The power of the narrative

Abstract:
Australian and many other landscapes have been expertly examined not only by scientists but – and more broadly – by creative artists. Thus, Judith Wright, Ken Taylor, John Olsen, Peter Sculthorpe and many others have contributed substantially to appreciation of our natural environment – at both national and international levels in literature, the visual arts, music and dance. Francis Ratcliffe (1938) tackled a broad canvas of the outback with his Flying Fox and Drifting Sand – a book routinely set as prescribed reading for Queensland schoolchildren. Banfield’s Confessions of a Beachcomber ([1908] 1974) is a more localised account that achieved worldwide renown for both E. J. Banfield and Dunk Island, subsequently conserved as a national park. Salcombe Harbour (Kingsbridge Estuary), a long-gazetted Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Devon, UK, has its genesis in Lord Tennyson’s nineteenth century poem ‘Crossing the Bar’. Du Maurier’s Frenchman’s Creek ([1941] 2015) cemented in the public mind the treasured Helford Passage, made an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (and Special Area of Conservation and Special Site of Scientific Interest) in Cornwall. In the USA, the now-iconic Yellowstone National Park is reported to have been inspired by Lewis and Clark’s journal writings (in 1805) about the region. Reservation of the French Camargue as a World Heritage Centre was reinforced by Christopher Parsons’ A Bull Called Marius (1971) and so on. Through writing and other arts, the future of such areas becomes embedded in national psyches. The arts can capture public imagination, awareness and engagement in a way that regulatory approaches to environmental management cannot. So, can an ‘environmental narrative’ – with a suite of alternative management tools – be developed into a supplementary instrument to environmental legislation to achieve sustainable land management outcomes? Given the persistent concerns about multiple issues in environmental management, we need widespread public engagement to create political suasion for effective action. Authoritative predictions about the future of our natural environment are discouraging, at all levels. For Australia, a review of Ecologically Sustainable Development in this journal summarises Macintosh (2015): ‘While ESD is commonly referenced in much contemporary legislation,... such provisions provide policy makers and regulators with little practical guidance and therefore can do little to protect the interests of future generations’ (Curran and Hollander 2015, 5). To deliver long-term results, the current reliance on government – and in turn on its almost sole management instrument (legislation) – is inadequate (Fisher 2010). Regulations are failing to provide examples of sustainable development and, furthermore, are now fostering noncompliance, revocations of environmental laws and sometimes contrary court interpretations of the law. Other limitations of legislation include the impracticality of effective imposition over a vast and sparsely populated countryside of diverse ecosystems. Thus, while legislation is necessary, we need to go beyond regulatory tools to gain widespread public interest and support and offer more positive management incentive. Jenkins (2016) has advocated a move from reactive management drive to ‘outcomes-based management’ by instruments that generate proactive strategies for environmental
Author Listing: Hugh Lavery;Helen Ross;Claudia Baldwin
Volume: 26
Pages: 105 - 111
DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2019.1632586
Language: English
Journal: Australasian Journal of Environmental Management

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management

AUSTRALAS J ENV MAN

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