ABSTRACT
Diverse and plural landscape attitudes in Australia over 200 years, the beach and bush dichotomy, and attempts to understand Aboriginal landscape management have evolved into a new ’caring for country’ paradigm. Different regional and disciplinary cultures have influenced how landscape is conceptualised, and on how the ’wide, brown land’ has broadened to encompass landscape’s social value and its role in sustainable development. World Heritage concepts rather than Landscape Character Assessment methods have dominated the management of the inherited values of landscape.
