management of world heritage sites

Urban World Heritage Sites and the problem of authenticity

The number of designated World Heritage Sites (WHS) has proliferated across the world over the last two decades. Often associated with relatively self-contained sites of historic or architectural importance and their immediate surroundings, an increasing number of urban WHS now extend to broader areas within cities. The urbanness of WHS presents a series of challenges related to the designation...

Assessing and Monitoring the Sustainability in Rural World Heritage Sites

In 2002, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established the importance of the sustainability and the need of management plans for the safeguard of cultural heritage. No models, rules or specific definitions have been provided for this purpose. By 2014, UNESCO had recognized 16 rural landscapes as cultural heritage sites. This paper aims to understand th...

Architectural Heritage Online: Ontology-Driven Website Generation for World Heritage Sites in Danger

We introduce an online knowledge base for semantic representation and annotation of a world heritage site in danger. For this purpose we designed ontology inside the protégé tool with multiple metadata-based schemas to represent a knowledge base for heritage buildings and to annotate heterogeneous data sources. The ontology schema also references multiple bibliographies so it can gather the com...

World Heritage Paper 31 - Community development through World Heritage

World Heritage Papers 9

Prioritizing of the Hyrcanian Proposed Sites for Inscription on the UNESCO´S World Heritage List by use of Decision Making Methods

Hyrcanian forests are one of the most valuable forests in the world, dating from about 25 to 50 million years old. Climate variation, unique plant and animal species accompany with habitat diversity have made these forests one of the most unique ecosystems on Earth and worthy of being listed on the UNESCOchr('39')s World Heritage List. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to use both De...