TY - JOUR
T1 - From pits and piles to lakes and landscapes
T2 - Rebuilding Minnesota's industrial landscape using a transdisciplinary approach
AU - Christine carlson, M.
AU - Koepke, John A
AU - Hanson, Mirja P.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The Laurentian Vision Partnership is a collaborative planning and design initiative that explores local and regional redevelopment opportunities for depleted iron ore mine lands on Minnesota's Mesabi iron range. The initiative involves an ad hoc coalition of local, regional, and state representatives from industry, business, communities, education, and government dedicated to advancing the long-term vitality of the region. The initiative is also a land-based case study in the development of transdisciplinary action research. The initiative has employed participatory design tools to promote and maintain collaboration, discourse, and knowledge building across diverse knowledge bases, within a land design framework that considers how changes in active mining processes can regenerate the region's future ecological and economic environment. This paper outlines the initiative and its projects and methods. It reflects on the partnership's results and challenges through a review of project documentation, capacity building case studies, and the authors' professional practice in regional landscape planning, site design, and participatory decision making, as managing members of the partnership since 1999.
AB - The Laurentian Vision Partnership is a collaborative planning and design initiative that explores local and regional redevelopment opportunities for depleted iron ore mine lands on Minnesota's Mesabi iron range. The initiative involves an ad hoc coalition of local, regional, and state representatives from industry, business, communities, education, and government dedicated to advancing the long-term vitality of the region. The initiative is also a land-based case study in the development of transdisciplinary action research. The initiative has employed participatory design tools to promote and maintain collaboration, discourse, and knowledge building across diverse knowledge bases, within a land design framework that considers how changes in active mining processes can regenerate the region's future ecological and economic environment. This paper outlines the initiative and its projects and methods. It reflects on the partnership's results and challenges through a review of project documentation, capacity building case studies, and the authors' professional practice in regional landscape planning, site design, and participatory decision making, as managing members of the partnership since 1999.
KW - Interdisciplinary collaboration
KW - Land forming
KW - Mineland reclamation
KW - Multi-objective mine land planning
KW - Non-traditional partnerships
KW - Participatory decision-making
KW - Transdisciplinary practice
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U2 - 10.3368/lj.30.1.35
DO - 10.3368/lj.30.1.35
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79251623695
SN - 0277-2426
VL - 30
SP - 35
EP - 52
JO - Landscape Journal
JF - Landscape Journal
IS - 1
ER -