scholarly journals Towards Governance or the Management of Cultural Landscapes

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kurz ◽  
Gisa Ruland ◽  
Sibylla Zech
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Planning Culture

Many (World Heritage) cultural landscapes are a living environment for thousands of inhabitants, visitors, entrepreneurs, farmers and other land users. In order to manage such landscapes we have to consider the legal framework and the reality of the regional planning culture. The ‘landscape of regional players’ consists of a wide range of stakeholders. How should regions tackle natural and cultural heritage as an integrated part of regional development? The discussion of Austria’s Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut World Heritage region involves vertical and horizontal dimensions of governance, including politics, administration, private businesses and civil society.

Cultural landscapes: exploring local people's understanding of cultural practices as “heritage”

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Settimini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Decision Making Processes

PurposeA vital testimony of human presence landscape is recognised and protected by international, national and local documents as an identity resource and one of the factors that contribute to the identity building processes (UNESCO, 1994; European Landscape Convention, 2000). The validation of landscape as cultural heritage presents not only new challenges but also opportunities for the heritage sector. In fact, a landscape plays a dual role: as part of the cultural heritage, which has to be preserved for its values, and as a “living” site, where individuals and groups live and work. This implies that the acknowledgement of its cultural significance should not be exclusively determined on the basis of discipline-driven frameworks and benchmarks but should rather be the result of a shared awareness within local communities.Design/methodology/approachThrough the analysis of the vineyard landscape of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato (Italy), the author discusses how the selection of a World Heritage site driven by “outstanding universal values” risks presenting a top-down approach to heritage processes.FindingsIn this article, the author explores how people living in this cultural landscape articulate their understandings of heritage values, and she addresses issues concerning their participation in decision-making processes, questioning whose values and meanings do the “outstanding universal value” legitimise or not.Originality/valueWhat the author argues is that the World Heritage listing's focus on extraordinary values risks constructing heritage around a consensus that privileges only some actors, whose voices and stories enliven the prestige of the wine production of this cultural landscape, omitting other values, memories and practices from the identity and meaning making processes. Does the identification and representation processes validated through World Heritage status capture how a landscape is understood by individuals and groups living within it? If not, how do these differences affect people's engagement? A further point of discussion is whether individuals and groups want to be engaged in decision-making processes and on which terms.

scholarly journals Elena Belokurova, Dmitry Vorobyev, Promotion of World Heritage Values: Experiences in St. Petersburg and Other Cities of Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Elena Belokurova ◽  
Dmitry Vorobyev
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Local Population ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
World Cultural Heritage

The paper reflects the experiences of the social movements, civic initiatives and NGOs in St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia as well as in some other post-Soviet countries, aimed at the promotion and raising awareness of local populations about the World Heritage value in their cities. These efforts are needed, because the outstanding universal values of the historic centres of St. Petersburg and other cities are threatened by illegal construction, misguided urban planning, neglect and a lack of public attention; churches and cultural landscapes suffer from poor restoration, development pressure and an unregulated tourism boom. These effects are often possible because the almost most local population has no knowledge about the UNESCO World Heritage status and its implications. As a result, they are not sufficiently able to speak out for the protection of their site, and do not know how the status of world cultural heritage can help them. Moreover, the population has little understanding of both the cultural value for their own community and what it means to be a World Heritage in general, leading to an insufficient realization of the potentials in the status of world cultural heritage.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF CULTURE, TOURISM AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN UKRAINE: OPPORTUNITIES AND PROSPECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (40) ◽  
pp. 620-630
Author(s):  
Y. Dashchuk ◽  
L. Matviichuk ◽  
М. Lepky ◽  
S. Sidoruk
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
State Institution ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Common Interests

