During the 18th and 19th centuries, Cornwall, UK, produced over half the world’s copper and tin, predominantly from deep, wet, hard rock mines. The technology, techniques and know-how which was developed to win such ores was taken around the world during the diasporas...
Today Future Terrains launches its first awareness-raising campaign. We are calling it #MineClosurePerspectives and it considers the issues of mine closure and mining legacies through the lens of photography. It hopes to broaden perspectives among mining stakeholders...
As outlined elsewhere on this website Future Terrains exists to tackle the challenge of degraded lands by enhancing environmental and social performance and promoting landscape restoration. One of half this mission statement explicitly focuses on ‘landscape...
I have established Future Terrains, unashamedly, as a social enterprise – with the aim of making a difference while making a living. According to Social Enterprise UK, ‘social enterprises are using business to tackle social problems, improve communities, improve...
Future Terrains germinated somewhere between mountaintop removal coal mines in America’s Appalachia and ‘farmlandscape’ restoration in Patagonia’s windswept southern wilderness, by way of Everglades ecosystem revival – Costa Rican dry tropical forest...
