Place Matters: Assessing the potential of the Eco-museum in the UK to connect communities to their landscape and help foster sustainable futures.

《2019年自然状况》报告详细描述了英国生态系统在气候危机面前所面临的压力。它强调了人们的价值观和行为之间的差距，并指出“与自然脱节”是主要因素。该报告的作者宣称，迫切需要研究人与自然的联系以及这种联系如何与可持续行为相关。为了消除自然和文化/社会之间的二分法，我的项目将批判性地研究扩展的观点，即对社会/文化生态系统的全面的基于地方的理解导致个人和社区的相关性，因此更有可能导致长期的可持续护理和发展。这与国际古迹遗址理事会的《我们过去的未来》报告（2019年）相呼应，该报告呼吁研究遗产部门在应对气候危机和培养有复原力的社区方面可以发挥什么作用。与传统博物馆不同，生态博物馆旨在通过社区领导在其自身景观中保护遗产，因此提供了一个强大而民主的渠道，通过该渠道促进有意义的参与，这对于建立持久的情感联系至关重要。我的项目将成为英国所有五个已建立的生态博物馆的第一项研究，从而加深对它们在英国特定背景下的作用和影响的理解，并探索更广泛地理解和采用该框架的潜力，作为保护物质和非物质遗产的适应性合作手段符合法鲁公约（欧洲理事会，2019年）。我打算研究一些关键点;当地社区如何看待生态博物馆-如果有的话，他们在当地社区的参与范围和类型，这种参与对人们对其社区的感情，他们在文化景观中的位置和感知以及他们在保护景观方面的行动产生了什么影响。生态博物馆在促进“未经授权”的遗产、青年和代际参与管理整体生态景观方面具有巨大的潜力，这将是研究的一个特别重点。我还将探索遗产部门以外的新兴实践，生态系统变化与社会计划（2019）了解如何将这些想法应用于一般的遗产部门，特别是生态博物馆，以帮助实现持久的参与，这对实现可持续发展目标所需的文化变革至关重要。

The State of Nature 2019 report starkly details the pressures facing UK ecosystems in the face of climate crisis. It highlights the gap between people's values and actions and states a 'disconnection to nature' as the main factor. Its authors declare that urgent research is needed into connecting people to nature and how such connection is related to sustainable behaviours. With the aim of removing the perceived dichotomy between nature and culture/society, my project will critically examine the expanded view that a holistic place-based understanding of social/cultural-ecosystems leads to relevance for individuals and communities and so is more likely to lead to long term sustainable care and development. This resonates with ICOMOS's 'The Future of Our Pasts' report (2019) call for research into what part the heritage sector can play in tackling climate crisis and fostering resilient communities. Ecomuseums, unlike traditional museums, aim to safeguard heritage within its own landscape and through community leadership and therefore present a powerful and democratic conduit through which to facilitate the type of meaningful engagement that is paramount to creating lasting emotional connections. My project will form the first study of all five established ecomuseums in the UK, thus deepening understanding of their role and impact in a specifically UK context and exploring the potential of a wider understanding and adoption of the framework as an adaptive collaborative means of safeguarding tangible and intangible heritage in line with the Faro Convention (Council of Europe, 2019). I intend to examine a number of key points; how the ecomuseums are perceived by their local communities - if at all, their reach and type of engagement within their local communities, what effect this engagement has on people's feelings towards their communities, their place within and perception of the cultural landscape and their actions in safeguarding that landscape. Ecomuseums have great potential to advance the role of 'unauthorised' heritage, youth and intergenerational engagement in the stewardship of holistic ecological landscapes and this will be a particular focus of the study.I will also explore emerging practice outside the heritage sector, such as the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (2019) to provide understanding of how such ideas may be applied to the heritage sector in general and ecomuseums in particular to help achieve the lasting engagement that is pivotal to effect the cultural transformations that are needed to achieve sustainability goals.