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Chalk Downs

In: Landscape History and Rural Society in Southern England

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  • Eric L. Jones

    (University of Buckingham)

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The character of the landscape is extremely contingent; agricultural use fluctuates in the long-run according to price regime. Observations of apparently ancient chalk grassland, such as Danebury Down in Hampshire, illustrate the point. This habitat was dynamic, not fixed and ‘original’ in the way conservationists supposed. Chalk downs still unploughed in the 1950s were the residue of the decline of nineteenth-century sheep husbandry (this is described), coupled with the shock of the myxomatosis epidemic which almost eliminated rabbit grazing. The choice of landscape facets to conserve depends not on science but on value judgements about preferences for the wildlife of either grassland or arable environments

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  • Eric L. Jones, 2021. "Chalk Downs," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Landscape History and Rural Society in Southern England, chapter 0, pages 47-58, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-68616-1_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68616-1_5
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