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UNESCO, world heritage and human rights
International Journal of Cultural Property, 2022AbstractThis article examines the relationship between the World Heritage Convention and international human rights law. The first part of the article draws on key phrases in Article 1 of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Constitution, which defines its purpose to elaborate on the role of human rights to ...
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UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention at 40
Current Anthropology, 2013The year 2012 marked the fortieth anniversary of UNESCO’s 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. It remains the major international instrument for safeguarding the world’s heritage. The Convention’s most significant feature is its integration of the concepts of nature conservation and preservation of ...
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2019
The World Heritage List compiles built and natural sites and more recently also intangible traditions and customs judged to be of “outstanding value to humanity” by a commission of UNESCO. The main goals are to draw attention to sites and traditions in danger of disappearing and to assist in preserving them.
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The World Heritage List compiles built and natural sites and more recently also intangible traditions and customs judged to be of “outstanding value to humanity” by a commission of UNESCO. The main goals are to draw attention to sites and traditions in danger of disappearing and to assist in preserving them.
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The 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention
Heritage & Society, 2011(2011). The 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention. Heritage & Society: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 173-186.
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Karst in UNESCO World Heritage Sites
2011This chapter discusses the requirements that must be met and the processes that must be followed before a natural area can be accepted as being worthy of World Heritage status under the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. Particular attention is paid to karst and cave sites.
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The Funding of World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO
2022This contribution analyzes the different funding schemes provided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in order to preserve cultural heritage. It also examines the involvement of the private sector, which was directly advocated for in the World Heritage Convention of 1972.
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Parasitizing landscape for UNESCO World Heritage
Geoforum, 2013Abstract The work of Michel Serres has received recent attention in geographic scholarship, particularly his concept of the parasite. In this article I use this model to investigate an area of geographic study that has remained until now unexamined under this lens: the production of heritage landscapes.
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The UNESCO Regime for the Protection of World Heritage
2009The elaborate description and legal analysis of the UNESCO regime documents a rather developed international administration and cooperation in the field of the protection of cultural and natural sites of outstanding value. Therefore it serves very well as an example for proving the value of the international composite administration model. First of all,
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The 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention
2018Chapter 5 analyses the evolving conception and protection of landscape in the World Heritage Convention. First, it traces the development of landscape protection from its early conceptual dependency on nature, to the incorporation of ‘cultural landscapes’ within the Convention’s scope in 1992.
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