scholarly journals Saving the Great Barrier Reef from disaster, media then and now

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerrie Foxwell-Norton ◽  
Libby Lester
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

The Great Barrier Reef is the most recognizable of the Australian properties on United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List. At the time of its inscription in 1981, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature noted that ‘… if only one coral reef site in the world were to be chosen for the World Heritage List, the Great Barrier Reef is the site to be chosen’. The listing followed the ‘Save the Reef’ campaign, which ran through the 1960s and 1970s and highlighted threats from rapid industrialization and a nation riding a resources boom. Nevertheless, in recent years, the Reef has teetered on being named a ‘World Heritage Site in Danger’, with similar economic conditions driving its deterioration. This article juxtaposes recent media activism to protect the Reef against the earlier campaign in order to compare and better understand how these campaigns engaged publics and policy makers by representing and communicating threats, and concludes by considering their capacity to influence long-term conservation policy.

scholarly journals Aurora Petan, The World Heritage Convention and Romania. Case Study: the Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-149
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Reactive Monitoring

Romania has signed the World Heritage Convention in 1990. Its process of implementation was carried out along two decades, but the resulting legal framework does not grant at present the appropriate protection and management of the sites inscribed on the World Heritage List. Moreover, even if steps have been taken towards the implementation of the Convention, the compliance with it is far from being a reality. This study brings forth the fact that in the case of the serial World Heritage Site “Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains”, there is a twofold non-compliance with the Convention. First, there is a substantive non-compliance, resulting from the almost complete dereliction of the site: in the last 20 years, there was no management system and 5 of its 6 component parts have been abandoned. Secondly, there is procedural noncompliance, resulting from the fake reporting to the World Heritage Centre, as well as from the omission of some reports. The real situation has recently surfaced, due to the intervention of the civil society, and the World Heritage Centre triggered the reactive monitoring process for this site. At the same time, the possible causes of this non-compliance have been analysed in view of identifying urgent solutions meant to re-establish the balance with respect to the Convention. The main directions of action proposed are the improvement of the legal framework and the adoption of appropriate heritage policies.

scholarly journals Assessment of Local People Opinion After World Heritage Site Designation, Case Study: Historic City of Yazd, Iran

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1739-1747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Nasrolahi ◽  
Jean-Michel Roux ◽  
Leila Ghasvarian Jahromi ◽  
Mahmoudreza Khalili
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Local People ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World

Local participation in the cultural heritage conservation has always been a concern since the Venice Charter (1964). It seems the assumption of the World Heritage Center, and particularly their State Parties, is that local people living in a nominated site are willing to inscribe their properties on the World Heritage List. This research examines the points of view of a local community living in the buffer zone of the Historic City of Yazd in five categories: Willingness, quality of life, decision-making, benefits, and awareness after the designation as World Heritage Site. The main hypotheses are that local people did not agree to inscribe their properties on the World Heritage List, and their quality of life has not changed after registering. The methodology is based on both qualitative and quantitative methods by interviewing 400 people of both genders and different ages. The results show that the majority of local people living in the buffer zone were not satisfied to be on the list. In addition, more than 80% mentioned that the quality of life did not change at all after the inscription. There was a misunderstanding about the role of national and international organizations in World Heritage management and conservation among the local community.

scholarly journals Russian estate as a promising UNESCO World Heritage Site: on the example of Leo Tolstoy’s "Yasnaya Polyana"

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
M. Kuleshova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World

The Russian estate is a characteristic phenomenon of Russian culture, which had a significant impact on the images of Russia and the formation of its cultural landscape. At the same time, this cultural phenomenon is not yet represented in the World Heritage List for Russia. The article reveals the main values of Leo Tolstoy’s estate Yasnaya Polyana, which are of universal importance; presents interconnectedness and interdependence of its natural and cultural characteristics. It is stated, that the territorial complex of Leo Tolstoy’s estate Yasnaya Polyana fully complies with the UNESCO criteria for assigning objects to the of World Heritage.

