A conservation management curriculum is being created by the UK Conservation Management Consortium in collaboration with the
National Museum of Wales and a group of
British Universities using the CMSC's conservation management planning and recording software
(CMSi) for practical work in applied ecology.
The pages of this web site provide and introduction to
planning and ten mind maps which provide system-thinking templates for applications of the logic of conservation
management to conserve community/neighbourhood capital for a sustainable future.
Linking social and environmental policy
through conservation management is necessary for two reasons.
Firstly, to ensure we genuinely tackle the root causes of
ill-health, poverty and disadvantage. Secondly, to deliver
significant economic and social dividends in the form of jobs,
economic progress and stronger communities.
Natural capital – any stock of natural assets that yields a
flow of valuable goods and services into the future. The total stock
of environmental assets which make up natural capital may be divided
into three categories; non-renewable resources, the finite capacity
of natural systems to produce "renewable resources" and the capacity
of natural systems to absorb our emissions without side effects.
Physical capital – the stock of material resources such as
equipment, buildings, machinery and other infrastructure that can be
used to produce a flow of future income.
Economic capital – refers to the way we allocate resources and
make decisions about our material lives.
Human capital – is the "knowledge,
skills, competencies and other attributes embodied in individuals
that facilitate the creation of personal, social and economic
well-being". Human capital is formed consciously through education
and training and subconsciously through experience.
Social capital – is "the relationships, networks and norms
that facilitate collective action", or the shared knowledge,
understandings and patterns of interactions that a group of people
bring to any productive activity.
Cultural capital – is the product of
shared experience through traditions, customs, heritage, identity
and history.
"A
conservation management curriculum is needed for living sustainably
as an expression of cultural ecology, which combines knowledge about
natural resources and human resources within political economy to
control the conservation of resources and establish cultures of
stability".
A click on pictorial version of
the above statement is available.
A more comprehensive
mind map is in progress.
For further
information contact Denis Bellamy
belprof@aol.com
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