Wetland Futures in Contested Environments: an inter- and transdisciplinary approach to wetland heritage in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Ireland

湿地环境是欧洲最具活力的景观类型之一，经历着气候、人口、经济和政治影响的变化。数千年来，它们一直是人类利用和开发的领域，产生了令人难以置信的丰富多样的物质和非物质遗产。欧洲和世界各地的湿地都在经历着快速的变化和发展，但目前还没有专门的或前瞻性的研究来确定变化对湿地遗产的影响。拟议的项目侧重于爱尔兰、荷兰和英国的主要湿地环境，作为确定这些地区主动和被动变化的测试案例，并确定湿地遗产如何有助于应对当代社会挑战。通过民族志调查、文献回顾、地图回归分析、远程调查和公众与利益相关者互动的结合，研究将确定对湿地遗产的认知变化、对湿地利用的态度变化以及环境内物理条件的变化，这些变化可能会影响湿地遗产的长期生存。近年来，湿地作为有价值的生态服务系统，在水资源管理、洪水缓解和碳封存方面发挥着潜在的作用。这种动力往往与当地民众对遗产和获取湿地资源的看法直接冲突。谈判和调和地方、国家和国际民众的权利和看法是拟议的研究方案将要处理的关键方面之一。

Wetland environments are amongst the most dynamic landscape types in Europe, experiencing change from climatic, demographic, economic and political influences. They have also been an area of human utilisation and exploitation for millennia, resulting in an incredible richness and diversity of tangible and intangible heritage. Wetlands across Europe, and around the world, are actively undergoing rapid change and development, but there are no tailor-made orproactive studies to identify the impacts of change on the heritage contained within wetlands. The proposed project focusses on key wetland environments in Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to act as test cases for the identification of active and passive changes in those regions, and to identify ways in which the heritage of wetlands can contribute to contemporary social challenges. Through a combination of ethnographic survey, literature review, map regression analysis, remote survey and public and stakeholder interaction, the research will identify changing perceptions of wetland heritage, changing attitudes towards wetland utilization, and changing physical conditions within the environments which may influence the longer term survival of wetland heritage. Recent years have seen the potential role of wetlands as valuable ecoservices systems in terms of water management, flood alleviation, and carbon sequestration. This drive can often occur in direct conflict with local populace perceptions of heritage and access to wetland resources. Negotiating and reconciling the rights and perceptions of the local, national and international populace is one of the key aspects that will be addressed within the proposed research programme.