Local knowledge and environmental responsibility: the case of the Adirondack region of New York
by Charles R. Simpson
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), Vol. 8, No. 1, 2006

Abstract: Organisms are linked to specific environments by dependence and information flows. Humans are also ''landed'' through a feedback system of local knowledge that respects sustaining landscapes. Extensive monocultures aligning place functions with the interests of national and global elites destroy the cultural and political basis of sustainability. Wilderness zones, putative corrections to excessive extraction, are another monoculture within the global mosaic, displacing local populations with class-stratified recreation, genetic banking, and ideological ''greening''. New York's Adirondack region illustrates this, from the replacement of indigenous populations with timber ''mining' and recreational estates to its codification as ''wilderness'', shifting extraction to the global South.

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