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World Heritage Review 83: Museums and visitor centres
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Thousands of museums are located in and around World Heritage sites. Site museums preserve the integrity of the sites through conservation efforts, but also enhance interpretation and visitor education. Experts, tourists and local communities all have a role in these activities. Museums can also...
World Heritage Review 78: World Heritage and gender equality
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It is increasingly recognized that culture has an essential role to play as a driver of sustainable development, contributing to the eradication of poverty and enhancing social inclusion. Culture helps to define people’s identities and determines the way they shape their future. Gender equality,...
World Heritage Review 66: Small Island Developing States
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The SIDS were recognized as a distinct group of developing countries in June 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, and have since become a point of focus for World Heritage identification and protection. The present issue of World Heritage is devoted specifically...
World Heritage Review 64: World Heritage in the Russian Federation
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It is also worth noting that Russia’s Tentative List includes twenty-seven more natural and cultural sites for possible inscription – some of which will be considered at the Committee session. This conveys the country’s continued and even ambitious commitment to the implementation of the...
World Heritage Review 59: Living with Water
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This display of human creativity and ingenuity reveals the brilliance of our common heritage and the potential for future technological advances. By gaining a deeper knowledge of the principles by which societies have managed water resources, we can better discern the optimal strategies for...
World Heritage Review 58: Part threat, part hope The challenge of tourism
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Issue 58 of our quarterly magazine explores these questions with a lead article by Jonathan B. Tourtellot, National Geographic Fellow, Geotourism Editor at National Geographic Traveler and World Heritage advocate. Other features include in-depth looks at tourism management at Hoi An, Viet Nam;...
World Heritage Review 57: World Heritage in Brazil
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When the colonizers first reached these shores, the new world unfolding before them appeared boundless. They came in search of rare woods, minerals and precious stones, and they set to work with a will. The ravaged landscapes of the Northeast, the lateritized hills of Minas Gerais and other...
World Heritage Review 55: World Heritage Cities
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Revising the approach to urban conservation The capacity of historic cities to accommodate and benefit from the radical and rapid changes that accompany urban growth while maintaining heritage values is becoming a critical issue. Towards social inclusion in urban settings More than half...
World Heritage Review 54: Astronomy and World Heritage
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The observatories of Greenwich or St. Petersburg, on the contrary, were obviously designed for this purpose, as were, in the 14th century, the Ulugh-Beg observatory in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) or the Jantar Mantar observatories in India (18th century), which bring together some of the most...
World Heritage Review 53: World Heritage in Spain Special Issue
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Spain is among the countries that have made the most outstanding intellectual and practical contributions to the successful propagation of the World Heritage concept worldwide through a number of remarkable and far-sighted initiatives and a range of generous financial contributions. The...
World Heritage Review 51: reinstallation of the Aksum Obelisk
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The stele, removed from Aksum in 1937 after Mussolini’s army had marched into Ethiopia, was assembled and raised in Rome. It stood there until 2005, when it was finally taken apart again and returned to Ethiopia. The reinstalled stele was initially intended to serve as a royal funerary monument....
World Heritage Review 101: New Sites
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This issue is dedicated to the latest additions to the World Heritage List, spectacular properties ranging from Gabon’s Ivindo National Park and Iran’s Trans-Iranian Railway to Thailand’s Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex and France’s Cordouan Lighthouse. During its 44th session, the World Heritage...
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