Integrating Natural Resource Management and Indigenous Cultural Heritage

Abstract

This paper outlines an effective approach for the protection and control of cultural heritage places and landscapes that integrates customary protocols, community-driven initiatives, landscape management, and progressive intellectual property protocols. These components must work together to ensure effective cultural heritage management practice within a natural resource management context. This approach provides clear social, cultural, and environmental outcomes, and provides a platform for economic and social sustainability at the community level. A modeled approach is discussed using case studies of implemented as part of the “Restoring Connections Project.”