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In the book review titled "Book review: Tim Edensor, Landscape, Materiality and Heritage: An Object Biography," Nadia Bartolini discusses Tim Edensor's exploration of landscape, materiality, and heritage through the lens of the Barochan Cross. The cross, located in Scotland, holds personal significance for Edensor and serves as a catalyst for uncovering its life story. Edensor emphasizes that the cross has multiple stories and meanings, and he employs relational networks and assemblage theory to capture its complexity. The book delves into the cross's relationship with different landscapes and explores themes of heritage, authenticity, conservation, nationalism, and identity. Overall, Bartolini finds Edensor's account of the Barochan Cross to be captivating and inspiring, potentially motivating readers to explore the landscape and imagine alternative futures inspired by the cross. [Extracted from the article]

This review considers how rapid environmental change, generated through both inhuman natural forces and human-induced impacts, affects landscape futures and decision-making processes. To do this, we start by defining 'futures', and, more specifically, the different kinds of futures at stake in changing landscapes. We discuss how rapid environmental change not only puts immediate pressure on identifying alternative futures for landscapes, but also threatens to unsettle patterns of attachment to the landscape. We then explore different ways of managing tensions and consider strategies that have been used for breaking down binary divisions that may stymie informed and integrated decision-making. We conclude by adapting a five-point framework that incorporates uncertainty and environmental change when making decisions about landscape futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper builds on work about rewilding and human–animal relations by focusing inquiry on Portugal's Côa Valley, where a concentration of prehistoric rock art animal figures shares a landscape with a rewilding pilot which seeks to re‐establish a population of wild horses. In response to recent geographical debates, the paper offers a sustained, situated analysis of the temporalities of rewilding and related claims to non‐human autonomy. In the Côa Valley, ancient images of animal others are enrolled in efforts to return "wild" horses to the landscape, but conceptions of wildness and domesticity, and autonomy and temporality, remain fluid and unfixed – even as they are implicated in the production of bounded spaces and invoked in present‐day management imperatives. To conclude, we argue for an appreciation of degrees of animal autonomy in rewilding contexts, moving beyond the binaries that often seem to be the focus of rewilding debates. Understanding of these degrees of autonomy, we argue, must be grounded in histories of landscape co‐habitation and co‐production, and consider the intersection of past cultural tradition and conceptions of desired future natures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]