scholarly journals Cultural Heritage and Wind Turbines – A Method to Reduce Conflicts in Landscape Planning and Management: Studies in the German Ore Mountains

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 652-672
Author(s):  
Patrick Wieduwilt ◽  
Peter Wirth
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Goal Conflict ◽  
Algorithmic Approach ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Visual Relations ◽  
Goal Conflicts

Abstract Landscape policy, management and planning can be interpreted as involving a dualism of conservation and transformation goals. Serious conflicts can emerge when conservation and development goals are contradictory. This paper reflects on the goal conflict between the establishment of a world heritage destination with 39 individual elements and the development of wind power facilities in the German Ore Mountains. In order to meet these challenges, the authors created a GIS-based so-called “Multiple-Visual-Link Method”. By calculating viewsheds with a tailor-made GIS application and defining distance zones (short, middle, long), the user is able to estimate the visual relations between the two types of subjects in a bigger area with a favorable cost-benefit relation. The compact algorithmic approach leads to solid results which can be translated into planning recommendations. There is also potential for it to be applied to similar goal conflicts.

scholarly journals Strengthening Efforts to Protect and Safeguard the Industrial Cultural Heritage in Montilla-Moriles (PDO). Characterisation of Historic Wineries

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5791
Author(s):  
Antonia Merino-Aranda ◽  
Isabel Luisa Castillejo-González ◽  
Almudena Velo-Gala ◽  
Francisco de Paula Montes-Tubío ◽  
Francisco-Javier Mesas-Carrascosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Wine Industry ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Human Society ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Wine Making ◽  
Protected Designation Of Origin ◽  
Development Goals

Industrial heritage is linked to the cultural processes that human society sets through the traces from the past. The conservation and dissemination of this industrial–cultural heritage are crucial for sustainable urban development, and positively influences the transition to resilient and sustainable cities. The wine industry around Montilla has suffered as a result of a sharp reduction of the vineyard area in the last 25 years. Wineries, as one of the historic typologies of wine-making facilities in the Montilla-Moriles Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), as well as their materials and construction techniques, are a reference in the agricultural landscape of Montilla. Many historic wineries are the result of the abandonment and cessation of the wine industry. These buildings are linked to the agrarian activity in this area, mostly wine-making, although in some cases, they coexist with similar production processes, such as milling the fruit of the olive grove. This research characterises and analyses four historic wineries in the Montilla-Moriles PDO, which represent an example of architecture in the wine-making transformation during the 19th–20th centuries. This manuscript contributes to the attainment of some objectives set in one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), protecting and disseminating the industrial cultural heritage in Montilla-Moriles.

The living wage as an income range for decent work and life

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 875-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Yao ◽  
Jane Parker ◽  
James Arrowsmith ◽  
Stuart C. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Living Wage ◽  
Sustainable Livelihood ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subjective Perceptions ◽  
Development Goals

Purpose A “living” wage (LW) is conventionally defined as enabling meaningful participation in society above subsistence through, for example, recreation, supporting a family, and savings. There is increasing debate over LWs due to growing inequality, rising living costs and welfare reform but this remains largely framed by the econometric cost-benefit parameters that apply to minimum wage regulation. The capabilities approach advocated by Sen (1999) offers a different perspective that is inclusive of choice, contingencies and the inter-connections between quality of (paid) work and private life. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts this framework and utilises a qualitative exploration of the narratives of 606 New Zealand employees to understand perceived wage effectiveness. The results suggest that a focus on a specific LW rate might be conceptually limiting, in comparison to a LW range. Findings First, the findings indicate that there is a pivot range in which people move from self-assessed “survival” to “decent” income. Second, a LW may have more than a simply monetary effect in better meeting employees’ living costs; it can also improve well-being through subjective perceptions of valued freedoms to do with job satisfaction, equity and security. Originality/value The results thus draw attention to a wider notion of a LW in terms of personal and family well-being, utilising a capabilities approach, with implications for organisational practice, policy and theory concerning sustainable livelihood and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Peace

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Fabio Carbone ◽  
Luiz Oosterbeek
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Peace And Conflict Studies ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Development Goals

On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an Agenda for Sustainable Development establishing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030, on which states, civil society, and the private sector are called to contribute. In this context, tourism, which is based on billions of encounters between people of diverse cultural backgrounds, is hailed as the industry that can foster tolerance and multicultural and interfaith understanding, laying the groundwork for more peaceful societies. This chapter critically analyses the current discourse on tourism and peace, exploring opportunities and limitations. The authors affirm the urgency for a more complex approach by informing the debate with concepts, theories, and ideas coming from areas different than tourism (cultural anthropology, history, cultural heritage, cultural diplomacy, peace and conflict studies, peace education and sustainability science). The authors focus mainly on the role of cultural heritage and its management as the central hinge in the association between tourism and peace.

