Understanding Changing Cultural Perceptions of Nature in Relation to Rewilding Projects

虽然有越来越多的证据表明重新野生动物的生态效益，但关于重新野生动物的社会学影响的研究仍然很少。这项调查将有助于通过了解与特定野生动物保护项目有关的关于自然的思想的社会循环，为实践提供信息。现有的关于退耕还林的研究指出，在改变支持退耕还林的政策方面存在许多障碍。这些研究表明，文化、法律框架和经济经常起作用，以防止重新野生项目的发生。其中许多研究建议了新的经济框架和政策，以使重新放牧在经济上和法律上可行。然而，很少有学者研究如何克服重新野生的文化障碍，这阻碍了在这一点上制定政策。如果重新开垦项目要成为当前土地管理和保护方法的重要替代方案，就必须提供这些文化障碍如何发挥作用的知识和经验。这项研究将利用齐泽克对社会意识形态的理解来理解自然意识形态如何与当地的重新野生项目有关，特别是这些意识形态如何响应并与自然生态过程的恢复相联系。这将通过研究不同的群体和利益集团如何感知自然，并通过了解这种感知如何随着时间的推移而变化来实现。研究成果将有助于填补对重新野生动物的文化障碍研究的空白，并将有助于政策的制定。

While there is a growing body of evidence showing the ecological benefits of rewilding, research on the sociological effect of rewilding is still scarce. This investigation will help to inform practice through understanding the social circulation of ideas about nature in relation to a specific rewilding project. Existing studies of rewilding note a number of barriers to changing policy in support of rewilding. These studies show how culture, legal frameworks, and economics often function to prevent rewilding projects taking place. Many of these studies suggest new economic frameworks and policies to make rewilding economically and legally viable. However, few academics have studied how to overcome the cultural barriers to rewilding, which prevents policies being developed on this point. If rewilding projects are to become a serious alternative to current land management and conservation methods, knowledge and experience of how these cultural barriers function must be produced. This study will use Zizek's understanding of social ideology to understand how ideologies of nature function in relation to a local rewilding project, in particular, how these ideologies respond and connect to restoration of natural ecological processes. This will be achieved by examining how various groups and interests perceive nature, and by understanding how this perception changes over time. The research output will help to fill the absence of research on cultural barriers to rewilding and will assist with the development of policy.