Defining the rural policy context / Clive Potter -- Considering significance in the landscape: developing priorities through conservation planning / David Thackray -- Protecting the cultural landscape: national designation and local character / Graham Fairclough -- Current planning policies and legislation for historical rural landscapes / Ian Dormor -- Maintenance and enhancement: the management of environmentally sensitive areas / Peter McCrone -- Mineral working: a window of opportunity / Mike Griffiths -- The management of an archaeological landscape on the army's training area on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire / Ian Barnes -- Woods and forests in the rural landscape: cultural heritage, conservation and management / Tim Yarnell -- Sustainable landscape management: peak practice and theory / Ken Smith -- Nature conservation: taking a wider view / Robert J. Cooke -- Monument conservation in Norfolk: the Monuments Management Project and other schemes / Helen Paterson, Peter Wade-Martins -- Nature conservation and historic properties: an integrated approach / Rachel C. Thomas, David Wells -- The management of the rural landscape: a sense of place / Tim Allen.