Stonehenge from the A303 trunk road crossing
Salisbury Plain
The subject of
education for conservation is 'environmental cultural heritage' and
the management of:
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its integrity as a system;
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its accessibility through walking and
riding;
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its story as part of human
history;
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its evidence base through
research.
Environmental
cultural heritage is the legacy of human social development.
It is cultural property with the attributes of a group or society
from past generations, which is maintained in the present and
conserved and bestowed for the benefit of future generations.
Cultural environmental heritage includes icons of tangible culture,
such as buildings, monuments, habitats and landscapes imbued with
stories about the past which are embedded in folklore, traditions,
language, knowledge and ecosystems.. No society can flourish
without culture – and no development can be sustainable
without it. Environmental cultural heritage is part of a social
system of human development that holds answers to many of the
challenges societies face today. Awareness of this dynamic
connection between culture and development underscores the critical
importance of environmental cultural heritage — the living
cultural practices, expressions and knowledge systems linked with
the past that provide meaning to communities, that explain the
world and shape it.
Education For
Conservation (EFC) is a cross-curricular, interactive educational
programme. Its purpose is for learning about adaptive conservation
management systems for planning and recording actions to conserve
environmental cultural heritage. It is an aspect of
applied ecology developed to support the educational framework
ofcultural ecology.
The conceptual mind
map of 'integrated features planning' is presented as a tool kit
for evaluating the logic of plans for managing environmental
cultural heritage.