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'If This Were to Be Lost': Relating Environmental Justice and an Ethic of Care in Everyday Shared Spaces

Holder, J; McGillivray, D; (2018) 'If This Were to Be Lost': Relating Environmental Justice and an Ethic of Care in Everyday Shared Spaces. SSRN Green open access

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Abstract

Law plays a vital role in the life and loss of open, green spaces, used, shared, and enjoyed on an everyday basis by local people. In this article, we adopt an analytical framework based on an ethic of care to critique the legal process of registering this type of land as a town or village green, using as an example a public inquiry into the registration as a green of ancient woodland on the outskirts of Sheffield, England. The main method is to analyse written and oral witness statements providing the foundation for claim making in this legal process. This makes clear the centrality of such places in many people’s everyday lives, giving rise to community-based, and forward-looking, interests. However, the prospective consequences of losing such highly valued areas are currently poorly acknowledged, and accounted, for in the registration process. This is a product of a legal test and legal framing reliant upon crude quantitative assessments of individuals’ use of shared land in the recent past. Having outlined this limitation of the town or village green designation, we evaluate the extent to which an ethic of care towards everyday shared spaces may be better acted upon and expressed via the more recently promulgated plan-making regime for designating land as ‘local green spaces’.

Type: Working / discussion paper
Title: 'If This Were to Be Lost': Relating Environmental Justice and an Ethic of Care in Everyday Shared Spaces
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3205109
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Local Green Spaces, Environmental Justice, Knowledge Claims, Ethic of Care
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10075180
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