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Slow ecology: Local knowledge and natural restoration on the lower Danube

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  • Stelu Åžerban

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In the first half of the 2000s, one project to restore the former Danube floodplain was carried out in Belene, a marginal town on the Bulgarian Danube. The aim of this article is to record the practices that were already in place before the interventions on the Danube, as part of a heterogeneous local knowledge that had an alternative vision to the scientific knowledge of experts involved in the restoration project. The data comes from qualitative interviews with locals and experts implicated in this project, as well as ethnographic observations from the fieldwork I carried out in 2013–2014, 2020 and 2022. The conclusion is that without attempting to replace the scientific knowledge, the locals aim to impose, through their local knowledge, a sort of slow ecology that eases the pace of the restoration of the former Danube floodplains.

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  • Stelu Åžerban, 2024. "Slow ecology: Local knowledge and natural restoration on the lower Danube," Environmental Values, , vol. 33(3), pages 258-278, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envval:v:33:y:2024:i:3:p:258-278
    DOI: 10.1177/09632719231170511
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