Context

Landscape Management of Marginal Land
24th - 26th April, 2002

Course Organisers:

Twm Elias, Senior Lecturer, Plas Tan y Bwlch, David Gwyn, Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, Judith Alfrey, CADW.

Course Aims:

To give practitioners in a range of planning and conservation fields and introduction to the development of historic landscapes, with a view to providing a deeper insight and a broader perspective within which sustainable landscape conservation strategies can be evolved.

Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

• Take an integrated view of the particular problems of rural resource management posed by the proto-industrial marginal landscapes which are a feature of much of Britain's highland zone and of Wales in particular.
  
  
• Discuss the social and economic pressures which brought these landscapes into being and which are affecting their current and potential future development.
  
  
• Discuss the requirements for setting up and implementing sustainable conservation strategies.
  
  
• Become more aware of various frameworks, statutory and non-statutory for conserving historic landscapes and important biological habitats within them.
  
  
• Exchange ideas and make useful professional contacts.

Target Participants:

Staff from a range of organisation including The Statutory, Local Authority and Voluntary Sectors, especially those with responsibilities affecting the management of landscapes.

Plas Tan y Bwlch occupies a superb position overlooking the valley of the river Dwyryd in the heart of the Snowdonia National Park. Within easy reach are examples of mountain, moorland, wetland, estuarine and aquatic habitats, upland and lowland farmland, a range of woodland types and the cliffs and beaches and dunes of the coastal zone. This incomparable range of habitats provides the setting for many aspects of the Centre's professional training programme.

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