UNESCO, World Heritage, and Sustainable Development: International Discourses and Local Impacts

Labadi, Sophia

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-44515-1_4

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“…In other words, HIA should take into account not only the impact-both potential and actual, and beneficial and detrimental-from one direction, of external forces on heritage, but also the impact, from the other direction, of heritage on its contextual communities. Indeed, this insight has inspired many recent applied and critical heritage studies (e.g., Guzmán, Pereira Roders, & Colenbrander, 2017;Hassan, 2017;Keitumetse, 2011;Labadi, 2017;Ndlovu, 2017). Furthermore, when HIA is reciprocal, it reveals both threats to heritage and opportunities and justifications for investment in its management and conservation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Heritage Place Building Theory, Heritage Impact Assessment and the Role of the Sacred Dimension

Kimball

2017

Journal of Heritage Management

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Heritage properties increasingly face a number of core challenges to their management and conservation. Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA), especially that which focuses on UNESCO's notion of outstanding universal value, effectively identifies threats posed by some of these challenges. However, heritage is not only a potential or actual recipient of negative impacts. Through heritage enterprises-private, non-profit or public entities whose missions include heritage education, management and/or conservationheritage also impacts its place, that is, the set of relations that includes location, activities, values, objects and contextual communities. Heritage Place Building Theory (HPBT), a participatory approach that comprises four place building orientations and five analytical dimensions, facilitates the development of a reciprocal (bi-directional) HIA protocol, which is better suited to addressing and transforming core challenges to heritage management and conservation. In this article, HPBT and its relevance to a reciprocal HIA are presented and explained. Furthermore, a new, sixth HPBT dimension-the sacredis defined and explored through a preliminary assessment of two heritage enterprise examples.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Heritage Place Building Theory, Heritage Impact Assessment and the Role of the Sacred Dimension

Kimball

2017

Journal of Heritage Management

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“…The towers were not related to the old and they dispersed the historical urban structure of the area. The key purpose of the capitalists was to earn a pro t under the pretext of repairing the chaos of old areas [16].…”

Section: Maintenance and Development Of French Historical Areas And Bmentioning

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Investigating Visualization Principles for Heritage Rehabilitation

Al-Sakkaf¹,

El-Zahab²,

Lasod³

2020

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Many countries of the world suffered the problem of historical neighborhoods within their urban entity, through various treatments and phases. Regardless of numerous treatments, the city in general is described as an organic entity that has past, present, and future. This past with its birth, originality, and transformation had to have relied on material and spiritual assets that surrounded it, and the urban texture that lived and continued in the peripheries of the cities during the past era is only cultural humanitarian production that interacted and was environmentally consistent and covered the human needs that were related to time and place. In this article, three international experiences were chosen from countries that are different in their geographic location and cultural heritage, and have analyzed their experiences to conserve the historical identity of cities, as follows: The first experience which is handled by the research is the experience of France in the renovation, conservation, and improvements of heritage sites. Any type of dealing on whatever level with historical areas (whether subject to maintenance, improvement or renewal) were subject and belonged to a general plan that was set based on a comprehensive view of the city as a whole, taking into account all elements that affect the problem, including economic, social, cultural and political matters. It is known that France holds advanced philosophical and theoretical heritage in the field of urban planning based on situations of the senior architects and theorists of planning in the past century. The second experience studied in this article takes place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and presents astounding results in the field. It was renewed and was conserved by autonomous efforts by the rehabilitation of many historical cities and restoration of their vitality and spirituality to become attractive to tourism, heritage value, and investment. North America included the United State of America and Canada.

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“…Determination of scenic characteristics, conservation, protection and management has undoubtedly become a mandatory challenging issue within coastal areas [11,[31][32][33][34]. In many world tourist destinations, 3S tourism has favored the total or partial urbanization of coastal areas [35][36][37][38][39][40][41] as was the case for several Mediterranean Spanish coastal sectors where the built-up zone exceeds 45%, stark evidence of the great contemporary necessity of the improvement of sustainable tourism [42][43][44][45], which is based on four principles: (i) Natural and cultural resources must be preserved for future use; (ii) Tourism development must be planned and managed with environmental and sociocultural responsibility; (iii) The importance of guaranteed visitor satisfaction to preserve the prestige and commercial potential of the destination; (iv) The benefits of tourism are widely shared throughout society [46][47][48].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Coastal Scenic Beauty and Sensitivity at the Balearic Islands, Spain: Implication of Natural and Human Factors

Mooser

Anfuso

Gómez-Pujol

et al. 2021

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Coastal areas globally are facing a significant range of environmental stresses, enhanced by climate change-related processes and a continuous increase of human activities. The economic benefits of tourism are well-known for coastal regions, but, very often, conflicts arise between short-term benefits and long-term conservation goals. Among beach user preferences, five parameters of greater importance stand out from the rest, i.e., safety, facilities, water quality, litter and scenery; the latter is the main concern of this study. A coastal scenic evaluation was carried out in the Balearic Islands and focused on two major issues: coastal scenic beauty together with sensitivity to natural processes and human pressure. The archipelago is renowned as a top international coastal tourist destination that receives more than 13.5 million visitors (2019). Impressive landscape diversity makes the Balearics Islands an ideal field for this research. In total, 52 sites, respectively located in Ibiza (11), Formentera (5), Mallorca (18) and Menorca (18), were field-tested. In a first step, coastal scenic beauty was quantified using the coastal scenic evaluation system (CSES) method, based on the evaluation of 26 physical and human parameters, and using weighting matrices parameters and fuzzy logic mathematics. An evaluation index (“D”) was obtained for each site, allowing one to classify them in one of the five scenic classes established by the method. Twenty-nine sites were included in class I, corresponding to extremely attractive sites (CSES), which were mainly observed in Menorca. Several sound measures were proposed to maintain and/or enhance sites’ scenic value. In a second step, scenic sensitivity was evaluated using a novel methodological approach that makes possible the assessment of three different coastal scenic sensitivity indexes (CSSI), i.e., the natural sensitivity index NSI, the human sensitivity index HSI and the total sensitivity index TSI. Future climate change trends and projection of tourism development, studied at municipality scale, were considered as correction factors. All the islands showed places highly sensitive to environmental processes, while sensitivity to human pressure was essentially observed at Ibiza and Mallorca. Thereafter, sites were categorized into one of three sensitive groups established by the methodology. Results obtained are useful in pointing out very sensitive sceneries as well as limiting, preventing and/or anticipating future scenic degradation linked to natural and human issues.

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UNESCO, World Heritage, and Sustainable Development: International Discourses and Local Impacts

Cited by 45 publications

References 5 publications

Heritage Place Building Theory, Heritage Impact Assessment and the Role of the Sacred Dimension

Heritage Place Building Theory, Heritage Impact Assessment and the Role of the Sacred Dimension

Investigating Visualization Principles for Heritage Rehabilitation

Coastal Scenic Beauty and Sensitivity at the Balearic Islands, Spain: Implication of Natural and Human Factors

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