UNDERSTANDING THE CULTURAL CONTEXT of the Cultural Landscape of Glass House Mountains
5. LANDSCAPE / HERITAGE INTEGRITY Currently there appears to be little pressure for the iconic
value of these mountain peaks to become a marketable commodity in eco-tourism terms. However, the open space character of the various land-uses on the coastal plain is currently under severe pressure from expanding urban developments. This pressure has implications for the conservation of significant heritage landscapes, natural and cultural. This pressure also threatens the separate physical identity of two community areas, Caboolture and Caloundra Shires.
• To address the natural versus cultural nexus in heritage conservation with a view to facilitating a useful dialogue and respect between the proponents.
• To monitor trends in eco-tourism relevant to this landscape to insure the continued recognition of the iconic landscape heritage integrity of the mountain peaks.
Table 4.8
MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS FOR
GLASS HOUSE MOUNTAINS Cultural Landscapes DESIRED KEY
HERITAGE OUTCOMES
Overarching conventions, strategies, policies and instruments currently in
place
ACTIONS to facilitate Desired Key
Heritage Outcomes Responsibility for
the management of heritage landscapes as environmental land systems:
Global, National
• The Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971)
• 1992 Rio Earth Summit with further signing by Australia of a Statement of Commitment 1997 with particular reference to Agenda 21.
State
• Strategy for the Conservation and Management of Queensland Wetlands, (Environmental Protection Agency Queensland Government 1999)
•Implement the provisions of the Strategy for the
Conservation and
Management of Queensland Wetlands, as they apply to the Pumicestone Passage and its environs.
Commitment to the concept of living and working heritage
Global, National
• 1992 Rio Earth Summit with further signing by Australia of a Statement of Commitment 1997 with particular reference to Agenda 21.
State
• Q'ld Integrated Planning Act 1997, (IPA) "Explanation of terms used in ecological sustainability , Clause 1.3.6 for section 1.3.3-", particularly part (c.)
• South East Queensland Regional Framework for Growth Management 2000.
•Monitor the revision of the South East Queensland Regional Framework for Growth Management 2000 to ensure that the complex community heritage issues of this landscape are integrated into future plans.
Recognition of Multiple Heritage Values
National
• The Australian Heritage Commission Criteria for entry on The Register of the National Estate.
State
• Queensland Heritage Act 1992.
• Q'ld Integrated Planning Act (1997)
"State, regional and local dimensions of planning scheme matters, Clause 2.1.4 (1), Core matters for planning schemes, Section 4.(1) (.c),
subsection (3) In subsection (1) (.c) -
"valuable features"
Local
• Provisions / objectives of the Caloundra City Council Cultural Landscape Study.
•Enter the Glasshouse
Mountains Cultural Landscape on the Register of the
National Estate as a place of National Significance.
•Ensure this landscape is fully considered under the
Objectives and Supporting Provisions for Protection of the Caloundra City Council Cultural Landscape Study.
DESIRED KEY HERITAGE
OUTCOMES
OVERARCHING CONVENTIONS, STRATEGIES, POLICIES AND INSTRUMENTS currently in place
ACTIONS to facilitate Desired Key
Heritage Outcomes Respect for Specific
Community Values
• IUCN Zaire Resolution on the Protection of Traditional Ways of Life 1975.
• Devise means to enable indigenous people's lands can be brought into conservation areas without the loss of use and tenure rights ;
• Recognize the rights of people to live on traditional lands;
• Establish protected areas in
consultation with traditional owners, and no indigenous people should be displaced by the creation of a protected area.
•Pursue claims under the Native Title (Queensland) Act 1993.
•Investigate interpreting and protecting heritage
landscapes using the provisions of The Cultural Records (Landscapes Queensland and Queensland Estates ) Act 1987.
Deference to the heritage integrity, both cultural and physical, innate in the land systems of Queensland.
• Nomination of key Q'ld cultural landscapes for World Heritage Area status
• The development of a number of National Strategies to implement the objectives of the international treaties referred to above.
• Queensland Heritage Act 1992.
• The adoption of the Q'ld Integrated Planning Act (1997)
• The requirement that LGA's amend their planning schemes in line with the IPA
•Develop a business plan for heritage tourism here in accordance with the Draft Heritage Tourism Guidelines, AHC 1999.
•Support the urgent completion of the National Heritage Places Strategy as a support instrument for COAG certification.
A Summary of Findings
The Glass House Mountains Region Case Study provided an example of a landscape possessing natural attributes of Iconic significance deserving a State and arguably National Level of recognition of that significance. In acknowledging this significance all the difficulties often experienced in seeking to define the physical geographical extent of that significance to satisfy current legislative conservation instruments were highlighted.
From this case study a proposal for a style of citation tailored to the needs of cultural landscape conservation rather than the specific artefact and place conservation citation format currently used in Queensland was developed. The proposed citation format built on approaches already familiar within heritage conservation practises.
Finally, a cultural landscape citation was prepared resulting from the investigations in this case study and is attached as Appendix A. This citation was presented to the Queensland Environment Protection Agency, Cultural Heritage Branch as a nomination to the Queensland Heritage Register.
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