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Proceedings of the Thematic Expert Meeting on Wooden Urban Heritage in the Caribbean Region

• Foreword Francesco Bandarin, Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre
• Introduction and Summary Report of Expert Meeting (with Declaration of Georgetown)
  Ron van Oers, Chief of Unit a.i. for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Map of the Caribbean Region as defined by UNESCO
• Papers on Context
  • The growing World Heritage tourism market: a major challenge for conservation management
    Bernd von Droste zu Hülshoff
  • Caribbean heritage: its uses and economic potential
    Lennox Honychurch
  • Wooden Caribbean cities as World Heritage: outline for a comparative analysis
    between Paramaribo (Suriname) and Georgetown (Guyana) Ron van Oers
  • Thematic application: Caribbean wooden urban heritage
    Patricia E. Green
• Papers on Case Studies
  • The use of timber in Barbados: the case of the chattel house
    Steve A. Devonish
  • Wood: the cultural bridge of the Caribbean
    Nilson Acosta Reyes
  • Promoting the rescue of a misunderstood heritage
    Iris de Mondesert
  • Dominica’s architectural heritage in transition: authentic vs aesthetic
    Elise Johnston-Agar
  • The glories of pre-colonial timber construction of the Guianas and Caribbean William Harris
  • The folk architecture of Saint Kitts and Nevis
    Suzanne Gordon
  • Saint Lucia’s wooden urban heritage
    Duane Marquis
  • Protecting the wooden urban heritage in Trinidad and Tobago
    Vel A. Lewis