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Nature-based infrastructure (NBI) ties together ecology and
planning. It is significant as an innovation and because it potentiates new and
different human-environment relations. Drawing upon recent anthropological efforts
to explore multispecies entanglements, this thesis considers the NBI work of the
Massachusetts Oyster Project. It examines the ecological communities the
organization joins ... read morein its efforts to restore the Eastern oyster, and it evaluates
those relationships as indicators of potential shifts in state environmental
policy. This thesis also elaborates multispecies planning as a concept. It
incorporates evidence from ethnography, environmental science, philosophy, and
political theory, and finds that the framework offers planners two lessons. First,
it is now necessary to attend to many forms of knowledge in the planning process,
not all of which are human. Second, entertaining such findings points to new ways
of reasoning environmental matters of concern. Both lessons are given in the
example of Massachusetts state shellfish policy.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2019.
Submitted to the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and
Planning.
Advisor: Ann Rappaport.
Committee: Kristin Skrabut.
Keywords: Climate change, Cultural anthropology, and Public
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