scholarly journals Public preferences for heritage conservation strategies: a choice modelling approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Throsby ◽  
Anita Zednik ◽  
Jorge E. Araña
Keyword(s):  
Economic Value ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Choice Modelling ◽  
Public Preferences ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
Assessment Procedures ◽  
Modelling Approach

AbstractStudies aiming at valuing cultural and natural heritage projects are often focussed on one or only a few sites, whereas planning decisions concerning the allocation of public funds to heritage conservation deal with classes of heritage rather than single sites. In addition, such planning decisions are almost always concerned with non-monetary values that need to be incorporated into assessment procedures if the total value of alternative strategies is to be estimated. In this paper, we put forward and estimate models to address both of these issues within a choice-modelling framework. The method is developed in the context of conservation of a particular class of cultural heritage, namely major historic buildings in a city or country. We report results from a discrete choice experiment to assess public preferences in which the choices are alternative conservation programs and the attributes are dimensions of the programs’ cultural and economic value. The model is estimated from survey data using several flexible econometric specifications. We show that the methods developed can be used to obtain robust estimates of the economic value of this category of buildings. We also find a significant contribution of all aspects of cultural value to the formation of conservation preferences and the public’s willingness to pay.

Open, User, and Smart Innovation in Cultural Firms

2014 ◽  
pp. 200-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Della Corte
Keyword(s):  
Economic Value ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
Cultural Sector

The cultural sector is made of a variety of firms (both public and private) whose primary economic value derives from their cultural value (Flin, Mearns, O'Connor, & Bryden, 2000). The focus in this chapter is on the organizations that manage cultural sites, with a specific attention to the interactions between cultural sector and tourism industry. Nowadays, the competitive environment is more and more complex, owing to the globalization as well as to the interactions of this sector with others, so the cultural actors have to enrich their cultural offer in order to meet customers' needs effectively and efficiently. For this reason, innovation is acquiring a crucial role in a marketing approach for cultural firms in order to promote and distribute value through their offers. Managers of cultural firms are generally oriented to the preservation rather then to the promotion and valorization of cultural resources. Innovation, in its different perspectives, can be the key component for the creation of a new approach in the offer of cultural products, aiming at catching external opportunities through a continuous, interactive and innovative relationship with all the actors of the destination in order to gain sustainable competitive advantage.

Oil, gold, stones: cultural value in Italian cultural policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-15
Author(s):  
Alice Borchi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Cultural Assets ◽  
Italian Government ◽  
The People

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the concept of cultural value promoted by the Italian government between 2008 and 2018. Furthermore, it aims at setting the scope for further research and debate on the issue of cultural value in Italian cultural policy by questioning market-driven understanding of value. Design/methodology/approach In order to do so, it examines the rhetoric of Italian policymakers, with a particular focus on the people who have covered the role of Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities over this 10-year span, and the policies they have implemented. The various nuances of the concept of valorizzazione are studied by analysing different pathways employed by the Italian government and the values underpinning them, with a particular focus on the abandonment of heritage sites. Findings What emerges from this research is the centrality of the economic value of culture; however, the economic impact of Italian cultural assets is always presented as a potential that has to be unlocked by implementing policies of valorizzazione, a term that has a double meaning of promotion and exploitation (Belfiore, 2006). Originality/value This paper presents an original approach to understanding the formation and promotion of cultural value at the level of governmental policy in the context of contemporary cultural policy in Italy. In particular, it evidences how the centrality of the economic value of culture has remained unscathed despite the rapid change of governments that has characterised Italian politics in the last 10 years.

Ontario's heritage bridge program

1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-244
Author(s):  
David J. Cuming
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Government Program ◽  
Major Aspect ◽  
Bridge Program ◽  
Unique Aspect

Conservation of the built environment is becoming a major aspect of planning activity in the 1980s. Current economic conditions have necessitated rehabilitation and renovation of many buildings and structures rather than their replacement. In response to these conditions the Ontario Ministries of Transportation and Communications and of Citizenship and Culture have initiated the Heritage Bridge Program. A key component is the establishment of a list of heritage road bridges. There is a presumption that listed bridges should be conserved where feasible. Criteria are utilized to evaluate bridges for prospective nomination to the list. Conservation strategies are recommended for protecting those bridges listed. Complementary funding provisions have been agreed to by the Ministries to encourage listed bridge conservation. The program, the first of its kind in Canada, is a systematic and comprehensive way of protecting a unique aspect of Ontario's engineering heritage. Key words: historic bridges, engineering heritage, conservation, rehabilitation, evaluation criteria, Ontario government program.

Weird Music: Tension and Reconciliation in Cultural-Economic Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Value ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Exchange Relationships ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
Music Venues ◽  
Cultural Similarity ◽  
Depth Interviews

How do music venues reconcile competing desires for popularity and uniqueness in their bookings? According to 25 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with the staff of licensed and unlicensed music venues, gatekeepers tended to prefer ‘weird’ music in terms of unconventionality and even obscurity rather than focusing on cultural similarity through genre conventions. Respondents described at least three ways to reconcile this internal tension of cultural-economic value. A few licensed venue administrators took popularity within the ‘underground’ as an index of value. Others constructed a narrative of building bands from obscurity to success in terms of both economic and cultural value. However, most respondents described strategies of differentiation between cultural and economic value in their economic relationships. This final way of understanding the cultural economy extends Zelizer’s theory of relational economics to find that economic actors do not only differentiate transactions according to social ties but also may differentiate their exchange relationships according to opposing value judgments.

