Skálanes ...

• Main Author: Petursson, O
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Liverpool John Moores University 2024
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.24377/ljmu.t.00022219; https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22219

This study focuses on Skálanes, an independent field centre and conservation site in East Iceland, as a case study set within a framework of successful modern eco-pragmatic sustainability transitions. It addresses complex environmental problems and the realities of applied research in a transdisciplinary action research context through the lens of a retroactively framed living lab. Using pragmatism as the underlying philosophy, and autoethnography as the key methodological framework, the study examines the three classic sustainability pillars of environment, economy, and society and provides the following outputs of: (1) a locally calibrated environmentally focused food consumption system at Skálanes, (2) a modernistic conservation policy in the Anthropocene and a philosophical conservation manifesto applicable for Skálanes and Iceland (3). It also includes (4) a founding director's narrative with analysis and reflections on the process of evolution of small-scale rural independent conservation niche ...