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Originally published in 2007 in English, this publication has now been reprinted for the third time in English and translated into French, Spanish and Arabic. It presents twenty-six case studies from selected natural and cultural World Heritage sites in order to illustrate the impacts of climate change that have already been observed, and those that can be expected in the ...
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Seminar at the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (France) on Tourism and World Heritage Sites
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Call to produce additional innovative resource material on specific World Heritage sites
The importance of preparing new multi-media educational material focused on specific World Heritage sites in respective countries was given emphasis by participants from twenty different countries at the International conference on World Heritage in Young Hands ‘A Dialogue among ...
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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are islands of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are some of the most beautiful places on Earth, with atolls of white sand beaches, mountain ranges covered in cloud forest, historic ports and towns, and agricultural landscapes. They are relatively remote, vulnerable to environmental challenges, such as ...
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There exist a great variety of Landscapes that are representative of the different regions of the world. Combined works of nature and humankind, they express a long and intimate relationship between peoples and their natural environment.There exist a great variety of Landscapes that are representative of the different regions of the world. Combined works of nature and ...
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Disaster Risk Management Plan for Quebrada de Humahuaca
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Washing of the Valongo Wharf, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
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The First Foro Accesible de Patrimonio JovenQuinCarméla
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Promoting field-based heritage education in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)
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Technical assistance for the management of the Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site, El Salvador
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Special plan for the protection and restoration of the historic city of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
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Rubem Braga Elevator Complex: connecting the favelas with the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
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The Heritage Office of the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura, COLCULTURA, organized the Caribbean Fortification Experts Meeting, financed by the UNESCO World Heritage Fund, for purposes of encouraging the inclusion of Caribbean Fortifications as a whole within the World Heritage List. The meeting was held during July 31- August 2, 1996, in Cartagena de Indias.Caribbean ...
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Ile d'Aix (Region Poitou-Charentes)25 august- 15 september 2008
Description
Fort Liedot forms part of the Arsenal de Rochefort et fortifications de l'estuaire de la Charente (World Heritage Tentative List as cultural site, 2002).
The site is in need for regular restoratiions and installations. The work camp will continue works of the restoration in the parhs of th ...
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Note 3 – Identification des detenteurs de droits et autres parties prenantes, et outils d’engagement
Note 3 – Identification des detenteurs de droits et autres parties prenantes, et outils d’engagement
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The Comite francais pour la sauvegarde de Venise often sponsors the restoration of Venetian monuments that have a French connection.
This is the case of the Cappella Clary in the Church of San Trovaso, the burial place of a French princess.
The most important work in the chapel is the beautiful fifteenth-century relief carving of three Greek marble panels on the front of ...
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The Comite francais pour la sauvegarde de Venise began the restoration and refurbishment of two frescoed rooms in the Querini Stampalia Foundation, once occupied by the Serenissima's last ambassador to France.
The removal of crude nineteenth-century overpainting has revealed an almost complete original decorative scheme that quite transforms the rooms concerned. T
hey will ...
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The UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes has been awarded for its first edition in 1999 jointly to Valle de Vinales (Cuba), the Elishia's Park in Jericho (State of Palestine), and the Open-Air Art Museum at Pedvale (Latvia).
Valle de VinalesCuba
Valle de Vinales (Cuba) © UNESCO, Ron Van Oers
The ...
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The World Heritage Cities Programme is one of six thematic programmes formally approved and monitored by the World Heritage Committee. The programme concerns the development of a theoretical framework for urban heritage conservation, and the provision of technical assistance to States Parties for the implementation of new approaches and schemes.
World Heritage Cities ...
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The Comite francais financed the restoration of Lorenzo Bregno's sixteenth-century funeral monument to Alvise Pasqualigo in the Church of the Frari in memory of Ms Solange Gaussen. In November and December the Committee enabled the organ doors that Bonfacio de' Pitati painted for the Church of Sant'Alvise (restored in 1998) to be put on a temporary exhibition in the ...
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The France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement, similar to the technical cooperation provided to the Town of Luang Prabang in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, has provided technical and financial support to national and local authorities for the inscription, protection and enhancement and development of the Ile de Saint-Louis in Senegal, based on decentralised collaboration ...
