ABSTRACT
The spatiality of cultural heritage in the landscape is frequently the cause of dispute and outrage involving local communities. On a global scale confl icts in the landscape form part of social, economic, political and religious struggles between groups who have different interests with regard to the cultural heritage. It is a debate about identity and values, the vulnerable core of qualities that make up the contradictory attitudes of those who either cherish or despise the thought of having to live with the cultural heritage. Some would even consider dissonance to be a characteristic feature of the relationship between resource management and cultural heritage (Turnbridge and Ashworth 1996). My case study of such present-day confl icts, where two types of professional landscape management regimes were investigated (Lillehammer 2007, 2005, 2004, 2001), developed a particular method in order to overcome the dissonance between the two groups.
