The place of archaeology in integrated cultural landscape management

Tom Moore,Jesús Álvarez Sanchís,Vincent Guichard

doi:10.5117/jel.2020.1.47039

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Abstract

Across Europe, landscape is recognised as a frame through which societal values are defined and embedded. The European Landscape convention and wider research has drawn attention to the need for integrating a diverse range of stakeholders to ensure landscape sustainability. Archaeology is increasingly recognised as having an important place in integrated landscape management but often remains relatively peripheral. This paper examines the place of archaeology in specific European regions and the potential ways of integrating archaeological heritage in landscape management. Emerging from a project funded by the Joint Programme Initiative on Cultural Heritage (Resituating Europe’s FIrst Towns (REFIT): A case study in enhancing knowledge transfer and developing sustainable management of cultural landscapes), we explore the place of a set of common European heritage assets, Iron Age oppida, in the management of the landscape they are a part of and how they might be used better to engage and connect stakeholders. Using four case studies, we review the present integration of archaeology within landscape management and how this operates at a local level. From this we explore what challenges these case-studies present and outline ways in which the REFIT project has sought to develop strategies to respond to these in order to enhance and promote co-productive management of these landscapes.

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Across Europe, landscape is recognised as a frame through which societal values are defined and embedded.[1]
Developing from these concerns, this paper examines the place of archaeology in specific European environments and the potential ways of integrating archaeological heritage in landscape management
Our work on oppida is seeking to focus less on disseminating knowledge from heritage stakeholders but to facilitate the possibility of developing new “bottom-up” approaches in these landscapes based on the highlighting their singularities. All of these approaches use the presence of the oppida to create forums, acting as hubs of discussion, but recognising the need to engage stakeholders through media that resonate with them and via forms of heritage that connects multiple stakeholders allowing the exploration of wider landscape concerns

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Introduction

Across Europe, landscape is recognised as a frame through which societal values are defined and embedded.[1]. The policy of the Grands Sites de France, initiated in 2002, encourages local authorities to take charge of the sustainable management of landscape areas of high value and to experiment with methods of integrated management.[92] This policy is an example of the reflections taking place within the Ministry of the Environment regarding the notion of landscape as a lever to develop sustainable regional projects, both to mobilize all stakeholders through their interest in their lived environment, and to develop territorial projects through the transversality that reflection on the future of landscape requires (e.g. the Paysages Territoires Transitions research-action in which Bibracte is involved).

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