‘This is not nature restoration, this is a technical installation’: nature values of disrupted and restored wetlands

Sanne Bech Holmgaard

Landscape Research, 2025, vol. 50, issue 5, 889-904

Abstract: Ecosystem restoration promises to counter and even reverse the negative impacts of anthropogenic environmental change to meet current as well as future challenges and human needs. At the same time, restoration projects happen in landscapes of already ongoing processes of change and disruption, with long temporal frames of human-land entanglements and histories. This study investigates a previously drained agricultural landscape in Denmark which was recently restored to wetland. This restored wetland is valued through the restoration project as a landscape of ecosystem function, preventing harmful nutrients from entering waterbodies and coastal areas. At the same time, for people living in this landscape, it represents memories, livelihoods and human-land entanglements through time. The restoration project has not returned the wetland to a pre-disruption state but created a new anthropogenic landscape with different affordances and opportunities, manifesting persisting instrumental values of human use as well as new relationships of care.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2024.2430698

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