The Antonine Wall Management Plan 2013-18 - Glasgow City Council

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AIM 6: INCREASE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY AND USE THIS NEW RESEARCH TO UNDERPIN WORK TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE
WORLD HERITAGE SITE
SEA topics Biodiversity, flora and
fauna
will the management plan
objective…
Medium-term issues/
objectives
• prevent damage and
encourage favourable
condition to designated
sites and protected
species and undesignated
biodiversity, flora and
fauna?
• promote and enhance
where appropriate
enjoyment and
understanding of the site
from a natural heritage
perspective?
• contribute to effective
adaptation to potential
impacts of climate change
on natural heritage?
Material assets Cultural heritage Landscape and
geodiversity
• maintain or enhance (where
appropriate) the tourism
resource of the WHS and
the wider area?
• support national forestry
policy?
• protect and where
appropriate enhance the
historic environment?
• promote positive effects for
the historic environment
through land management?
• promote and enhance
where appropriate
enjoyment and
understanding of the site
from a cultural heritage
perspective?
• contribute to effective
adaptation to potential
impacts of climate change
on cultural heritage?
• protect and enhance the
landscape and geodiversity
value of the WHS?
• promote positive effects for
the landscape through land
management?
• contribute to effective
adaptation to potential
impacts of climate change
on the landscape?
• promote and enhance
where appropriate
enjoyment and
understanding of the
landscape value and
geodiversity of the site?
Summary and mitigation
Issue: Developing a Research Strategy
Objective 6. 1
A strategy for research on the
Antonine Wall will be prepared. This
will be taken forward in conjunction
with all bodies undertaking research
on the Antonine Wall in universities,
museums, archaeological societies
and commercial archaeological
units.
Objective 6.2
A programme for ongoing survey,
fieldwork and analytical research
will be developed, derived from the
priorities identified in the Research
Strategy
Objective 6.3
Opportunities for international
collaboration will be sought, to link
wider Roman frontier studies and
the ANTONINE WALL WHS
These MP objectives will
focus on the historic
environment values of the
site, and consequently there
are no strong links with the
biodiversity, flora and fauna
objectives. However, there may
be opportunity for research to
increase understanding of the
effects of climate change on
these aspects of the site.
These MP objectives will focus
on the historic environment
values of the site, and
consequently there are no
strong links with the material
assets objectives.
These objectives will
contribute to understanding
and enjoyment of the site.
There is also potential for an
increased understanding of
the effects of climate change
on the cultural heritage on the
site, which would increase the
positive effects.
These MP objectives will focus
on the historic environment
values of the site, and
consequently there are no
strong links with the landscape
and geodiversity objectives.
However, there may be
opportunity for research to
increase understanding of the
effects of climate change on
these aspects of the site.
With the exception of
cultural heritage, which
forms the focus of these
objectives, the overall effect
on wider environmental
factors is expected to be
neutral. However, there is
an opportunity to increase
positive effects though
consideration of incorporation
of research relating to climate
change impacts.
Recommendation: the
research strategy objectives
should consider the potential
for increased understanding
of climate change impacts on
the site, in the context of both
cultural and natural heritage.
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