The Tasman Peninsula Landscape Development Manual: local and wider ramifications

Abstract

Tasman Peninsula's landscape, it is argued, is not only neglected but also a repository of historically significant evidence that has largely failed to achieve recognition. Examples of local landscape damage point to fundamental difficulties in heritage protection which have not been met by the conferring of National Estate status on Tasman Peninsula. The methods and results , to date, of a research programme aimed at directing attention to the landscape protection needs of Tasman Peninsula are explained, with particular reference to the realisation of the National Estate idea and to an application of the concept of cultural landscape conservation.