ICTs and Indigenous Languages as Agents for the Actualization of Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Festus Prosper Olise
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Bad Leadership

This paper advocates for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and indigenous languages for the actualization of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria because both tools are capable of transforming the rural and urban populace. It explores the MDGs so as to unravel the ways ICTs and indigenous languages can facilitate the speedy actualization of MDGs in Nigeria, a country with peculiar cultural heritage and with over 750 indigenous languages. It also analyzes some of the contending constraints confronting Nigeria from actualizing MDGs such as corruption, extreme poverty, lack of attention to indigenous languages, high cost of ICTs which are products of bad leadership. The effective use of Nigeria’s different indigenous languages and ICTs, it maintains, remains the most effective way towards educating Nigerians and achieving the MDGs in Nigeria come 2015.

Benefit-transfer valuation of a cultural heritage site: the Petroglyph National Monument

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLOS A. ULIBARRI ◽  
VICTOR C. ULIBARRI
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Benefit Transfer ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Heritage Site

ABSTRACTThis paper applies a household production framework (Becker, 1971) to infer the economic value of a cultural heritage site, namely, the Petroglyph National Monument, situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The empirical analysis uses benefit-transfer techniques from three source studies: those of Bergstrom and Cordell (1991) and Boxall et al. (2003), which concern willingness-to-pay to hike and view rock art sites; and those of Rolfe and Windle (2003, 2006), which concern willingness-to-pay by Aboriginal and general populations to preserve a cultural heritage site containing rock art. The benefit-transfer analysis estimates recreational values between 3.75 million and 7 million dollars per year (depending on perceptions of the cultural attribute quality) and a nonuse value of approximately 12.5 million dollars per year. By comparison the annualized costs of developing/operating the study site are 8.5 million dollars per year. Thus a partial cost-benefit analysis suggests the study site yields net economic benefits upwards of 7.8 million dollars per year.

scholarly journals Evaluating Standards for Private-Sector Financial Institutions and the Management of Cultural Heritage

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Mason ◽  
Meng Ying
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Operational Costs ◽  
Reputation Risk ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Development Goals

ABSTRACTFinancial institutions typically avoid projects that will have a significant adverse effect on cultural heritage because it creates unwelcome risk and can affect their reputation. For bank clients, adverse project effects on cultural heritage can result in reputation risk, impede access to finance and insurance, increase operational costs, and jeopardize on-time and on-budget delivery of projects. To address this risk, financial institutions implement environmental and social policy frameworks that include specific requirements for the consideration of cultural heritage. This article examines the place of cultural heritage in the lending practices of 25 of the world's largest private-sector banks and its relevance for heritage practitioners who may be retained to provide advice, review or undertake fieldwork, and prepare studies in keeping with the private-sector bank policies and external standards described. The article concludes with a recommended best practice for private-sector financial institutions, a call to action for heritage practitioners to advocate for robust safeguards, and a call for support of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals by both heritage practitioners and private-sector financial institutions.

scholarly journals Visitor-Sensing: Involving the Crowd in Cultural Heritage Organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Cappa ◽  
Federica Rosso ◽  
Antonio Capaldo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
Path Design ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Museum Experience ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

As organizations are increasingly involving individuals across their boundaries in the generation of new knowledge, crowd involvement can also be beneficial to cultural heritage organizations. We argue that in an “Open Innovation in Science” approach, visitors can contribute to generate new scientific knowledge concerning their behavior and preferences, by which museum managers can re-design the cultural offerings of their institutions in ways that generate major economic and social impacts. Accordingly, we advance visitor-sensing as a novel framework in which museum managers leverage digital technologies to collect visitors’ ideas, preferences, and feedback in order to improve path design and the organization of artwork in exhibitions, and to shape a more satisfying museum experience for visitors. We contend that visitor-sensing has the potential to yield higher numbers of visitors, with positive impacts in terms of increased revenues and increased literacy of the general public, thus benefiting the economic and social sustainability of cultural organizations towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals outlined in the Agenda 2030.

