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World Heritage Review 99: World Heritage in China (Special Issue)
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The 44th session of the World Heritage Committee, Fuzhou (China)/online meeting), was held from 16 to 31 July 2021. At its annual session, the World Heritage Committee makes decisions on whether a property will be inscribed on the World Heritage List. It also examines reports on the state of...
World Heritage Review 97: People protecting World Heritage
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The World Heritage Convention is a unique legal instrument, protecting both cultural and natural sites. It has a broad reach, but it is only effective because of the people who implement it: site managers, local communities, young people, city authorities, heritage experts…the list goes on....
World Heritage Review 96: Biodiversity
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This issue was prepared in anticipation of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) originally planned for October 2020 in Kunming, China, where many far-reaching decisions concerning the preservation of biodiversity were meant to be taken. We explore some of the World Heritage sites with...
World Heritage Review 95: Interpretation and COVID-19
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The year 2020 began with an unprecedented health crisis that has affected all of us. Inevitably, World Heritage sites have suffered too. The abrupt halt in travel and tourism cut off the stream of visitors and the revenue they bring, for some sites the only source of income to cover...
World Heritage Review 94: New Sites
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Twenty-nine sites were added to the World Heritage List at the 43rd session of the World Heritage Committee held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 30 June to 10 July 2019. This issue will present each new site, with photographs and a description of its Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) – the...
World Heritage Review 93: The Silk Roads
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he Silk Roads encompass some of the most complex and fascinating systems in the history of world civilizations. A shifting network of roads and pathways for trade that evolved over centuries, it enabled the exchange of cargo such as silk, spices, gems, furs, but also shared art, religion and...
World Heritage Review 91 - Walled cities
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In this issue of  World Heritage  we will encounter Great Zimbabwe, the legendary capital of the Queen of Sheba and the country’s first cultural site to be inscribed on the World Heritage List, in 1986. Then we look at Cartagena, Colombia, which has the most extensive fortifications in South...
World Heritage Review 90 - World Heritage Success Stories
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The true measure of the Convention is the effectiveness of its implementation. It is the concrete results that matter, for the sites and for the people who live in or near them. When there are positive results at one World Heritage property, all countries that are party to the Convention can...
World Heritage Review 89 - World Heritage and Wetlands
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For this issue of  World Heritage , we have collaborated with our friends at the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, which recognizes and helps protect wetland sites of international importance. Over 100 World Heritage properties are also designated as Ramsar Sites, in whole or in part, and our two...
World Heritage Review 87: World Heritage and illicit trade
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It is a problem that has been growing surreptitiously across the globe. As just one example, since 2011, approximately 25 per cent of Syria’s archaeological sites have been pillaged. Objects from conflict regions, including from Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Mali are circulating on the black...
World Heritage Review 86: World Heritage and Reconstruction
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The formulation of sound guidance is urgently required on issues related to recovery, taking into account the need to support the affected local communities. To this end, expert meetings have been convened by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM and ICOMOS, and seminars are being held at...
World Heritage Review 85: World Heritage and Modern Heritage
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In this issue, we will look closely at the Sydney Opera House (Australia), from its construction to its role today as a vibrant cultural centre; Grimeton Radio Station (Sweden), a monument to early wireless transatlantic communication built in 1922-1924 and still in working condition; and the...
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