The Politics of Peril: UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger

Brown, Nicholas E.; Liuzza, Claudia; Meskell, Lynn

doi:10.1080/00934690.2019.1600929

Cited by 33 publications

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“…The example of Mali where the international community concentrated largely on the architecture and manuscripts might be the easy part, but the long-term protection of the heritage and people of Mali is the creation of peace and stability in the country. Cultural heritage may offer a way to peace and stability (Brown et al, 2019 ). There is need to ensure that cultural heritage stewardship is integrated into conflict management.…”

Section: Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gathering in the Heart of Prague for WAC-9 amid Conflict and Pandemic

Arthur

Carman

2022

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Section: Conflictmentioning

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Gathering in the Heart of Prague for WAC-9 amid Conflict and Pandemic

Arthur

Carman

2022

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“…Possible reasons for ending up on this list include physical deterioration, large-scale public or private development projects, threats of an armed conflict, calamities and cataclysms (UNESCO 1972: Article 11 §4 cited in Brown et al, 2019). Common threats identified are management and institutional factors (e.g., lack of financial resources, legal protection, management plans), followed by buildings and development, other human activities (e.g., civil unrest, war, illegal activities), and social/cultural uses of heritage (e.g., tourism, changes in local lifeways, social cohesion) (Boniface, 2001;Brodie & Renfrew, 2005;Brown et However, being on the danger list is not in itself a factor that stirs demand for the WHS, instead it is expected to reflect a particular type of sites, assumedly very old and well-established long before inscription to the UNESCO programme. Examples of this are the Everglades National Park, the Old City of Dubrovnik, the Plitvice Lakes National Park and the Yellowstone National Park (https://whc.unesco.org/en/danger/).…”

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confidence: 99%

Visitor flows to World Heritage Sites in the era of Instagram

Falk

Hagsten

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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The aim of this study is to investigate the extent of visitors to World Heritage Sites in Europe and North America, given their specific location and characteristics. Visitor flows are approximated by 680 million Instagram posts for about 525 World Heritage Sites. Independent variables encompass year of inscription, size, type (monuments, churches, castles, architecture, industrial heritage, archaeological sites and cultural and natural landscapes), covered by the danger list, inclusion criteria and country of location. Results using robust regression and spatial lag models show that entire world heritage cities receive the highest number of Instagram posts while industrial heritage and prehistoric sites get the lowest number. The number of Instagram posts is significantly higher for the few World Heritage Sites included in the danger list and World Heritage Sites that are nominated in the early years of the programme.

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“…The Elbe River valleys in the vicinity of Dresden were excluded from the World Heritage List. The monument of the historical landscape "Reserve of the Arabian antelope in Oman" was excluded from the World Heritage List due to the poaching and oil production (Brown et al, 2019).…”

Section: Economic Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%