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Adopting a more hands-on approach
At skills development training courses, young people are actively involved in the preservation of World Heritage, while acquiring new skills that contribute to a better understanding of the importance of both their tangible (monuments, historical centres, natural reserves, etc.) and intangible heritage (traditional know-how, music, ...
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Following the launching in December 2006 of the Patrimonito Storyboard Competition organized by the World Heritage Centre in coordination with the UNESCO Associated Schools, the contest results are now available.
Four hundred students from the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda registered to take part in the Competition. They submitted ...
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Higher education is crucial to the long-term preservation of World Heritage sites. As the World Heritage List grows, there is an urgent need for qualified professionals to manage every aspect of the sites, from conservation and preservation to monitory, to tourism and visitor flows as well as interaction with local authorities and communities.
The World Heritage Centre ...
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The handbook "Cultural heritage and local development: A Guide for African local governments", co-edited by the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement and CRATerre-ENSAG in 2006, was designed as a tool for decision making, but also for sensitising the elected representatives to the challenges of the protection and valorisation of their heritage. It aims to create a new ...
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Tunis, Tunisia, 11-13 February 2005
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A Regional Workshop on the Practical Manual: Introducing Young People to Heritage Site Management and Protection was held in Tunis involving teachers, from 7 countries in the Arab region, in the discussion and evaluation of pedagogic and curricula approaches for the protection of historic sites and cities.
Objectives
The ultimate ...
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The first Regional Meeting on Modern Heritage, for Latin America, took place from 11 to 13 December 2002 in Monterrey (Mexico) and was organised by the World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS, DOCOMOMO and the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia of Mexico (INAH). Attended by more than 50 persons, two dozen experts who were selected for their professional work and ...
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Dakar-Goree, Senegal 23-27 August 1999
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The World Heritage Youth Forum and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
By mobilizing the youth from different schools all around the world, UNESCO desired, through the Associated Schools Network to
sensitize young people to the World heritage preservation;
increase knowledge of the young people on a painful chapter of the human ...
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The Task Force on the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention was established by the 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee in Marrakesh, Morocco, 29 November - 4 December 1999.
The Committee determined that the Task force, chaired by Canada, would include Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Morocco, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, and the advisory bodies (ICOMOS, ...
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Strasbourg, France, 29-30 January 2003
Objectives
The First teacher-training course organized in France since the beginning of the project in 1994.
The objective of the course was to familiarize the teachers with the educational concept of World Heritage and to initiate a strategy for World Heritage Education for the Alsace region.
Outcome
The teachers who had already used ...
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UNESCO World Heritage Forests
© David Geldhof / Yosemite National Park
Forests are some of the most biodiversity-rich habitats on Earth. They play a crucial role in climate regulation by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) and are considered as one of the most cost-effective forms of climate action.
They are also vitally important for human well-being and survival. It ...
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In November 2002 the Guatemalan authorities sent an updated tentative list of 16 sites eligible for nomination process for UNESCO World Heritage status. The relevance of Mayan sites, the potential for improving the representation of Mayan sites on the World Heritage list, and the linking of some proposals with pre-existing sites became clear. A mission for Preparatory ...
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Lima, Peru 23 February - 1 March 2001
Objectives
The main objective of the Forum was to find ways to protect the areas that are threatened by tourism.
The global phenomenon of the increase of tourism forces authorities to plan and think of the potential impact that the circulation of voyagers has over a site. For this reason students and teachers of the Youth Forum put ...
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Created in 2003 within the framework of the Global Strategy for the balanced, representative and credible World Heritage List, as a pilot activity for the identification of the sites connected with astronomy, the Thematic Initiative on Astronomy and World Heritage, aims to establish a link between Science and Culture towards recognition of the monuments and sites connected ...
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From the 20 to the 23 September 2004, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre organised an international seminar involving official representatives and experts in the area of Archaeology in the Caribbean for the identification of Archaeological sites in the Caribbean for potential inscription on the World Heritage List, in Fort-de-France, Martinique. The results of the seminar ...
