For decades mainstream management of nature has been target-oriented and based on the stewardship approach implying that humans intervene even in areas where natural ecosystems are in focus. Nature management has implied preference for specific species, mimicking extensive agricultural systems, focusing on target ecosystems or assemblages of species.
Novel nature skips the stewardship approach. Novel nature rests on the idea that nature finds a way, that no species or system has specific value over others. Novel nature accepts the impact of Anthropocene, i.e. the exchange of species, the influence of farming and forestry, but sets the natural development off the leash. Novel nature does not accept stewardship.
Novel nature enhances the free flow of genes and the free development of new systems – as nature did before humans. Nature doesn’t care.
→ Forest in free development
For decades mainstream management of nature has been target-oriented and based on the stewardship approach implying that humans intervene even in areas where natural ecosystems are in focus. Nature management has implied preference for specific species, mimicking extensive agricultural systems, focusing on target ecosystems or assemblages of species.
Novel nature skips the stewardship approach. Novel nature rests on the idea that nature finds a way, that no species or system has specific value over others. Novel nature accepts the impact of Anthropocene, i.e. the exchange of species, the influence of farming and forestry, but sets the natural development off the leash. Novel nature does not accept stewardship.
Novel nature enhances the free flow of genes and the free development of new systems – as nature did before humans. Nature doesn’t care.
→ Forest in free development