Conservation strategies for Africa's large mammals

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 459 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hanks
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Large Mammals ◽  
Isolated Populations ◽  
African Mammals ◽  
Wide Range

Africa’s large mammals are conserved for their aesthetic, scientific and economic values. Many of these species face a gloomy future precipitated by a combination of factors directly and indirectly influenced by the activities of man, including habitat loss, overexploitation, poor management of designated protected areas, and the vulnerability of small isolated populations. Africa’s designated protected areas and biodiversity hotspots are also under threat, highlighting the importance of embracing community participation to address accelerating poverty and malnutrition. Innovative strategies are required for the conservation of Africa’s mammals, such as the integration of a wide range of species in the production landscape, including the farming community. Transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) have been established with the combined objectives of conserving biodiversity, creating new jobs in the tourism and wildlife industry, and promoting a culture of peace. These areas extend far beyond traditional national parks, providing opportunities for integrating large mammals into sustainable land-use practices, at the same time as addressing some of the continent’s more pressing socioeconomic needs. Research on African mammals will inevitably have to change direction to accommodate the growing threats and changed circumstances. Priorities will include the identification of corridors associated with TFCA establishment, the determination of the economic value of certain species in consumptive use programmes, research on contraception as a management option in restricted areas, and further work on the indirect use value of species. There will also be worthwhile opportunities to be pursued with ex situ conservation programmes, but these need to be focussed more efficiently.

scholarly journals Finding Common Ground between United Kingdom Based and Chinese Approaches to Earthen Heritage Conservation

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Richards ◽  
Yinghong Wang ◽  
Scott Orr ◽  
Heather Viles
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
International Collaborations ◽  
The World ◽  
International Issues

Earthen heritage is one of the oldest and universal forms of heritage but its conservation poses many challenges. Establishing international collaborations could provide an efficient, sustainable mechanism to increase knowledge exchange, aiding the development of earthen heritage conservation strategies around the world. However, perceived differences in how Eastern and Western countries value earthen heritage and develop conservation strategies can pose challenges for establishing collaborations. To understand these perceived differences and whether they hinder collaborations, this paper compares British and Chinese heritage conservation policy and practice and then reports the results from an innovative workshop examining the approaches of 13 Chinese and 13 UK based heritage experts and researchers towards earthen heritage conservation. Workshop participants undertook bilingual discussions and completed a co-created questionnaire available in English and Mandarin. Both groups identified historic value as the most important value and maintenance of authenticity and integrity, need for scientific research and site scale conservation as vital considerations for conservation strategies. This study found that to understand the potential for collaboration, individual perspectives need consideration as well as policies and practices. This innovative bilingual, discussion-based approach has potential to aid collaborations for diverse international issues from wildlife conservation to cross-boundary pollution and climate change.

Selling National Value at the Auction Market: The London and Dublin Markets for Irish Art

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Herrero
Keyword(s):  
Economic Value ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Art Markets ◽  
Auction Markets ◽  
Auction Market ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
Irish Art

This article explores how nationality is articulated as a form of art value in the art market, where art is defined in two related ways: instrumentally, in terms of its economic value, and culturally, by defining its meaning and significance. Focusing on the auction market of Irish art in London and in Dublin, and drawing upon interviews with auctioneers in both capitals, it investigates how nationality is produced and marketed as a form of cultural value for Irish art, comparing the specific dynamics of this process in both London and Dublin auction markets. Whilst the findings in this article agree with existing literature on the economic and cultural forms of art value prevalent in art markets, they add to the literature by arguing that the cultural, national element of value-making for Irish art is very pronounced.

Enhancing our Heritage: Conservation for 21st Century New Zealanders: Ways forward from the Tahi Group of Concerned Scientists

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 256 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Craig ◽  
Henrik Moller ◽  
Denis Saunders ◽  
Morgan Williams
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Ecosystem Protection ◽  
Responsibility Of Government ◽  
Reserve System ◽  
New Zealanders

New Zealanders are constantly reminded of their degraded environment and the threatened status of their unique plants, animals and ecosystems. Instead of presenting these as symptoms of unsustainable living and the socio-economic system that rewards this, there has been a propensity to treat these as independent problems needing individual solutions with insufficient resources allocated to implement the solutions. For example, conservation of native biota and ecosystem protection are viewed as biological problems that are mainly the responsibility of government to be addressed through a government-based reserve system. In contrast, the Tahi Group view a diverse native biota and healthy ecosystems as essential elements of New Zealanders’ heritage that require social engagement and innovative economic reform. Most of all, the New Zealand conservation paradigm needs to be broadened to encourage collaboration of a wider range of stakeholders and land owners and the application of new tools for learning how best to reverse ongoing decline of native biota and degradation of ecosystems. Diversification of conservation strategies has begun in small “bottomup” ways in communities, organizations, businesses and institutions, powered by commitment and energy of many individual citizens. These strategies, where monitored, demonstrate effective and efficient actions that inspires hope for a future that fully integrates conservation as a normal and an essential component of a prosperous economy and healthy South Pacific society with little or no government input. We make a plea to move from the constant reiteration of conservation problems to a focus on developing and implementing solutions to these problems with the engagement of all New Zealanders.

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