| Advancing Integral Heritage Management |
We strengthen natural-cultural heritage professional and local community performance to conserve and holistically
manage humanity’s meaningful and treasured places. |
| Upcoming EVENTS
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Watch message from director Jon Kohl about PUP's transition from Consortium to Collaboratory and what opportunities this brings to past, current, and future members. |
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Why Holistic Planning Is Critical for Heritage ManagementTraining new managers is not enough. We must also overcome the global crisis of unimplemented management plans.Conventional planners blame the big five: LACK of money, personnel, time, information, or political will. And then lament that the problem is out of their hands. |
So they plan the next time only with more of the big five and still produce more unimplemented plans.The real problem, though, lurks much deeper than simple lacks. The problem emerges from conventional planners’ concept of planning and the world.They assume the PLUS World: Predictable | Linear | Understandable | StaticPLUS plans are essentially scientific studies that only technicians can prepare and read. |
These plans rapidly go out of date in the DICE world:Dynamic |