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A Heritage
Assets Management Network
'BAYWATCH' is a recess
off the academic high road for unloading and picking
up new ideas about education for sustainability. In
particular, it is a notebook for spreading ideas and
know-how about conservation management in the broad
arena of cultural heritage.
It consists of a provisional
collection of web pages and links to other sites. The
pages, in various stages of development, present novel
ways of systems thinking about planning by operational
objective. They are directed towards the management of rural
and urban heritage assets.
At
the moment the material has been categorised in two
sections: 'management' and 'education'. Pages
in the management section are directed towards information
about nature conservation management in its professional
dimension. Pages in the education section are
more concerned with new ideas about packaging informaton
about heritage assets as models for environmental education.
However, the division is not hard and fast.
As a parking bay for
new ideas, the web site also includes models for education/training
that illustrate the use of goals- achievement
methods in the management of
green assets.
The aim is to spread
ideas, good practice and achievements, and promote the
development of models for seamless 'strategy to operations' management systems. Together with complementary
resources for environmental education, these are, focused
on action plans that apply scientific values of biodiversity
to target sustainable development.
Cultural values of environment
are increasingly being incorporated into management
targets. For example, a view of 'faith in conservation'
highlights the realm of art, myths, symbols, stories
and legends to help value biodiversity as cultural heritage
and our place in creation. The embryonic subject of
cultural ecology is a blend of notional and scientific ideas
about this skein of life.
A managerial view of
conservation is part of education in ecological awareness
that leads to practical community programmes and initiatives.
Education in conservation management has to blend the
spiritual with scientific and technical operations in
order to engage all who feel passionate for caring for
the environment. To contemplate the outcomes of a targeted
conservation management plan at any level is a small
step away from an act of meditation on Creation.
Please send comments
and any documents and/or links to other sites to belprof@aol.com
BAYWATCH was initiated
by Cardiff Bay Development Corporation to help the coastal
communities of the City of Cardiff to participate in
local management plans for sustainable development
It is now a cooperative
project with a national perspective involving the Natural
Econmy Research Unit (editorial), Impact Trust Wales
the UK Conservation Management System Consortium and
the Schools in Communities Agenda 21 Network
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