Conservation Management at Norbury Park

These web pages are an experimental presentation of the datatabase of the conservation management system (CMS) for Norbury Park (Surrey County Council).

They have been formatted by the Natural Economy Research Unit from the management plan, 2000-2005 (known as the 'text plan'), which will be presented as a separate set of interactive web pages.

The aim is to devise and test a hypermedia format as a means of communicating information about the logic, knowledge structure and outcomes of conservation management as a comprehensive diagramatic system (defined here as the web Site Map).

The basic structure of the Norbury CMS, as is the case for all CMS's, is a nested hierarchy of information. The first layer presents the valued 'Features' of the site. Each feature is described in terms of the 'Objective': 'Rationale': 'Management Option': 'Management Factors (major issues that limit attainment of the management objective)': and 'Management Prescriptions'. Each Management Prescription contains one or more coded projects that define the operational resources and the scheduling required to manage a Factor on the ground. This collection of information is sometimes called the 'Action Plan'.

Below each feature is another layer in the information hierarchy that defines the 'Attributes' of the feature. Attributes are measurable characters of the feature chosen as performance indicators of the feature's Management Prescription . Each attribute is the focus of a monitoring project which marshals the resources necessary for its measurement. The idea of presenting the attributes in this way is to allow the practical outcomes of the CMS to be seen at a glance.

In this first web draft of the Norbury Site Plan a full set of this nested information structure is only included for the Semi-natural Woodland Feature (Feature 2).

Features

Issues

Background

Description

Management strategy

Management plan

Site Map