Linescapes: Remapping and Reconnecting Britain's Fragmented by Hugh Warwick PDF

By Hugh Warwick

‘This is a superbly crafted booklet . . . well timed and crucial analyzing’ Kathy Willis, Director of technology, Kew Gardens

It is uncommon to discover a panorama untouched via our lines – the hedges, partitions, ditches and dykes equipped to surround and separate; and the fairway lanes, roads, canals, railways and tool strains, designed to attach. This titanic community of traces has reworked our landscape.

In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological results of the traces we've got drawn: as our lives and our land have been being fenced in and threaded jointly, so natural world habitats were reduce into ever smaller, and more and more unviable, fragments.

Hugh Warwick has travelled around the nation to discover this linescape from the viewpoint of our flora and fauna and to appreciate how, with a manifesto for reconnection, we will aid our natural world to flourish.

Linescapes deals a clean and bracing standpoint on Britain’s geographical region, person who proposes a problem and offers flooring for hope; for whereas nature doesn't are inclined to instantly traces and discrete borders, our strains can and do comprise a true strength for wildness and for wildlife.

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