ABSTRACT
The development of conservation is clearly not one single entity and can be more accurately characterised as a series of potentially contrasting value positions. The evolution of statutory conservation planning has been mainly in response to successive development threats, whereby new policies and value justifications were placed alongside existing ones, forming an increasingly complex web of principles in operation across various levels of practice. However, difficult questions remain unanswered. Where are the tensions within these themes? Where is the conflict, where is the consensus? How has actual practice responded and evolved? Part II attempts to answer these questions by looking at how these issues arise and are accommodated in reality.
