Plantations and Sustainability Science: The Environmental and Political Settings (Report‪)‬

Perceiving: land-use choices are symbolic and political It is a truism, but nonetheless worth stating, that all plantations occur in, or are, definable parts of landscapes, relating to many other social and biophysical processes. Furthermore, all Australian landscapes are cultural--they have been fashioned by the numerous choices of countless generations, including ours. These landscapes are interpreted and reinterpreted through the lens of our culture. Both belief and physical landscapes are formed by cultures working on or with nature (and nature working on culture), and understood through frameworks of belief and cultural understanding that continue to evolve and adapt.