Subtitle: Coverging Views from Ecology, Planning and History
The integration of 'planning and doing' or 'research and practice' in the landscapes has been ongoing area of interest for Australian Landscape Management. This interesting piece by Alice E. Ingerson of the Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies brings together ideas from 'adaptive management', 'reflective practice', and 'public history'.
The ideas behind 'adaptive management', in which management is seen as a series of experiments where surprises or failures are highly valued because they help to create new knowledge, seems particularly relevant to landscape management today.
