Nature and Culture: The Journey Continues
August 29, 2017
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What are the best ways to identify and conserve rural landscapes? Since 2012, participants at a series of international meetings have sought to answer this complex question, in part through the development of a new set of shared general principles.
Private philanthropy has long played a critical role in supporting landscape conservation. To learn more about the future of the field, the Living Landscape Observer recently spoke with Jessica Brown, Executive Director of the New England Biolabs Foundation and Member, IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas and ICOMOS/IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes. Brown co-organized a session at the ICOMOS General Assembly on “Reimagining Philanthropy: Supporting the Integration of Culture and Nature.” In this excerpt from the interview (part 1 in a series of excerpts), we explore the session’s inspiration, key takeaways, and reflections on the evolution of philanthropy in conservation.
In March 2020, when the worldwide pandemic brought the ICOMOS General Assembly scheduled for the fall of that year in Sydney, Australia, to a halt, planning for the event had already been quite advanced. In the face of global uncertainty, the host Australia ICOMOS and its many partners made the decision to hold the conference in 2023 – and what an event it was! The almost 7 years of planning paid off. With the theme “Heritage Changes: Resilience – Responsibility – Rights – Relationships.
Join us on July 19, 2023, from 11am – 11:45am ET for a webinar highlighting one of the world’s most innovative approaches to landscape conservation – the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) program.
Recent writing and research shows the contribution that rural and traditional working landscapes can make to landscape resilience, sustainability, and ecological diversity, which in turn can play a part in combatting climate change. The scale of these landscapes has also been a driver of the need to integrate the management of nature and culture. What has been less discussed are the contributions of cultural values to the conservation of rural landscapes. For example, the World Heritage criteria that most directly applies to working landscapes states that cultural landscapes are sites where the interaction between people and their environment is considered to be of outstanding universal value. A closer examination of the people part of the equation is warranted.
What are the best ways to identify and conserve rural landscapes? Since 2012, participants at a series of international meetings have sought to answer this complex question, in part through the development of a new set of shared general principles.
Private philanthropy has long played a critical role in supporting landscape conservation. To learn more about the future of the field, the Living Landscape Observer recently spoke with Jessica Brown, Executive Director of the New England Biolabs Foundation and Member, IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas and ICOMOS/IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes. Brown co-organized a session at the ICOMOS General Assembly on “Reimagining Philanthropy: Supporting the Integration of Culture and Nature.” In this excerpt from the interview (part 1 in a series of excerpts), we explore the session’s inspiration, key takeaways, and reflections on the evolution of philanthropy in conservation.
In March 2020, when the worldwide pandemic brought the ICOMOS General Assembly scheduled for the fall of that year in Sydney, Australia, to a halt, planning for the event had already been quite advanced. In the face of global uncertainty, the host Australia ICOMOS and its many partners made the decision to hold the conference in 2023 – and what an event it was! The almost 7 years of planning paid off. With the theme “Heritage Changes: Resilience – Responsibility – Rights – Relationships.
Join us on July 19, 2023, from 11am – 11:45am ET for a webinar highlighting one of the world’s most innovative approaches to landscape conservation – the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) program.
Recent writing and research shows the contribution that rural and traditional working landscapes can make to landscape resilience, sustainability, and ecological diversity, which in turn can play a part in combatting climate change. The scale of these landscapes has also been a driver of the need to integrate the management of nature and culture. What has been less discussed are the contributions of cultural values to the conservation of rural landscapes. For example, the World Heritage criteria that most directly applies to working landscapes states that cultural landscapes are sites where the interaction between people and their environment is considered to be of outstanding universal value. A closer examination of the people part of the equation is warranted.