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放养的生态效益，但关于重新放养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的野生项目有关的自然观念的社会循环来为实践提供信息。现有的重新野生化研究指出，改变政策以支持重新野生化存在一些障碍。这些研究表明，文化、法律框架和经济往往会阻碍野生项目的开展。其中许多研究都提出了新的经济框架和政策，以使重新野生化在经济和法律上都是可行的。然而，很少有学者研究如何克服重新野生化的文化障碍，这阻碍了在这一点上制定政策。如果要使野化项目成为替代目前土地管理和保护方法的一种严肃办法，就必须产生有关这些文化障碍如何发挥作用的知识和经验。本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野生化项目相关，特别是这些意识形态如何回应和联系自然生态过程的恢复。这将通过研究不同的群体和利益如何感知自然，以及理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关于重新放养的文化障碍的研究的空白，并将协助制定政策。

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.