1. Connemara Where Europe Begins
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2. About Connemara 2000 sq Km 31,000 people 14,500 Households
1100 businesses
526 Community Organisations
250,000 annual Tourists
Highly Seasonal (Spring – Summer)
High Emigration
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3. Sustainability V Progress
Sustainability and Progress often Clash in Different ways
Eye sore V Sea shore ?
Sheep Farms and / or Wind Farms?
People V Policy
Progress Policy says Yes
People say No
Progress Policy says No
People say Yes
Who and How should the outcome be decided?
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4. Connemara Strategy
Preserve: Preserve the natural, cultural, social and heritage assets of Connemara using an appropriate mix of
physical management, documentation and digitisation.
Promote: Market Connemara and support businesses in sustainably exploiting and benefiting from
the natural, cultural, social and heritage resources of Connemara.
Prepare: Establish and maintain, up to date, Connemara based skills and resources for the sustainable
physical and digital management of Connemara's natural, cultural, social and heritage resources.
No policy can preserve what a community does not Value
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5. Thank you Connemara Programme: www.connemaraprogramme.com
Sustainable Connemara:
Connepedia
Holy Wells of Connemara:
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