管理着埃克斯穆尔旅游协会，因此她在当地美食界拥有丰富的人脉。她还兼职担任 10Radio 的业务经理，这是萨默塞特第一家非营利性社区广播电台（成立于 2008 年）。 10Radio 总部位于 Wiveliscombe，为 Quantock 地区的 10 个教区（总人口为 100,000，包括汤顿和惠灵顿的大部分地区）提供服务。 http://10radio.org/ 10Radio 的户外广播车将提供现场 FM 传输（并且还向 2,000 名注册听众进行在线广播）。我们还将调查其他传播形式。最初的计划任务是安排与 BBC1 的 Countryfile 团队（位于布里斯托尔自然历史部门）以及与 BBC 广播 4 台布里斯托尔“Poetry Please”制作人 Mark Smalley 的会面。皮特已经咨询过多位诗人，他们都很热心。诗歌朗诵会以苹果、苹果汁和苹果酒品尝活动结束。参与者还将有机会尝试压榨苹果（凯利可以使用两台社区压榨机）。整个活动将为收集当地关于果园重要性的意见以及对果园衰落和潜在回归的态度提供一个肥沃的环境。此次活动的反馈将为 AONB 服务即将进行的管理计划审查（2015-2020 年）提供信息。“Quantocks 的核心”是与 AONB 服务代理经理 Iain Porter、通讯官 Georgie Grant 和景观规划官 Emma-Jane Preece 广泛讨论的结果，并得到他们的全力支持。这些活动是根据 AONB 保护和增强自然美景、保护/增强生物多样性和鼓励社区参与的使命以及即将到来的具体管理计划目标（2015-20）量身定制的，将通过不同媒体更广泛地传播 AHRC 资助的果园项目的研究结果，并提高人们对 Quantock 果园作为多价值资源的认识。 AONB Service 还邀请 Coates 在其网站 http://www.quantockhills.com/ 上撰写每周客座博客，在景观和环境的艺术和人文研究的更广泛背景下提出苹果、果园、环境价值和基于地方的身份等主题。（他的第一个博客最近发布，纪念全国苹果日和 10 月 21 日柯勒律治的生日。）这些博客将在该服务的 Facebook 页面（3,000 位朋友）和 Twitter 页面（550 位关注者）上进行宣传。它们还将出现在 AONB 服务的电子通讯中。