Abstract. In the article the main sources of funding for cultural, tourism and creative industries in Ukraine were defined. The importance of building effective financial support for initiatives in this area was justified. The activities of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation as a state institution responsible for the preservation of cultural heritage and development of Ukrainian culture in the context of current world trends were also analyzed. It was determined that the amount of funds allocated to the sphere of culture occupies a larger share in the budgets of most EU countries, compared to Ukraine. The importance of creative industries as a tool to intensify tourism activities at the regional and national levels was revealed. It was proved that the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation is an institution designed to create a new model of competitive promotion and multi-vector support of initiatives in the field of culture and creative industries. In these industries professionals, institutions and communities — the main groups of beneficiaries — act as partners for generation. new meanings and preservation of cultural capital necessary for the dynamic development of society. The analysis of state strategic documents, in particular the S­­tate Strategy for Regional Development 2020, showed that the areas of probable common interests of tourism, culture and creative industries are quite clearly defined and relate to historical and cultural heritage, museums, historical and monumental arts, architecture, archeology; original folk culture, customs, traditions, rituals, including national minorities. The new state strategy for regional development — 2027 focuses on the role of national and regional cultural and tourist routes. Sectoral strategies and international programs operating in Ukraine provide a detailed description of the area of probable common interests of culture and tourism. It was proved that an effectively built state financial support for initiatives in the field of culture, tourism and creative industries promotes cooperation between government, business and civil society, creates favorable conditions for effective and efficient investment, ensuring transparent, effective dialogue between all stakeholders to achieve stable results in the creation of a cultural product, the development of civil society and the internationalization of Ukrainian culture. Keywords: tourism financing, financial cultural policy, creative industries, project management, grant activities, budget funds, tourism development. JEL Classification L83, R5, Z18 Formulas: 0; fig.: 3; tabl.: 9; bibl.: 12.

Part II Substantive Aspects, Ch.12 Landscape as Cultural Heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Strecker Amy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
International Level ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
The Public ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Outstanding Universal Value

This chapter examines the protection of landscape in international cultural heritage law. Since the inclusion of ‘cultural landscapes’ within the scope of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in 1992, landscape has gained increasing importance at the international level. However, given the focus of the World Heritage Convention on landscapes of ‘outstanding universal value’, it was not until the adoption of the European Landscape Convention (ELC) in 2000 that landscape became democratized. The ELC conceives of landscape above all as a people’s landscape and, accordingly, provides for the active participation of the public in the formulation of plans and polices. It focuses not only on outstanding places but also on the everyday and degraded landscapes where most people live and work. This ostensibly brings ‘landscape’ back to its early etymological origins—when it corresponded to a close-up, lived-in perspective—and has a number of implications for human rights and democracy.

scholarly journals IDEE I ZAŁOŻENIA KONWENCJI O OCHRONIE DZIEDZICTWA KULTURALNEGO I NATURALNEGO I ICH REALIZACJA W POLSCE Z PERSPEKTYWY POLSKIEGO KOMITETU DO SPRAW UNESCO

2017 ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Sławomir Ratajski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Historic Monument ◽  
Wide Range

Over the years, the implementation of the Convention in Poland has revealed a number of issues related to protection of heritage in line with the patterns worked out at the UNESCO forum, and resulting from the incomplete adaptation of our legal system for the protection of historic monuments and sites, insufficient public awareness and the difficulty of incorporating historical sites into modern economic development strategies. The Polish UNESCO Committee addressed the above issues with a series of papers accompanying conferences participated in by a wide range of experts, decision-makers and local government activists at various levels. Observations concerning the application of the 1972 Convention, in particular with regard to legal protection of the world heritage sites in Poland, and the need to implement the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the 2011 UNESCO Recommendations on the Historical Urban Landscape, have convinced the Committee to review Polish legislation in terms of protection of heritage from the perspective of the UNESCO normative acts ratified by Poland. In 2014, we published a study on “Why and how to protect the cultural heritage ina modern way,” edited by the then-Chairman of the Polish UNESCO Committee, profesor Andrzej Rottermund. The paper presented a wide range of conditions for application of the existing legal provisions and expected changes, provided by various institutions and experts in the field of protection of tangible and intangible heritage and respect for cultural diversity. The need to developa new comprehensive law regulating protection of cultural heritage in Poland and taking into account the provisions of the UNESCO Convention was emphasised. What is particularly grave in application of the principles of the 1972 Convention is the lack of appropriate tools for managing world heritage sites. This includes, in particular: lack of legislation that would effectively protect the borderlines of the properties being inscribed and their buffer zones, view corridors and panoramas of sites of great historical significance. The lack of proper inclusion of local communities in the heritage management processes is a significant issue, according to the message of the 2005 Faro Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society.Article entitled “The Social Dimension of the Cultural and Natural Landscape”, issued in 2015, discusses issues concerning immediate vicinity of properties of great historical significance. It is stated that landscape is an integral entity consisting of natural elements and cultural heritage, which is understood as both tangible and intangible heritage. Consideration should be given to how notions occurring at the UNESCO forum evolved. Particular attention should be also paid to shifting from the concept of a historic monument to the concept of heritage, and the concept of historic monument protection to the concept of heritage management. It is also important to take into account the need for sustainable protection of the natural and cultural values of landscapes, both urban and rural.

