ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the theme of the growing relationship between heritage and natural historical aspects of conservation, the two contributing to sustainable strategies for the future. Education and tourism also have a role to play in promoting a more integrated approach. However, in some countries tradition militates in varying degrees against an integrated perspective. Heritage conservation focused on individual settlement sites, although arguably it is often the wider context that is significant. This includes the cemetery, track ways and fields, as well as the neighbouring bogs and ponds containing biological and sedimentary evidence essential for an understanding of that site's environmental context and history. The global perspectives have been a goal of the World Archaeological Congress since 1986. Others have similarly argued for a multivocal approach which is receptive to different views of the past.
