Made-to-Measure: In and Out of Touch with the Old-Growth Forest
Abstract The condition of forests is a major issue when it comes to climate change and biodiversity. One way to define the quality of a forest is by its age. In the cross pressure of socio-economic and ecological guidelines, what qualifies as an old-growth forest is not determined by a mere number b...
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crspringernat:10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_10 2024-03-10T08:31:43+00:00 Made-to-Measure: In and Out of Touch with the Old-Growth Forest Vola, Joonas Rautio, Pasi Rantala, Outi 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_10 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_10 unknown Springer Nature Switzerland https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Arctic Encounters Researching with Proximity page 147-164 ISSN 2730-6488 2730-6496 ISBN 9783031394997 9783031395000 book-chapter 2023 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_10 2024-02-13T17:40:45Z Abstract The condition of forests is a major issue when it comes to climate change and biodiversity. One way to define the quality of a forest is by its age. In the cross pressure of socio-economic and ecological guidelines, what qualifies as an old-growth forest is not determined by a mere number but the co-constitution of various measurements, indicators, political ambitions, and the performance of the measured biological ‘units’ themselves. This transdisciplinary chapter studies how old-growth forests are made-to-measure, moving from close proximity encounters with an indicator organism, being-with-beard lichen, to the internationally defined level and timescale of economic activity and (un)management in categorising forest ecology, wherein various compromises in decision-making may also compromise local ecosystems and the vastness of scale in the biosphere. The study heads off to the ‘roots’ of science—definitions, conceptualisations, onto-epistemology, and methodologies—considering how they as active processes are performing the entity of the ‘old-growth forest’ by cutting-together-apart on multiple scales. Book Part Arctic Springer Nature 147 164 |
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Abstract The condition of forests is a major issue when it comes to climate change and biodiversity. One way to define the quality of a forest is by its age. In the cross pressure of socio-economic and ecological guidelines, what qualifies as an old-growth forest is not determined by a mere number but the co-constitution of various measurements, indicators, political ambitions, and the performance of the measured biological ‘units’ themselves. This transdisciplinary chapter studies how old-growth forests are made-to-measure, moving from close proximity encounters with an indicator organism, being-with-beard lichen, to the internationally defined level and timescale of economic activity and (un)management in categorising forest ecology, wherein various compromises in decision-making may also compromise local ecosystems and the vastness of scale in the biosphere. The study heads off to the ‘roots’ of science—definitions, conceptualisations, onto-epistemology, and methodologies—considering how they as active processes are performing the entity of the ‘old-growth forest’ by cutting-together-apart on multiple scales. |
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