The 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Strecker
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Spatial Justice ◽  
Landscape Governance ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Conceptual Dependency ◽  
Landscape Protection

Chapter 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. It then discusses the typology of cultural landscapes, issues of representativeness and the implications of the Word Heritage system for landscape protection globally, as well as locally. In this regard, a number of cases are analysed which, on the one hand, support the World Heritage Convention’s instrumental role in landscape governance, but which on the other, highlight the problems involved in ascribing World Heritage status to living landscapes from a spatial justice perspective.

Rights of the Child

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asha Bajpai
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Legal Definition ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Government ◽  
Definition Of

The chapter commences with the change in the perspective and approach relating to children from welfare to rights approach. It then deals with the legal definition of child in India under various laws. It gives a brief overview of the present legal framework in India. It states briefly the various policies and plans, and programmes of the Government of India related to children. International law on the rights of the child is enumerated and a summary of the important judgments by Indian courts are also included. The chapter ends with pointing out the role of civil society organizations in dealing with the rights of the child and a mention of challenges ahead.

scholarly journals Intangible cultural heritage: a benefit to climate-displaced and host communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gül Aktürk ◽  
Martha Lerski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Resilient Communities

AbstractClimate change is borderless, and its impacts are not shared equally by all communities. It causes an imbalance between people by creating a more desirable living environment for some societies while erasing settlements and shelters of some others. Due to floods, sea level rise, destructive storms, drought, and slow-onset factors such as salinization of water and soil, people lose their lands, homes, and natural resources. Catastrophic events force people to move voluntarily or involuntarily. The relocation of communities is a debatable climate adaptation measure which requires utmost care with human rights, ethics, and psychological well-being of individuals upon the issues of discrimination, conflict, and security. As the number of climate-displaced populations grows, the generations-deep connection to their rituals, customs, and ancestral ties with the land, cultural practices, and intangible cultural heritage become endangered. However, intangible heritage is often overlooked in the context of climate displacement. This paper presents reflections based on observations regarding the intangible heritage of voluntarily displaced communities. It begins by examining intangible heritage under the threat of climate displacement, with place-based examples. It then reveals intangible heritage as a catalyst to building resilient communities by advocating for the cultural values of indigenous and all people in climate action planning. It concludes the discussion by presenting the implications of climate displacement in existing intangible heritage initiatives. This article seeks to contribute to the emerging policies of preserving intangible heritage in the context of climate displacement.

scholarly journals A quantitative description of the spatial–temporal distribution and evolution pattern of world cultural heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Yongqi ◽  
Yang Ruixia ◽  
Wang Pu ◽  
Yang Anlin ◽  
Chen Guolong
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Evolution Pattern ◽  
Modelling Analysis ◽  
Time Series Modelling ◽  
World Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Peak Value

AbstractDepicting the temporal and spatial evolution pattern of global world cultural heritage systematically and finely is the basis of heritage recognition and protection. In this study, 869 world cultural heritage inscriptions (through 2019) were selected as the research objects, and the times and types of each World Heritage site were manually annotated from more than 5000 pieces of data. Through time series modelling, the advantages of and changes in heritage declarations in different regions and periods were analysed, and the impact of heritage strategy on the number of heritage sites included in each region was evaluated. The results showed that the implementation of heritage policy greatly impacted each region, especially on the number of heritage sites in Asia and the Pacific region. Using the heritage era to carry out modelling analysis, from the perspective of the integrity of historical heritage cultural types, it is considered that there may be cultural heritage sites in the Caribbean and Latin America that have not been given enough attention. The modelling analysis results of era attributes can support the fairness of heritage determination. By calculating the frequency and peak value of heritage sites at the national scale, the frequency and peak value of each country in the top 10 list are used to characterize the ability of national declarations of cultural heritage and reveal the differences in the ability of each member country to declare heritage sites and the heritage era. By calculating the distribution density of the heritage era, this study finds that the world’s cultural heritage is not concentrated in the Middle Ages (600–1450) but the periods of Reformation and Exploration (1450–1700) and Progress and Empire (1850–1914). The above analysis shows that there are imbalances and strategic adjustment effects concerning regions, countries, eras and types in World Heritage list development. The composition types of heritage are complex, and the combination types have obvious changes in different periods. It is suggested that the strategy of world cultural heritage collection should be further optimized to fully guarantee the balance of regions, countries and types, and the heritage value should be fully considered in heritage protection with more diversity and complexity of types.

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