Managing Sustainable Use on Community Conservation Lands
Presentation Abstract
This workshop is designed to assist communities and resource managers in the evaluation of planning processes, to design site specific tools to ensure that planning use designs integrate considerations for sustainability. The emphasis is on what actions can be taken to ensure that visitor use on conservation lands sustain or enhance the ecology, economy, local aesthetic, history, and sense of place of the resource. A brief background of planning for sustainability will set the stage for contemporary application.
The workshop will share models of visitor management that have been developed and implemented by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, international tourism boards, and by the National Geographic Society, with links to web-based systems that integrate local knowledge and authenticity of place.
Participants will hear of community engagement events that demonstrate the practice of integrating the 4 pillars of sustainability, the quadruple bottom line: social values, environmental values, economic values, and future generation needs. Discussions will include considerations for the balance of local v. promoted visitor use on natural and cultural heritage landscapes.
In 2014 San Juan County became the first in the United States to self-identify as a Leave No Trace county, integrating principals of conservation, protection and restoration to all visitor designs. This came about through an education initiative of the San Juan Islands Terrestrial Managers Group, hosts of this workshop. Partners of this group and Canadian colleagues will share examples of programs that have occurred in the islands with these goals in mind.
The final component of the workshop will be the crafting of a hypothetical sustainability measurement tool that can be used to facilitate consensus building to planning processes. Participants will reflect on values and concepts that resonate for their regions, and integrate reflection of future needs for best outcomes.
Session Title
Decision support tools to support adaptive management of Salish Sea restoration efforts, General protection, remediation and restoration topics, Integrating Social Science into Ecosystem-Based Management, Moving beyond education and outreach to behavior change, Successful Partnership Building in the Salish Sea: Combining Resources for Larger Impacts in Restoration
Conference Track
Protection, Remediation and Restoration
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2016 : Vancouver, B.C.)
Document Type
Event
Start Date
2016 12:00 AM
End Date
2016 12:00 AM
Type of Presentation
Oral
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Sustainability; Sustainable development; Environmental protection
Geographic Coverage
Northwest, Pacific
Rights
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Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Managing Sustainable Use on Community Conservation Lands
This workshop is designed to assist communities and resource managers in the evaluation of planning processes, to design site specific tools to ensure that planning use designs integrate considerations for sustainability. The emphasis is on what actions can be taken to ensure that visitor use on conservation lands sustain or enhance the ecology, economy, local aesthetic, history, and sense of place of the resource. A brief background of planning for sustainability will set the stage for contemporary application.
The workshop will share models of visitor management that have been developed and implemented by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, international tourism boards, and by the National Geographic Society, with links to web-based systems that integrate local knowledge and authenticity of place.
Participants will hear of community engagement events that demonstrate the practice of integrating the 4 pillars of sustainability, the quadruple bottom line: social values, environmental values, economic values, and future generation needs. Discussions will include considerations for the balance of local v. promoted visitor use on natural and cultural heritage landscapes.
In 2014 San Juan County became the first in the United States to self-identify as a Leave No Trace county, integrating principals of conservation, protection and restoration to all visitor designs. This came about through an education initiative of the San Juan Islands Terrestrial Managers Group, hosts of this workshop. Partners of this group and Canadian colleagues will share examples of programs that have occurred in the islands with these goals in mind.
The final component of the workshop will be the crafting of a hypothetical sustainability measurement tool that can be used to facilitate consensus building to planning processes. Participants will reflect on values and concepts that resonate for their regions, and integrate reflection of future needs for best outcomes.
Comments
The Terrestrial Managers Group represents the collaboration of approximately 30 nonprofit and governmental land managers cooperating on resource management across jurisdictional boundaries to promote planning efficiencies, leverage individual efforts, address gaps in resource knowledge, and inspire a shared vision for local conservation lands.