Simon C. Woodward, Louise Cooke

World Heritage (eBook, ePUB)

Concepts, Management and Conservation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

World Heritage: Concepts, Management and Conservation presents an insight into discussions and debates surrounding the UNESCO World Heritage List, and the properties on it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000777291
• Artikelnr.: 65608951

Autorenporträt

Simon C. Woodward is a Geographer by training and Principal Lecturer in the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management at Leeds Beckett University where he teaches on both the undergraduate and postgraduate tourism management programmes, specialising in cultural and heritage tourism; destination development and business management. Prior to joining the University in 2008, he spent 20 years as a full-time management consultant to the global heritage tourism sector, working in many developed and emerging destinations in the Middle East; East, West and Southern Africa and in Western Europe, including the UK. Simon has a particular interest in developing and managing community-based heritage.

Louise Cooke is Senior Lecturer in Conservation in the Department of Archaeology at University of York, with interests in sustainability, historic buildings, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes. She has undertaken fieldwork in Central Asia and the Middle East and has a wide-ranging portfolio of freelance and project-based work overseas in the UEA, Peru and Turkey, as well as across the UK. She joined the Archaeology Department in York in 2016, further developing connections and research with South Asia. Louise has a particular interest in creative responses to heritage management and conservation in a changing climate.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. The invention of World Heritage. 2. Implementing the World
Heritage Convention. 3. World Heritage as an instrument of international
politics. 4. Managing major threats to cultural and national heritage
sites. 5. Urbanisation and development. 6. World Heritage and climate
change. 7. Managing threats to marine heritage sites and protected areas.
8. Benefits of World Heritage Site status. 9. Managing tourism pressures at
WHS. 10. Presenting and interpeting World Heritage. 11. World Heritage and
the Sustainable Development Goals. 12. What of the future?