Landscape Futures and the Challenge of Change: Towards Integrated Cultural/Natural Heritage Decision Making

景观的未来和变革的挑战：迈向综合文化/自然遗产决策

基本信息

批准号：
AH/T012196/1
负责人：
Caitlin DeSilvey
金额：
$ 10.27万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT012196%2F1
关键词：
Landscape Futures Challenge Change Towards

项目摘要

In coming decades, the need to adapt to and mitigate accelerated environmental change will require heritage and landscape managers to make difficult decisions about how to manage assets and allocate resources. The assertion that heritage assets are irreplaceable and that heritage is a 'non-renewable resource' has underpinned a commitment by the heritage sector to protect assets from cultural and biophysical processes that may cause damage or loss of historic fabric. UK and international heritage stakeholders now appreciate that, in some contexts, promises of continued protection may be unsustainable. The sector is beginning to consider how to respond when change is inevitable, or when conservation at current levels is not feasible. New strategies are required for sensitive, proactive management of heritage transformations, particularly in vulnerable coastal landscapes and for assets already in an advanced state of decline. The Landscape Futures and the Challenge of Change project (LFCC) responds directly to the challenge that accelerated climate change poses for the natural and cultural heritage sector. It draws on the AHRC-funded Heritage Futures research programme's innovative approaches to cross-sectoral knowledge exchange, and on programme findings which identified barriers to the effective management of change. Heritage Futures research also found, however, that shifting attention from the 'loss' of discrete heritage assets to focus on their broader landscape context may be a way to encourage more creative and confident decision making. Emphasis on the risk posed to an individual asset or feature can block the ability to see patterns of change in a wider context, and in wider temporal scales. A landscape approach, which understands cultural heritage assets as part of continually changing ecological and geophysical systems, has a key part to play in supporting a transition to more integrated and adaptive management of heritage and land assets. The project aims to apply these findings and approaches to the development of a new decision support framework for cultural and natural heritage conservation management planning in the UK. Working collaboratively with the National Trust, Historic England and Natural England (and in consultation with a wider network of practitioners) the framework will deliver three key outcomes for landscape and heritage managers: (1) consistency in interpretation of relevant regulations and guidance, (2) confidence in making the decision to manage for change, and (3) capability in devolving decision making to local managers and inspectors. The project will develop and disseminate a new model for heritage decision making and resource the UK heritage sector to engage with long term thinking and respond to challenges more effectively and creatively. In doing so, it will show how the research undertaken as part of the Heritage Futures research programme is directly applicable to a specific set of practical problems for the sector. The project will have wide reaching significance for natural and cultural heritage research, policy-making and practice in the UK and internationally, by developing an approach that supports decision making for thriving cultural-ecological landscapes, where human and natural histories are understood as conjoined and complementary.

未来几十年，为了适应和缓解加速的环境变化，遗产和景观管理者需要就如何管理资产和分配资源做出艰难的决定。遗产资产不可替代且遗产是“不可再生资源”的主张支撑了遗产部门保护资产免受可能导致历史结构损坏或损失的文化和生物物理过程影响的承诺。英国和国际遗产利益相关者现在认识到，在某些情况下，持续保护的承诺可能是不可持续的。该部门开始考虑当变化不可避免或当前水平的保护不可行时如何应对。需要新的战略来对遗产转型进行敏感、主动的管理，特别是在脆弱的沿海景观和已经处于严重衰退状态的资产中。景观未来和变化挑战项目（LFCC）直接应对气候变化加速给自然和文化遗产部门带来的挑战。它借鉴了 AHRC 资助的遗产未来研究项目的跨部门知识交流创新方法，以及确定有效变革管理障碍的项目研究结果。然而，遗产未来研究还发现，将注意力从离散遗产资产的“损失”转移到更广泛的景观背景可能是鼓励更具创造性和自信决策的一种方式。强调对单个资产或功能带来的风险可能会阻碍在更广泛的背景和更广泛的时间范围内看到变化模式的能力。景观方法将文化遗产资产理解为不断变化的生态和地球物理系统的一部分，在支持向更加综合和适应性的遗产和土地资产管理过渡方面发挥着关键作用。该项目旨在将这些发现和方法应用于英国文化和自然遗产保护管理规划的新决策支持框架的开发。该框架与国家信托、历史英格兰和自然英格兰合作（并与更广泛的从业者网络协商）将为景观和遗产管理者带来三个关键成果：(1) 相关法规和指南解释的一致性，(2 ) 对做出变革管理决策的信心，以及 (3) 将决策权下放给当地经理和检查员的能力。该项目将开发和传播一种新的遗产决策模式，并为英国遗产部门提供资源，以进行长期思考并更有效和创造性地应对挑战。在此过程中，它将展示作为遗产未来研究计划一部分进行的研究如何直接应用于该行业的一系列具体实际问题。该项目将对英国和国际上的自然和文化遗产研究、政策制定和实践产生广泛的影响，通过开发一种支持繁荣文化生态景观决策的方法，其中人类和自然历史被理解为相互关联和相互关联的。补充。