LED2LEAP 2020 - Parc Regional Aubrac
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| Area | Natural Regional Park of Aubrac | |
| Place | Aubrac, Saint Chély d'Aubrac | |
| Country | France | |
| Topics | landscape / agriculture / natural area / village | |
| Author(s) | Rémy Teyssèdre | |
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Landscape Democracy Rationale
- Why do you think this community context is relevant from a landscape democracy perspective? What is your hypothesis considering the landscape democracy challenges?
Many groups have opposite points of view on this territory because haven't same uses and practices of territory, and their waiting are opposite. Landscapes are a transdisciplinary subject. With them we can talk about a lot of points. But the local social context is difficult and the landscape is already creating conflicts. I think the challenge is to create a device for democracy on the right scale, and some subjects are too dangerous to create exchanges.
Location and scope
The Natural Regional Park is a political space and geographic. It's an institution, with elected, with functionaries, and is aim the economic help, agriculture and touristic development, natural area and river management...
Phase A: Mapping your Community
Welcome to your community and its landscape
The natural regional park of Aubrac is in the south of France, between two regions, three departments. He's composed to sixty-four municipalities. There are two area. The municipalities in the park, and municipalities associated to politic institution. It’s almost same. The area had always division and have many influences. It’s a young park created there are two years. It's a mountain. The valleys around the mountain is his limits.
For explain spatial characteristics; the valleys and the highway have the most important populations. There are lots of urbanization, commercial or housing. The plateau is more desert. The villages are smalls, there are only farmers, and tourism activities. And small snow station. In Laguiole the main village in the plateau, there are more art and craft. The knife of Laguiole, it's famous. The identity of this area is the agriculture, the cow “Aubrac”, the food and restaurants. The differences are big between valleys and plateau. Inhabitants in valley thinks that the Park is only in the mountain. There are not similar perception and regard.
There are ten landscape type. But, six are the principals. On the left, there are the less famous: more wilderness, less beautiful for people, the valleys of west area are less knows. In the center of map, it's a landscape of steppe as in Mongolia created by farmers and monks of monastery on St James way. It’s the plateau, meadows are large open area of grassland with rare flowers. There are lots of rock and stone in the land-grass. It’s a territory very difficult with lots of relief, a climate strong, with snow and wind the winter and hot the summer. There are lots of problem in the area, as addiction to tourism, no activities in winter, the dependence to agriculture in endangered by crisis or by global warming, the isolation of the inhabitants and their ages.
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Groups of actors and stakeholders in your community
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Relationships between your actors and groups
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- Local population are opposed to secondary residents and tourists. Farmers are opposed to tourists and people who have outdoor recreations because shared the same space.
Groups have common interests too. Hosts and Restorers, agricultural circle, and Craftsmen and trader have same economic interest. People who have outdoor recreations, hunter, and tourist love the same area. But the shared spaces create problems more strong that pacts.
The territory's population is old. There are many groups and the most powerful are farmers. Second residents, tourists, are the second group. Their landscape aspirations are opposed. Heritage, wilderness, traditional agriculture for them and productive space for first.
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Summary of your learnings from the transnational discussion panel on April 22
On April 22 you will present the PPT version of this first assignment to other seminar groups working in other geographical community contexts. Please give here a short summary of your learnings during this presentation, for example:
- Other analytical approaches
- Other representation styles
- Other value schemes: any surprises?
- Constructive comments we received on our presentation
Theory reflection
- Reflect on at least three readings from the first section 'Democratic Landscape Transformation
- You can choose references from our reading list or suggest others
- Scope: 250 words
References
- give a full list of the references you have used for this section
Phase B: Democratic Landscape Analysis and Assessment
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Phase C: Collaborative Visioning and Goal Setting
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Phase D: Collaborative Design, Transformation and Planning
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Phase E: Collaborative Design, Transformation and Planning
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= Phase E: Collaborative Evaluation and Future Agendas * template coming
Process Reflection
- Reflect in your intercultural and interdisciplinary team on the outcomes of your study
- Which limitations were you facing?
- What have you learnt from each other?
- What would you do differently next time?
- You can also use diagrams/visuals
- 250 words text