Adam Guy (University College London,
UK)
Engaging the public with landscape
scale conservation
Adam Guy’s paper illustrates some misconceptions associated with
peri-urban spaces by considering the land along the Tidal Thames Estuary.
Territory, both terrestrial and marine, marked as empty on most maps, is
actually an intensively contested landscape under pressure from competing
claimants. In an economic and political climate where government
increasingly delegates conservation decisions to governance partnerships,
informing the public about longer-term policy options becomes crucial.
The Thames Estuary Partnership (TEP) approach is to take the public out
into the field to celebrate often-overlooked landscapes, and discuss concepts
and challenges in situ. The paper discusses emerging practices of
landscape-scale stewardship, and ways to involve the public in future planning
and development.
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