David Tulloch Department of Landscape Architecture Cook College
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to A Multidisciplinary Approach to Developing a Landscape Change Developing a Landscape Change
Research Agenda and Program Research Agenda and Program Through Research, Teaching, Through Research, Teaching,
and Outreachand Outreach
David TullochDavid TullochDepartment of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape ArchitectureCook CollegeCook CollegeRutgers, The State University of New JerseyRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Football Fields of Open Space
“New Jersey loses nearly 50 acres of land to development each day. In the time it takes to watch a football game, the equivalent of six football fields of forest, open space or wetlands is lost forever.”
-- New Jersey Governor James McGreevey
OutlineThinking Nationally
Rutgers’ Landscape Change Research Program
Challenges for CELA
It Is a Big ProblemIt Is a Big ProblemIt Requires Big SolutionsIt Requires Big Solutions
Looking at Change• How is landscape change occurring in
the landscape?• What are the causes and consequences
of that change?• How is it perceived?• What can we do about?• What should we do about it?
Looking at Policies• Do landscape and planning policies and
practices have the impacts that many believe they do?
• Are they having unintended or unnoticed impacts?
• What policies are being used? Where?
Responses to Landscape Change
A national (or international ) dialog is necessary to advance this effortSignificant support is needed to coordinate and accelerate research
Landscape Change Workshop
An NSF-sponsored workshop was held on “Landscape Change” in Jan 2001The workshop sought to develop a research agenda promoting landscape change workThe workshop was multidisciplinary with representatives from geography, landscape architecture, ecology, sociology, and planning
Workshop Focus• The workshop openly stated as a goal an interest in seeing a national center for landscape change research• Four distinct areas of emphasis emerged:– Information technology– Decision-making– Landscape perception and assessment– Environmental and social science
Workshop Outcomes• Final Report was published• Panels and papers have reflected the activities at the workshop• NSF has openly appealed for additional efforts• A White Paper has been written to promote these efforts– LAF White Paper on Landscape
Intervention– Treats NSF as a primary audience
It Is a Big ProblemIt Is a Big ProblemBut New Jersey Has a Corner on But New Jersey Has a Corner on the Marketthe Market
In New Jersey, the change we are most familiar with is land use change
Responses to Landscape Change
We have been leaders in measuring landscape change
MEASURING
We Live in a Changing Landscape
Every year New Jersey adds nearly 16,600 acres of new development while losing more than 9,600 acres of farmland, 4,200 acres of forest, and 2,600 acres of wetlands.
Recent Landscape
Changes in New Jersey
annual change in acres
daily change in acres
Urban 15,083 41.3Agriculture -9,654 -26.4Forest -4,249 -11.6Water 571 1.6Wetlands -2,642 -7.2Barren 889 2.4
Responses to Landscape Change
Making the decision makers and the public aware of issues is an important element in Rutgers’ landscape
change research
COMMUNICATION
Buildout - 2050
• New Jersey will, in all likelihood be the first state to reach complete build-out• A recent study by Rutgers suggested it could happen around 2050
Responses to Landscape Change
New Jersey has made land use a statewide political issue
POLITICAL/REGULATORY
Developing a Research Program
There are many questions to answer:What is being done at Cook and Rutgers that should be included?What themes will be featured in such a research program?How should it be organized and housed?
Developing a Research Program
There are many questions to answer:What opportunities exist for advancing this research program?What audience(s) should be targeted?
Creating Our Own AgendaRutgers approach has included participants from a variety of departments including:Landscape Architecture Environmental ScienceHuman EcologyGeographyEcology, Evolution and Nat. Res.Ag., Food, and Resource Econ.Extension – NJAESUrban Policy and Planning
Creating Our Own ApproachFour major efforts:• Internal meetings and establishment of consensus on a research agenda• Meetings with stakeholders from throughout New Jersey• Visits from nationally-notable speakers to present their work and review ours• Regularly submitting proposals to NSF and elsewhere that seek funding explicitly under the umbrella of landscape change
Landscape Brochure• How can you promote a research
program without a brochure?
Putting Landscape Change on the Web
• New Jersey’s Landscape Change– Mapping and monitoring change in New
Jersey– http://www.crssa.rutgers.edu/projects/lc/
• The Workshop on Landscape Change– More than a workshop, but not yet a new
movement– http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/landscape-2/
landscape.htm
It Is a Big ProblemIt Is a Big ProblemCELA Can HelpCELA Can Help
Do We Need This?• The NSF workshop used McHarg’s work
as a theme for discussing where we have gotten
• But how far have we advanced since that work?
• Could a research agenda really promote new advances in our understanding and practices?
• Is this just about money?
Challenges for CELA• Can CELA promote a research
agenda?– Who would they partner with?– What would it be about?– Could they really leave some research
out?• Is it an “agenda” if it includes everything?
“Watch Out! He’s Got an Agenda”
• We can (and should) bias this process• My Agenda:– I Want to Change the World
(Landscape Intervention)– More/Better Information Will Have an
Impact(GIS bias)
– Better Science and Information Get Us the Respect That We Need to Have an Impact
CELA Action Items?• Actively seek, solicit, identify, and support research agendas advancing the cause of multi-institutional scholarly work in landscape architecture• Aggressively pursue (lobby) financial support for the agenda(s) • Create an annual forum (a panel perhaps) for the discussion of new agendas
Getting In TouchDavid Tulloch, PhD Department of Landscape Architecture Cook College Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732.932.3611 [email protected] www.crssa.rutgers.edu/davet