Protected landscapes
specialists from around the world
Photo: Greig Cranna, QLF |
An International Working Session
The Conservation Study Institute and QLF/Atlantic Center for
the Environment convened a working session in partnership with
the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) World Commission on Protected
Areas in June 1999. The purpose of the session was to discuss
new directions and share international experience and innovations
for protecting landscapes with natural and cultural value around
the world. This protection would be linked to sustainable development
and would involve local people in the stewardship of these special
places.
Twenty-two landscape conservationists participated, representing
an international mix of approaches and issues. Case studies
were presented from places as diverse as Andean South America,
Oceania, the Eastern Caribbean, Europe, and northeastern North
America. The meeting was hosted by the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
National Historical Park in Woodstock, Vermont, and co-sponsored
by the George Wright Society, the International Centre for Protected
Landscapes, and the United States Committee of the International
Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS).
The Institute has published the proceedings from the working
session. Landscape
Conservation: An International Working Session on the Stewardship
of Protected Landscapes, Conservation and Stewardship Publication
No. 1 (PDF format* - 1,563
KB)
The Institute has also published the proceedings from a related
public forum (below).
International
Concepts in Protected Landscapes: Exploring their Value for
Communities in the Northeast, Conservation and Stewardship
Publication No. 2 (PDF format*
- 620 KB)
 |
A Public Forum
Sixty conservation practitioners from across the northeastern
United States were joined in a public forum by 20 international
conservation professionals who had just concluded the two-day
working session described above. The forum, "Protecting
Working Landscapes: An International Perspective," explored
ways to conserve working landscapes--places where people live
and work. This new model of landscape conservation is becoming
increasingly relevant in a world where many stewardship challenges
are found close to home. The concept of Protected Landscape,
Category V in the IUCN system of management categories, provides
an approach for integrating biodiversity conservation, cultural
heritage protection, and sustainable use of resources while
providing a way to support leadership by local people in the
stewardship of these resources.
The public forum offered participants the chance to learn
about conservation work being done in other regions of the
world, to exchange ideas and lessons learned from their own
experience, and to renew their own commitment to the protection
of our natural and cultural heritage here in the northeastern
United States. For many participants engaged in stewardship
at the local and regional levels, this international viewpoint
offered a fresh perspective on their work.
*PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you do not have Acrobat installed on your system, you can
download
Acrobat Reader for free.
|
|
