A műemlékek sokszínűsége (A 28. Egri Nyári Egyetem előadásai 1998 Eger, 1998)

Előadások / Presentations - SZILASSY Zoltán: Cultural landscapes: a borderline discipline betwen monument protection and nature protection

shaping the cultural landscapes cease to exist, often as a result of political decisions. We have to bear in mind that any decision about land use (including political decisions aimed at intensifying agriculture) will radically and irreversibly change the cultural landscape. A basic condition, therefore, of preserving cultural landscapes is that the decisions affecting their safeguarding, utilisation or eventual development shall reflect, along with political intentions, the will of the local communities as well. The local populations have the fundamental right to determine how and in what circumstances they want to live. It would be also very important to develop legal and economic regulations (incentives) that would provide, through co-ordinated planning for lands of different ownership, for the protection of traditional land use, for sustaining economic activities respectful of nature and the social and cultural traditions of local communities, as well as for preventing any use pattern alien to the character of the landscape or out of scale.