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This study delves into the concept of biological economies, encompassing various sectors like agriculture, forestry, and tourism. It examines how people interact in natural settings, creating wealth and dealing with conflicting interests, climate, and environmental changes.
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Constructing biological economies as a category • Biological economies – supply chains, globalised and commodified countryside or a combination of both? • At the centre of biological economies are people interacting in multiple networked places working in harmony or discordantly to make a living from 'natural' settings, processes & products. • These incorporate agri-, horti-, viti-culture, forestry, fishing, tourism/outdoor recreation, nature conservation, rural amenity migration etc, all that they create and influence, and all the social interactions with which they are associated.
Constructing biological economies as a category (2) • This approach encourages thinking about the production of biological economic-geographic knowledge as being conditioned primarily by concerns for: the creation of wealth/profit, collective enterprise, power and conflicting interests, climate, water, nature conservation, landscape, heritage, food, fibre, energy, employment, recreation & related local/global social & environmental interactions & change. • Methodologically this demands studies at a multitude of interconnected scales using a variety of quantitative, and interpretative (qualitative/ethnographic/historical) approaches – primary and secondary data sources.