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The Protected Landscape Approach: Linking Nature, Culture and Community
including six years as National Programme Manager of the Park People Programme (under the
UNDP), Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.
Susan Buggey is former Director of Historical Services, Parks Canada and now Adjunct
Professor, School of Landscape Architecture, Université de Montréal, Canada. She has been
active in research, evaluation, and writing on cultural landscapes for 25 years. Her research
interests focus on the associative values of cultural landscapes and the meanings of landscapes
in diverse cultures.
Elizabeth Hughes is Executive Director of the International Centre for Protected Landscapes,
Wales, UK. The Centre offers international academic and professional training programmes in
protected landscape management and related topics; it also undertakes capacity-building,
consultancy and advisory work on behalf of protected area agencies, governments, and NGOs
around the world. Dr Hughes’ particular interests are in the fields of partnership-building,
participatory approaches, and the role of civil society in protected area management.
Blažena Hušková works as a private consultant and trainer and as a project manager for the
Jizerske hory Public Benefit Organization, Czech Republic. Previously she was a landscape
ecologist with the Jizerske hory Mountains Protected Landscape Area and was the founding
director of the Foundation for the Rescue and Restoration of the Jizera Mountains. Past projects
have focused on the revitalization of forest ecosystems affected by air pollution; more recently
she has specialized in public participation in planning and decision-making processes, crosssectoral
communication and cooperation, and the role of NGOs in the process of formulating
and implementing sustainable development strategies.
Brian T. B. Jones is the Senior Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM)
Technical Adviser to USAID in Namibia. Formerly he was an independent consultant in the
environment and development sector. For several years he was a Namibian government
official, coordinating the CBNRM programme of the Namibian Ministry of Environment and
Tourism. (The views expressed by him in this book do not necessarily represent the official
position of USAID or the US Government).
Miroslav Kundrata is the Director of Nadace Partnerství (the Czech Environmental
Partnership Foundation), the Czech Republic’s most significant grant-making foundation
active in the area of environment and sustainable development. As chairman of the Czech
Donors Forum board, and a member of the Czech Governmental Council for NGOs (chair of
the EU Committee), he is active in institution-building within the NGO sector, and in
development and fundraising for various national and international programmes. He is
chairman of the board of the Veronica Ecological Foundation, and founding member of the
Traditions of the White Carpathians Association and of the Union for the Morava River.
Jane L. Lennon is currently an adjunct professor at the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and
the Pacific, Deakin University, Melbourne (Australia) specializing in cultural landscapes. She
has over thirty years of experience in planning and management of national park and heritage
places, including assessments for the Australian Heritage Commission and preparing cultural
landscape management guidelines for UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre. She is a member of
the Australian Heritage Council, and is a past president of Australia ICOMOS (International
Council on Monuments and Sites).
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