A Study on Underlying Conceptions of the National Park Planning and Management by Analysing the Building Control Guideline and its Applications

Abstract

The building control guidline and its applications were examined for underlying conceptions of the National Park planning and management.
The building control guidline in “The guideline for various activities within National Parks” compiled by the Environment Agency implies that
1) conservation of natural landscape is of the primary importance and assessment of human involved landscapes of the secondary, and that
2) artificial structures is to be hidden in forests thus invisible in natural landscapes.
Meanwhile the actual applications of the guidline by the Agency indicate that a conception of assesing human involved landscape is virtually missing due to the strong bias toward conservation of pure natural landscapes.