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This chapter explores landholders’ stories of conservation practice through learning-by-doing, as these stories offer a unique insight into the emergence of enviromental stewardship and the agency of non-humans in learning processes. Environmental stewardship also offers us a way to discuss how landholders’ conservation practices can develop into certain styles or dispositions over time. This chapter unpacks two distinct dispositions that emerged through situated encounter; (1) an active or hands-on approach to conservation, and (2) a passive or hands-off approach to conservation. In interrogating conservation as a human-environment relationship, this chapter provides a novel perspective on the application of experiential learning in conservation more broadly.
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Cooke, B., Lane, R. (2020). Learning Conservation Practice in Rural-Amenity Landscapes. In: Making Ecologies on Private Land. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31218-3_3
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