Study on Hebei Wind Power Generation Enterprises’ Development-Countermeasures Based on the Cost-Benefit Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 310 ◽  
pp. 403-406
Author(s):  
Li Xin Dai ◽  
Li Hua Tan
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Wind Power Generation ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Development Countermeasures ◽  
The Cost

This paper considered more comprehensive than traditional cost-benefit analysis. Spillover benefits and spillover cost were included. It also combined the development present situation of Hebei wind power generation enterprises and the corresponding policy of the twelfth five-year plan. It studied the development countermeasures of Hebei wind power generation enterprises from the perspective of comprehensive cost benefit with the purpose of easing the tension situation of energy and realizing the goal of energy saving.

scholarly journals A Creative Living Lab for the Adaptive Reuse of the Morticelli Church: The SSMOLL Project

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10561
Author(s):  
Maria Cerreta ◽  
Alessia Elefante ◽  
Ludovica La Rocca
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Artistic Assets

The international debate on the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage sites consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals has become increasingly important in the implementation of circular economy models for urban policies. The new values that characterize cultural assets, considered the result of a collaborative process, can enhance both manufactured and human capital, and provide the basis for a system of relationships that binds them. Furthermore, the values of historical artistic assets produced by community-based regeneration processes are particularly relevant when they characterize abandoned commons and cult buildings, to which communities attribute an identity and symbolic value. Starting from the definition of the concept of complex social value, we propose a methodological process that combines approaches and techniques typical of deliberative evaluations and collaborative decision-making processes. The aim is to identify the complex value chains generated by adaptive reuse, in which intrinsic values can play a driving role in the regeneration strategies of discarded cultural heritage. The experimentation, tested with the project “San Sebastiano del Monte dei Morti Living Lab” (SSMOLL), activates a creative and cultural Living Lab in the former Morticelli church, in the historic center of Salerno, in southern Italy. The reuse project is part of a more comprehensive process of social innovation and culture-led urban regeneration triggered in Salerno starting from SSMOLL. The partial results of the process show how a co-exploration phase has characterized the cultural characteristic of the living lab and how the co-evaluation of the individual activities orient the possible reuse scenarios. Finally, the results provide a first analysis of the relationship types activated.

scholarly journals Landmarks as Cultural Heritage Assets Affecting the Distribution of Settlements in Rural Areas—An Analysis Based on LIDAR DTM, Digital Photographs, and Historical Maps

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Prus ◽  
Magdalena Wilkosz-Mamcarczyk ◽  
Tomasz Salata
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Historical Maps ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Digital Photographs ◽  
Modern Development

The final decision of the owner of the plot who plans to build a house depends on many factors most of which are of legal and financial nature. The authors demonstrate that the decisions regarding specific location within the plot of land are influenced by intangible components as well, namely the intention to have the best view. The view is often related to the occurrence of landmarks with prominent visual impact in the landscape that determine visual connections. The rural landscape is determined by the spatial arrangement including the buildings, the shape of public spaces, ownership divisions, and the land distribution. Being an element of rural cultural heritage, the arrangement of buildings is influenced by a vast number of factors such as geographical, historical, physical, and socio-economic ones. This article focuses on determining the interaction between the settlement locations and zones with an excellent, unique view of characteristic, well-known architectural landmarks. Mapping of viewsheds of many features is a critical element of the landscape planning process and facilitates the protection of cultural heritage assets. The analysis involved LiDAR DTM (Digital Terrain Model created in Light Detection and Ranging technology), digital photographs, and historical maps. In terms of the administrative subdivision, the area comprises 20 localities. The landmark visibility analysis for locations of the buildings covered a 140 km2 area of Carpathian Foothills in southern Poland. The article combines experiences in the field of landscape architecture, spatial planning and the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. The examples show that the modern development layout refers to the historical structure and the development of a new settlement tissue has a cultural background and is influenced by spatial landmarks.

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