Barbados National Park -planning proposal

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Barbados National Park -planning proposal- Urban strategies Inc

A national park has been proposed for 17% of the mostly rural less populated area of the island. This is hoped to attract tourism, promote culturally sensitive development, inhance ecology and preserve unique natural features. The plan has involved the perceptions and values of the local people and it is hoped they will continue to participate. Unlike many national parks this is not a nature reserve as such but more a managed landscape in which people live and work to let the community grow in a way that is sensitive to the environment. This is a good way of controlling development pressure in a unique and delecate landscape. The plan doesnt prohibit development it just offers guidelines for creating appropriate economic opportunities. It also identifies areas that need preserving intact and areas that need restoration.

simularities to waiheke

• aiheke is also having trouble preserving its ecological and culturally sensitive areas where people already have ownership and are building on the land.
• Establishing a national park that is not a nature reserve on already established areas could be a good way of controlling waihekes development pressures while restoring and preserving sensitive ecology and environment.

referencelandscape architecture, march2000, p50-53