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The technical cooperation for the protection, enhancement and development of the Town of Luang Prabang, Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a remarkable example of tripartite cooperation between the Lao People's Democratic Republic, France and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. It is the flagship pilot project of the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement, which served as a ...
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The UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes was created in 1995 to reward outstanding examples of action to safeguard and enhance the world’s cultural landscapes.
UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes
Tae Rak channel and ...
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Situated in an exceptionally beautiful landscape and covering a vast area of 42 km2, Hampi, in India, contains major archaeological remains of what was once the capital of the last great Hindu kingdom and one of the world’s largest cities in the 16th century. Today, it is a living site, with 29 villages and widespread agricultural activity. Hampi is an important Hindu ...
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Sites on the World Heritage List are cultural, natural or mixed properties recognized by the World Heritage Committee has being of outstanding universal value. Biosphere Reserves are areas of terrestrial and coastal ecosystems which are internationally recognized within the framework of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme.
State Party
World Heritage ...
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At Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, reserve staff and local partners, such as Amigos de Sian Ka'an, are developing strategies to mitigate the pressures from mass tourism on the site's tropical forests, mangrove canals and coral barrier reef, the second largest in the world.Increase the quality of existing ecotourism services; Reduce the impact of ...
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The mid ocean ridge systems are the largest geological features on the planet. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a mostly underwater mountain range in the Atlantic Ocean that runs from 87°N -about 333km south of the North Pole- to subantarctic Bourvet island at 54°S. The MAR is about 3 km in height above the ocean floor and 1000 to 1500 km wide, has numerous transform faults ...
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The World Heritage Young Professionals Fora are among the flagship activities of the World Heritage Education Programme, designed to foster learning and exchange by bringing together young people and heritage experts from different parts of the world to discover new roles for themselves in heritage conservation.
They have been providing a platform for intercultural ...
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The ‘Niger-Loire: Governance and Culture’ project, coordinated by the World Heritage Centre within the framework of the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement, and financed by the European Commission, was launched in Mali in November 2007 as a result of discussions initiated in 2004 on the development of the Inner Niger Delta and its inscription on the World Heritage List as ...
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The World Heritage Information Network (WHIN) is the global network of World Heritage information providers.
It was created in 1995 in order to foster the exchange of information between partner networks and World Heritage sites around the world. In addition to information carried by its partners, news is circulated through WHNEWS, the e-mail newsletter, the printed World ...
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Young People's Appeal from Dubrovnik
We, the young people "Patrimonitos" (heritage protectors), as we call ourselves, are so happy to be here in the World Heritage City of Dubrovnik. During this forum we became aware of the importance of preserving our heritage which we consider to be our treasure, and we discussed our ideas for protecting the World heritage with the ...
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Covering an area estimated at 1.62 million km2, the forests of Central Africa are home to vital biodiversity for the planet and play a central role in climate regulation and carbon sequestration.
Central Africa World Heritage Forest Initiative(CAWHFI)
© Ralf Fisher / Tri-national de la Sangha
Covering an area estimated at 1.62 million km2, the forests of ...
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People of Africa, the Americas, the Arab to the future world, Asia, Europe and the Pacific; men, women and children, we are all the inheritors of treasures from past civilizations and natural sites of outstanding beauty. We are all responsible for passing these treasures on civilizations. People of the world, ephemeral owners of the world heritage of humanity, ours is the ...
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During the 7th International Symposium of the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) in Rhodes, Greece (23-26 September) a Youth Forum was held within the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage in Young Hands Project . The forum was attended by 19 young people between 18 and 20 years of age, who met at the Marc de Montalembert Foundation in the heart of the medieval ...
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Valencia, July 1998
By Minja Yang
As the century approaches its end, the oracles of the day have set about prophesying doom or utopia in the next millennium at conferences, in the media and even in board rooms where marketing strategies are developed for just about anything from soap to satellite dishes. After a century of unprecedented commodities production through the ...
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Our Pledge, Bergen, Norway
Cultural and natural sites form the environment on which human beings are dependent psychologically, religiously, educationally and economically. Their destruction or even deterioration could be harmful to the survival of our identity, our nations and our planet. We have the responsibility to preserve these sites for future generations.
Our ...