scholarly journals The Geography of UNESCO World Heritage Site Descriptions: Does It Promote International Dialog?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Costa Baciu
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
New Method ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) undertakes to recognize, list, and collectively present those places around the world that are of outstanding value to all mankind and that must be protected from threads such as armed conflict, deliberate destruction, economic pressure, natural disasters, and climate change. Through the listing of such “world heritage sites,” UNESCO intends to document and protect the diversity of cultures and natural phenomena around the globe, and to promote international dialog. The sites may be classified as cultural or natural, or both, although most sites are cultural. As part of its listing, the UNESCO also includes short descriptions of each site. These descriptions are a key element in the public-facing listing of the recognized world heritage sites. The texts reflect the listing in a more nuanced and elaborate form (UNESCO 2021). As a literary genre, the site descriptions may fall somewhere between encyclopedia entries and travel-guide site descriptions, as they are intended both for matters of overview and as information for travelers. The UNESCO world heritage list was met with much success and was welcomed by broad audiences around the globe. Given the importance of the mission to promote international dialog, we have studied the world heritage site descriptions through a new method of geographical mapping (Baciu 2019, 2020, 2021). We were interested in exploring whether, through this new method, we can detect an international dialog, as promoted by UNESCO through the world heritage list and site descriptions. In this present essay, we discuss the results. UNESCO does promote an international dialog that we are able to detect using our method. The geographical connections that we detect are very close to other known global activity. We discuss in particu-lar the similarity between our mapping results obtained from texts published by UNESCO and global movement as decoded from airplane condensation trails (contrails). Both, text and air travel, reveal similar connection pathways across the globe, which suggests that text and air travel have evolved together rather than independently.

scholarly journals La destrucción de patrimonio: arte rupestre en la península Burrup / The Destruction of Heritage: Rock Art in the Burrup Peninsula

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Antonio González Zarandona
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

ABSTRACTThe destruction of rock art in the Burrup Peninsula, performed by several mammoth industries strategically located in the Peninsula since the 1960s, allows me to analyse the concept of heritage within a global history of art and find meaning in the difficult task of interpreting rock art. The Burrup Peninsula not only hosts the largest rock art site in the world, but also one of the largest deposits of natural gas, iron ore and salt. As a consequence, the land (sacred to the Indigenous people), becomes extremely important in order to sustain the booming economy of Australia. In this difficult negotiation between heritage and progress the rock art is embedded with new meanings and the heritage becomes ephemeral. Failing to include the site in the World Heritage Site list created by UNESCO, the roles of identity and memory are contested by the two groups represented on each side of the debate: on one hand, the Aboriginal Traditional owners and the archaeologists; on the other, the Australian government and the cultural establishment that denies the rock art an aesthetic significance by considering it "primitive" and "archaic". The debate becomes even more pertinent after realizing that the Australian government has flagged other buildings and natural parks as World Heritage Sites, while the rock art in the Burrup Peninsula is catalogued as national, but not World, Heritage. As a result, the concept of heritage can be defined on several levels: local, regional, national and international.RESUMENLa destrucción de arte rupestre en la península Burrup, llevada a cabo por varias industrias colosales, estratégicamente localizadas en la península desde la década de los años sesenta, me permite analizar el concepto de patrimonio y encontrar un significado en la difícil tarea de interpretar arte rupestre. La península Burrup no sólo alberga el sitio arqueológico de arte rupestre más grande del mundo, sino que también uno de los depósitos más grandes de gas, mineral de hierro y sal. Como consecuencia, la tierra (sagrada para la comunidad aborigen), se ha convertido en un punto álgido ya que sostiene la economía creciente de Australia. En esta difícil negociación entre patrimonio y progreso, el arte rupestre encuentra nuevos significados y el patrimonio se torna efímero. Al no estar el sitio incluido en la lista de Patrimonio Mundial auspiciada por la UNESCO, los roles de identidad y memoria son impugnados por los dos grupos que representan ambos lados del debate: por un lado, los dueños tradicionales aborígenes y los arqueólogos; por el otro, el gobierno australiano y el es-tablecimiento cultural que le niega al arte rupestre una significancia estética al considerarlo “primitivo” y “arcaico”. El debate se torna cada vez más pertinente al darnos cuenta de que el gobierno australiano ha propuesto otros sitios y parques naturales para su introducción en la lista de Patrimonio Mundial, mientras que el arte rupestre de la península Burrup está catalogado como patrimonio nacional, mas no mundial. Como resultado, el concepto de patrimonio se puede definir en diferentes niveles: local, nacional e internacional.

Management of Water Quality in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Woodley
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Management Issue ◽  
Reef System ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
Coral Reef System

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. It is recognised and appreciated worldwide as a unique environment and for this reason has been inscribed on the World Heritage List. The Reef is economically-important to Queensland and Australia, supporting substantial tourism and fishing industries. Management of the Great Barrier Reef to ensure conservation of its natural qualities in perpetuity is achieved through the establishment of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The maintenance of water quality to protect the reef and the industries which depend on it is becoming an increasingly important management issue requiring better knowledge and possibly new standards of treatment and discharge.

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