5.5 Management at the landscape level
Management of national parks on the ground is based on units often defined on the basis of accessibility. For cultural landscapes
in the Alps National Parks, consideration must be given to defining holistic landscape management units based on cultural
landscape patterns. This will help to avoid the application of different treatments, standards and techniques in the same cultural
landscape area, which could result in damage to or loss of some of the physical evidence.
Up to date, most of the focus in heritage conservation has been on the management of individual structures. As remarked
earlier, cultural landscapes consist of broadscale landscape processes, landscape features, and evidence of the relationships
between them. To retain meaning in cultural landscapes, all of these must be considered in conservation policy, strategy and
management. It is essential to include broadscale landscape processes when considering the management of cultural
landscapes.