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UNESCO World Heritage Desk Diary

Featuring a useful week-at-a-glance design, it is illustrated with colour photos of World Heritage sites, each accompanied with a short caption. It also introduces the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage; its objectives, the selection criteria, the ...

World Heritage: Benefits Beyond Borders

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 ...

Basic Texts of the 1972 World Heritage Convention, Edition 2005

Edition 2005 Budapest Declaration on World Heritage Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention Rules of Procedure of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection ...

The Inventory of the historic city of Sana'a: a tool for urban conservation

This publication documents the main outcomes of the studies undertaken in 2003 - 2006, by UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the General Organisation for the Preservation of the Historic Cities of Yemen (GOPHCY), in order to establish appropriate conservation measures for the Old City World ...

The World Heritage Convention, twenty years later

This study, undertaken on 10 June and revised on 4 December 1992 on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, has been graciously delivered to UNESCO by its author, Léon Pressouyre. Considering that it is of great interest to upcoming reflection and ...

World Heritage 2002, shared legacy, common responsibility

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972), UNESCO with the support of the Government of Italy, organized an International Congress, from 14 to 16 November ...

World Heritage and the Arctic

This publication presents the outcome and recommendations of the International Expert Meeting on World Heritage and the Arctic, which took place from 30 November to 1 December 2007 in Narvik, Norway. Representatives from the eight States Parties of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in the ...

World Heritage: Challenges for the Millennium

This publication provides analysis of more than three decades of the implementation of the World Heritage Convention and highlights a number of its successes and challenges. The result of a collective effort of many partners and professionals, it provides a wealth of information, including more ...

The restoration of King Gbehanzin Palace – Royal Palaces of Abomey

Edited by Junzo Kawada, Published by CRATerre-ENSAG and UNESCO World Heritage Centre. This publication describes the first restoration project of a World Heritage site in Benin, financed through a cooperation agreement between Japan and UNESCO. It contains articles by the main experts from ...

Publication: Rehabilitation of the Saint Sebastian Fortress, Island of Mozambique

This colourful brochure published by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre illustrates the background, aims, results and challenges of the rehabilitation project of the Saint Sebastian Fortress on the World Heritage site Island of Mozambique. It marks the conclusion of the first phase of the ...

Business Planning for World Heritage Site Managers - a Toolkit

This project focused on strengthening the business planning capacity of non-profit organisations (government agencies, NGOs) charged with the responsibility for the management and protection of natural World Heritage sites that are currently under some degree of threat. It also had as an ...

Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage

Originally published in 2007 in English, this publication has now been reprinted for the third time in English and translated into French and Spanish. It presents twenty-six case studies from selected natural and cultural World Heritage sites in order to illustrate the impacts of climate change ...

Publication : Patrimoine mondial naturel d'Afrique centrale

Dans le cadre de l'Initiative pour le patrimoine mondial forestier d'Afrique centrale (CAWHFI), le Centre du Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO a organisé un atelier qui visait à identifi er et caractériser les aires protégées ou complexes d'aires ...

Publication : World Heritage in the Congo Basin

This publication is intended for both biodiversity specialists and the general public. It provides detailed information on two important initiatives undertaken by the World Heritage Centre for the preservation of natural heritage in Central Africa. The first initiative, "Biodiversity in ...