Concepts of integraged conservation as inroads to sustainable management landscapes

Abstract

The concept of integrated conservation rests in the 1970s’ increased understanding of the importance of historical environments as resources in urban and land-use planning, rather than delimiting theme as a secondary issue in societal development. Sir Bernard Feilden defined the concept in 1986 as the dynamic management of change in order to reduce the rate of decay. Apart from more or less nature-given external and internal causes of decay, the most troublesome are the manmade causes such as fashion, wars, pollution, and not the least – stupidity. These factors drive landscape change, but other important factors also include, for example, technology development, market dynamics, urbanisation, ‘silo planning’, or policy interventions. Integrated conservation relates to notions of heritage and the lecture will discuss heritage research and operative practices and the relation between top-down and bottom-up processes. One significant question is whether it is possible to define a governance structure providing stewardship to operate managerial routines.