ABSTRACT
Cultural landscapes have achieved international recognition as critical to the practice of cultural heritage management. Nevertheless, application of the concept is affected by varying worldwide regional cultural perceptions of landscape. For many countries, including Thailand, the concept and associated international frameworks – for example, World Heritage categories – are relatively new. They present a challenge in applying the frameworks and accepting the holistic idea of landscape as a heritage conservation management tool against the conventional view of heritage values residing primarily in monuments and prescribed sites.
