Newspaper Archive

July 2008 Issue

The world’s cultural landscapes face a significant loss of detail and traditional skills unless they are properly managed, delegates were told at a major two-day conference at the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside campus. The event, ‘Cultural Landscape Management’, was organised by the UK Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS-UK) in collaboration with the Landscape Institute and the University of Cumbria. In the opening address, Paul Walshe from the ICOMOS-UK Cultural Landscape and Historic Gardens Committee explained how the idea of every landscape being of value underpins the European Landscape Convention. “All landscapes are cultural landscapes, as man has shaped even supposedly ‘natural’ ones,” he said. This idea is reflected, he added, in the ICOMOS definition of cultural landscapes as “the result of the interaction between man and place, and man and nature over time”.

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