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Analysing Higher Education Institutions' Role in Sustainable Development Goals: A Systematic Literature Review Analysis and Future Directions

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the current state of the art regarding the contribution of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We conducted a Systematic Literature Review Analysis (SLRA), which integrates a traditional Systematic Literature Review (SLR) with Bibliographic Analysis (BA), on a
Pasquale Latella, Stefania Veltri
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluarea și monitorizarea siturilor înscrise în Lista patrimoniului mondial din România [PDF]

open access: yesPlural: History, Culture, Society, 2018
Since 1972, UNESCO has established a frame of protection for cultural and natural heritage (Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage) and the “World Heritage List”, which it considers as having an outstanding ...
Musteata, Sergiu
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Pacific Island 'Memory of the World Project'. Report on Initial Research from NZETC

open access: yes, 2006
The UNESCO Pacific Island Memory of the World Programme commissioned the NZETC to start Phase One of the Pacific Memory of the World Project. The NZETC was given a limited time frame of 7 weeks in which to create a list of the founding documents of each ...
Mapplebeck, Georgina, Stevenson, Alison
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World Heritage Listing of Australian Natural Sites: Tourism Stimulus and its Economic Value [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Australia has 14 areas inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, on the basis of their globally outstanding natural and in some cases also cultural values. Many regard listing as prestigious and believe that it acts as a signalling device like a brand
Tisdell, Clement A.   +1 more
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UNESCO’s “Benign Organism”: The ‘World Heritage Regime’ and Its International Influence

open access: yes, 2011
State aspirations to have national properties recognised as belonging to the heritage of humanity with an international significance has increasingly empowered the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in regard to its
Ferrucci, Stefania
core   +2 more sources

Weichselian history of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet centre, Kvarken archipelago, western Finland—flow shifts, thermal regime and deglaciation

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Rapid thaw of the Earth's cryosphere in response to anthropogenic warming highlights the need to identify and understand the contrasting signatures of past ice‐sheet stability and collapse. The Kvarken archipelago, western Finland, at the centre of the former Fennoscandian Ice Sheet (FIS), has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in recognition
Niko Putkinen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

open access: yes, 2014
27 October is the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. This year's slogan is "Archives at Risk: Much More to do" . This is also a major issue for the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), and reason enough for it to present its 'scientific film archive'.
openaire   +1 more source

Tourism development in world heritage urban areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper will discuss how some World Heritage classified urban areas are developing in terms of sustainability, mainly in terms of preservation and tourism development.
Alvares, Daniela, Lourenço, Júlia
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Entrepreneurial State as a Creative Destroyer: Comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore's Creative Industries

open access: yesCreativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the limits of mission‐directed entrepreneurial states by drawing on the theory of recombinant innovation and F.A. Hayek's insights on the spontaneous growth of knowledge in society. First, the use of discretionary policymaking curtails the range of knowledge generated in the process of social interaction, limiting the scope
Bryan Cheang, Praharsh Mehrotra
wiley   +1 more source

The first heritage international(s): rethinking global networks before UNESCO [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper discusses the global networks that shaped the making of heritage in the modern world. While most accounts of heritage internationalism have focused on the period since the foundation of UNESCO, the paper suggests a longer chronology to better ...
Swenson, A
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