Abstract
![CDATA[Heritage protection and conservation are unlike all other areas of environmental law because their planning and project control provisions are so intertwined. Heritage is an exclusively anthropocentric concept, a gloss placed by human beings on artifacts and natural objects. In this view, the value of a forest does not consist simply in its biodiversity: it is an item of our natural heritage. This dependence on human evaluation means that we must use planning systems to identify specific heritage items, although there are exceptions where the law attempts to identify general categories of items (for example, historic shipwrecks and objects of significance to indigenous people).]]
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Environmental Law Handbook: Planning and Land Use in NSW |
| Editors | Peter Williams |
| Place of Publication | Pyrmont, N.S.W. |
| Publisher | Thomson Reuters |
| Pages | 787-826 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Edition | 6th |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780455236124 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780455236117 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- environmental law
- natural areas
- historic sites
- world heritage areas
