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Too hot to handle: Unprecedented seagrass death driven by marine heatwave in a World Heritage Area

Global Change Biology, 2020
The increased occurrence of extreme climate events, such as marine heatwaves (MHWs), has resulted in substantial ecological impacts worldwide. To date, metrics of thermal stress within marine systems have focussed on coral communities, and less is known ...
S. Strydom, Katherine J. Murray, S. Wilson, B. Huntley, Michael J. Rule, M. Heithaus, C. Bessey, G. Kendrick, D. Burkholder, T. Holmes, M. Fraser, Katherine Zdunic   +11 more
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Management issues and challenges of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Saudi Arabia

Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2020
Saudi Arabia has five UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS) and plans to submit additional sites for inscription in the future. With the current level of tourist visitation to the country and potential new influx, this creates major impacts for sites that ...
Abdulelah Al-Tokhais, B. Thapa
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World Heritage

2012
Published on the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this thematic collection of case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage sites and their Outstanding Universal Value in the context of sustainable development. The case studies describe twenty-six thematically, typologically and regionally diverse World Heritage ...
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World Heritage and Tourism

2019
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the phenomenon of World Heritage tourism through a critical, global perspective that encompasses both supply and demand.Individual chapters critically engage with four main topics crucial to this subject area.
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Heritage Futures, Prefiguration and World Heritage

2020
Heritage futures are about the roles of heritage in managing the relations between present and future societies, e.g. through anticipation and planning. This topic has only rarely been addressed in the heritage sector and its literature (Högberg et al. 2017), although this is now changing (see especially Harrison et al. forthcoming; Holtorf and Högberg
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World Heritage

2021
Bref aperçu et définition du droit international de la préservation des patrimoines mondiaux en droit ...
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Holistic climate change adaptation for World Heritage

Nature Sustainability, 2023
B. Lin, J. Melbourne‐Thomas, M. Hopkins, M. Dunlop, N. Macgregor, S. Merson, Caitlin Vertigan, R. Hill   +7 more
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Digital twin applications on cultural world heritage sites in China: A state-of-the-art overview

Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2023
Xinyuan Dang, Wanqin Liu, Qingyuan Hong, Yibo Wang, Xuemin Chen   +4 more
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The World Politics of World Heritage

2004
What follows is a case study of a single concept, world heritage. It looks at the construction of modernist heritage politics on a global scale, and at attempts to critique and countercolonize these efforts in communalist terms. It could have been a case study of any number of issue-areas.
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Does World Heritage inscription promote regional tourism? Evidence from China

, 2023
Cheng Zhang, Wei Cheng, Wanli Zhang
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