Lakes World Heritage

Description: 
The Lakes is now inscribed as a UNESCO Cultural Landscape World Heritage site and stemming from the UNESCO inscription statement and the attributes and components that combine to make the place special are now established and agreed. The lakes needs to be monitored in these terms. please check out: https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/6902
Originator: 
UNESCO and Lakes Partnership
Is this an existing or new approach to measuring landscape change?: 
Existing
Spatial coverage: 
All the (old) LDNP
Geographical unit: 
...by attribute & component each of the 13 valleys and the whole
Frequency of measure: 
Continuous
Indicator: 
Should be continuous to fit with the Lakes State of the Park reports, Management Plan work and UNESCO periodic reporting.
Barriers: 
Awareness, understanding and embedding within the Partnership and landscape monitoring partners.
Resource requirements: 
Lakes WHS Officer, Lakes WHS TAG others.
Establishment cost: 
Medium (additional staff time and limited cash up to £15k)
Any other comments: 
Please discuss with Mairi Lock and/or myself
Ongoing operational cost: 
unknown
Ongoing reporting cost: 
unknown
Data source: 
Various
Submitted by: 
Keith Jones
Forestry Commission

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