
The
Council of Europe - Adopted
in
Florence
,
Italy
, on 20 October 2000 and in force since the 1st of March
2004, the European Landscape Convention aims to promote the
protection, management and planning of European landscapes and to
organise European co-operation on landscape issues. It is the first
international treaty to be exclusively concerned with the
protection, management and enhancement of European landscape.
Department of
Environment, Heritage & Local Government - To promote
sustainable development and improve the quality of life through
protection of the environment and heritage, infrastructure
provision, balanced regional development and good local
government.
The
Heritage Council - The Heritage Council was established as a
statutory body under the Heritage act 1995. Its role is to propose
policies and priorities for the identification, protection,
preservation and enhancement of the national heritage. National
Heritage is defined as including monuments, archaeological objects,
heritage objects such as art and industrial works, documents and
genealogical records, architectural heritage, flora, fauna, wildlife
habitats, landscapes, seascapes, wrecks, geology, heritage gardens,
parks and inland waterways.
Cork Environmental
Forum is a cross sectoral, umbrella organisation of
approximately 650 organisations groups and individuals mostly from
the Cork region.
COFORD, the
National Council for Forest Research and Development. COFORD
coordinates and funds appropriate and cost-effective research to
secure long-term industrial viability and optimise social,
environmental and cultural developments associated with forestry.
The Aga Khan
Development Network and its agencies actively seek to co-operate
with like-mindedinstituions in the design, implmentation and funding
of innovative development projects.
The
Hollies is a development centre for training in Practical
Sustainability. They aim to create working examples of what a
sustainable society might look like in the areas of agriculture,
housing, energy, gardening, economics and community development.
ECOVAST, the
European Council for the Village and Small Town, was set up in 1984
to further the well-being of rural communities, and the safeguarding
of the rural heritage, throughout Europe
Crann is a
non-governemental, non-profit organisation with branches
nation-wide.
Over the years, Ireland has been continuously importing tropical
hardwoods from third world countries contributing therefore to the
causes of famine. In 1986 Crann was set up by Jan Alexander to
reverse this trend and to raise awareness of the importance of
sustainable home-grown hardwood forestry to meet Ireland’s timber
needs.
ELCAI Co-ordinated from Alterra,
Wageningen, this project checks the usefulness of landscape
character assessment to link existing regional/national scale
approaches with a large scale European view. This is to support
future policy implementation of European landscape conservation
measures.
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