Central Highlands Community Heritage Workshops & Social Values Assessment
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Johnston, C. 1994. Technical assessment of social value: Central Highlands. Report prepared for the Australian Heritage Commission by Chris Johnston, Context Pty Ltd.
Johnston, C., Lewis, N., Mathews, S. and McCann, J. 1993. Places of importance from the Central Highlands Workshops.
Johnston, C. and Lewis, N. 1993. Central Highlands Workshops: Summary report by consultants (Melbourne & Rawson workshops). Report to the Australian Heritage Commission and the Dept of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Johnston, C., Lewis, N., Mathews, S. and McCann, J. 1993. Places of importance from the Central Highlands Workshops: AHC Database Report. [This report was derived from an Access database developed for the project that contained a record of all of the places identified in the workshops plus full heritaage assessments for the ‘priority’ places.]
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The community-based workshop methodology was again used to identify forest places valued by the community and to create a foundation for the assessment of their significance in the Central Highlands of Victoria. This forested region is located to the immediate north of Melbourne, and like East Gippsland, has highly contested natural and cultural heritage values. It is defined by towering Mountain Ash (Eucalytus regnans) forests, and also includes Melbourne’s protected water catchment areas.
Four workshops were held, including one in Melbourne designed for organisations representing users of the region’s forests. After each workshop, we prepared a priority list of places to be visited, with each to be documented and the values assessed.
This second regional assessment project enabled refinement of the methods piloted in East Gippsland and included the opportunity to shaped a framework for the assessment of social value at a regional scale, another important first in this emerging field. This framework was then applied to other regions included in the Commonwealth-State Joint Regional Assessment Program.