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Cultural landscapes : a bridge between culture and nature?

journal contribution
posted on 2011-11-01, 00:00 authored by K Taylor, Jane Louise Lennon
Cultural landscapes are intended to increase awareness that heritage places (sites) are not isolated islands and that there is an interdependence of people, social structures, and the landscape and associated ecological systems. The paper explores whether the recognition of the 1992 World Heritage Cultural Landscape categories, the IUCN Protected Landscapes and the 2005 merging of cultural and natural criteria for World Heritage purposes have been effective in bridging the gap between culture and nature philosophically and in practice. With particular reference to opportunities presented in the Asia-Pacific region, where traditionally culture and nature are not regarded as separate, people are part of nature, the paper will further critically review the nature–culture link and its implications for North American-style national parks where cultural associations may not be seen to be necessary or even desirable. It suggests the imperative of highlighting and respecting in heritage nominations and inscriptions deep cultural associations of traditional communities with natural sites and implications for management to protect cultural and biological diversity and the need for thematic studies.

History

Journal

International journal of heritage studies

Volume

17

Issue

6

Season

Special issue : conserving biocultural diversity on a landscape scale : the roles of local, national and international designations

Pagination

537 - 554

Publisher

Routledge

Location

United Kingdom

ISSN

1352-7258

eISSN

1470-3610

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2011, Taylor & Francis