The Role of Heritage Impact Assessment in Safeguarding World Heritage Sites: Application Study on Historic Areas of Istanbul and Giza Pyramids

Yılmaz, Yıldırım; Gamil, Rehab El

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“…The growing number of HIAs requested by the World Heritage committee shows that increasing attention is being given to it as a practical tool to adequately support the protection and management of World Heritage Sites (WHITRAP & ICCROM ,2020, . Over the past six years, the World Heritage Committee, has requested 148 World Heritage properties to conduct impact assessments, averaging 35 to 45 each year (Jo et al 2022) The methodology aims to create a project that is compatible with the site by systematically evaluating both the positive and negative effects of the project on the property or its buffer zone (Yilmaz & Gamil, 2018;Patiwael, 2022;Jo et al 2022). Through impact assessments, it is possible to identify better projects that provide long-term benefits that meet both conservation and development needs.…”

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Timing's Influence on the Efficacy of Heritage Impact Assessment: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Fanit¹,

Chabi²

2023

IJSSR

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This study aims to emphasize the growing importance of Heritage Impact Assessment in managing world cultural heritage, as it faces various challenges posed by urban development policies. Heritage Impact Assessment is seen as a crucial tool for achieving the balance between preserving cultural heritage and fostering development. The study focuses on the outcomes of the application of Heritage Impact Assessment in five world cultural heritage sites, each facing unique development projects, located in different countries. A case study research method was adopted to provide an in-depth analysis within specific contexts. The results were obtained through a comparative qualitative analysis, which aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the correlation between the timing of implementation and its connection to the efficacy of the evaluation. The results showed that the timing of the implementation of Heritage Impact Assessment can have a significant impact on the final outcome of the evaluation but other factors also play a role, adequate methodology, contextual, and institutional factors. The results demonstrated the two-fold nature of heritage impact assessment, dependent on the time of application: proactive assessment, which helps enhance the world heritage's resilience and prepare it for future development initiatives, and curative assessment, which serves as a corrective measure for specific projects.

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Timing's Influence on the Efficacy of Heritage Impact Assessment: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Fanit¹,

Chabi²

2023

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“…The EIA directives identify cultural heritage as one of the sensitive components among the several impact receptors. The evaluation of cultural heritage within EIA has, nonetheless, been a crucial concern (Fleming, 2008;Roders & Van Oers, 2012;Yilmaz & Gamil, 2018). On the one hand, the continuously inadequate consideration of the specific requirements of cultural World Heritage properties in EIAs (namely of their Outstanding Universal Values (OUV) 1 , authenticity, and integrity) and on the other hand, the increasing number of affected properties, has led to the development of Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) within framework of EIA by ICOMOS (Roders & Van Oers, 2012).…”

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Role of Heritage Impact Assessment in Sustaining Historic Sites

Tahoon

2023

International Journal of Architectural Engineering and Urban Re

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Recently, Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) has been established as a tool for resolving issues that would promote World Heritage (WH) protection in line with sustainable development principles. The increase in HIA requests for impacted WH assets over the last several years indicates that a greater emphasis is being placed on HIA as a useful tool to aid in the management and conservation of cultural heritage against inconsistent development works. However, there was a shortage in the application of a sustainable and integrated impact assessment approach within HIA, which is a key challenge in different HIA projects. Therefore, this paper contributes to addressing the importance of integrating dimensions of sustainable development into the procedures of HIA in accordance with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to be more holistic and sustainable. At first, a literature review was conducted to address the different procedures of HIA and how they could be integrated into a more holistic model of impact assessment that considered sustainable development dimensions. Then, AHP analysis was performed with three experts in the heritage conservation field to address the importance of each dimension within the novel model.

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“…HIA has been increasingly used in project works since the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) has developed guidelines to assess the impacts of development projects on world heritages, and it has played a significant role in reconciling development infrastructure and heritage protection and has become an effective tool for resolving contradictions among stakeholders interested in World Heritage Sites (e.g., Ashrafi et al, 2022; Khalaf, 2015; Patiwael et al, 2019; Rogers, 2017; Yilmaz & Gamil, 2019). Studies by Ebbe (2009) and Ashrafi et al (2022) indicate that both desires of preserving heritage sites and carrying out development projects can be achieved by adjusting project designs and incorporating appropriate materials into cultural heritage properties.…”

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Reconciling Development Infrastructure and Heritage Protection, Through Heritage Impact Assessments: A Case Study of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Omo Valley of Ethiopia

Tesfamichael

2023

Journal of Heritage Management

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Development infrastructure and heritage protection are equally important to many societies and countries in the world. Therefore, it is vital to reconcile both needs of development infrastructure and heritage protection through methods of heritage impact assessment (HIA) conducted using International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) guidelines. The UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Omo valley of Ethiopia is home to various palaeontological, archaeological and paleoanthropological records and, hence, has huge significance to the world as well as to Ethiopia. A road construction designed to pass through the Shungura Formation in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Omo valley of Ethiopia poses a serious problem to the heritage site, and an HIA was conducted to investigate thoroughly the impacts of the road construction on the heritage site. The ICOMOS guideline is a useful tool to carry out HIA, and it is used as a guiding method to conduct the HIA. In order to assess the impacts, data from the key attributes of the heritages were collected; these data are faunal fossils, archaeological records such as stone tools and geological exposures used to date fossils. These are the features that make the heritage site significant, and concentrations of these data from 4 m by 4 m gridded areas are assessed through ICOMOS guidelines, and high concentrations of faunal fossils and archaeological records are found in the areas where the road construction was designed to pass. The impacts of the road construction on the key attributes of the heritage vary from adverse effects (A1 and A4) to severe adverse effects (A2 and A3). Therefore, the road construction design Alt-00 adversely affects the heritage-bearing Shungura Formation which hosts the key attributes of the heritages in the Omo valley of Ethiopia. Following the results of this HIA, an alternative road construction design Alt-03 was suggested, and the new road construction design is adopted by the Ethiopian Road Authority. This particular study from the Omo valley of Ethiopia has played a significant role in saving the heritage sites and has also important implications in balancing the needs of heritage protection and development infrastructure to other parts of the country and elsewhere in the world, and it is a good contribution to future research related to heritages and impacts of development infrastructures.

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The Role of Heritage Impact Assessment in Safeguarding World Heritage Sites: Application Study on Historic Areas of Istanbul and Giza Pyramids

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Timing's Influence on the Efficacy of Heritage Impact Assessment: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Timing's Influence on the Efficacy of Heritage Impact Assessment: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Role of Heritage Impact Assessment in Sustaining Historic Sites

Reconciling Development Infrastructure and Heritage Protection, Through Heritage Impact Assessments: A Case Study of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Omo Valley of Ethiopia

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