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Definition of Natural Heritage

2023
Abstract This chapter covers the definition of natural heritage as per indicated in the 1972 Convention's Article 2. The innovation of the Convention aims to embrace the natural environment within a wider category of world heritage and to express the intergenerational obligation of conservation and transmission. The chapter explains that
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Natural and cultural heritage

International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2005
We receive communal legacies from two sources—the natural environment and the creations of human beings. To be sure, these inheritances everywhere commingle; no aspect of nature is unimpacted by human agency, no artefact devoid of environmental impress. Yet we have traditionally dealt quite differently with these two kinds of legacy.
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Natural Heritage

2023
Melissa Liow Li Sa, Sam Choon-Yin
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Hydrology and the natural heritage of the Scottish mountains

Science of The Total Environment, 2002
The physical natures of the Scottish mountains and their geographical position have created a montane environment, which can be considered as unique in European terms. The mountains of Scotland have been subjected to major environmental changes throughout the past centuries including climate change, deforestation, hydropower developments and more ...
R C, Johnson, D B, Thompson
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Religious Heritage and Nature

2019
The chapter starts by stating the theoretical stand and proposing a case study: a safe haven in Brazil, Caraça. An interdisciplinary stand puts together environmental, tourism, historical, and other perspectives to understand how religious heritage, nature, and people's perceptions interact and produce meaning.
Isabela Barbosa Frederico, Pedro Paulo A. Funari   +1 more
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Natural Heritage

2022
Priya Chaturvedi, Aditya Ranjan
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Primates--A Natural Heritage of Conflict Resolution

Science, 2000
The traditional notion of aggression as an antisocial instinct is being replaced by a framework that considers it a tool of competition and negotiation. When survival depends on mutual assistance, the expression of aggression is constrained by the need to maintain beneficial relationships.
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Natural heritage of Turopolje

2017
U članku se navode zaštićeni dijelovi prirode sukladno Zakonu o zaštiti prirode na području grada Velike Gorice. Posebno se navode vrlo vrijedni dijelovi prirode koji se predlažu zaštititi temeljem posebnog propisa u raznim kategorijama zaštite (park šuma, značajni krajobrazi i spomenici parkovne arhitekture).
Španjol, Željko, Drvodelić, Damir
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Separating natural and cultural heritage: an outdated approach?

Australian Geographer, 2022
Josephine Gillespie
exaly  

Natural hazards and natural heritage - common origins and interference with cultural heritage

2008
The combination of high-rate morphodynamics and high-rate geodynamics makes several areas of the world appealing from the point of view of their scenery, but also dangerous for human beings and their property. In southern Italy relief-building by tectonics and intense seismic activity are the two principal causes of a widespread mass-wasting that ...
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