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woodlands
ethnography
climate change
infrastructures
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Abstract
Based on an interest in new forest management initiatives in response to forest fires and climate change in the Vall de Lord (Catalan Pre-Pyrenees, Spain), I analyze and contextualize how the forest can be considered an infrastructure for redesigning and controlling the landscape. The article begins by describing some ideas that are currently influencing nature management: the forest as an infrastructure and the risk of sixth-generation forest fires. I then relate these ideas to my ethnographic fieldwork to discuss the views of three entities (the Vall de Lord Forestry Association, the multinational company Knauf and the Centre for Forest Ownership) through three aspects: biomass energy, nature restoration and the labor question. I conclude that new forms of landscape management are fundamental for understanding the renewal of capital accumulation processes, the presence of relevant aspects beyond climate change and sustainable forest management that need to be taken into account for a more equitable nature restoration that takes into account local practices of landscape maintenance.
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