Abstract
Sustainable cultural heritage management is nowadays considered as a key driver for regions’ development and flourish, lying at the heart of planning and decision-making exercises in many peripheral and insular communities around the globe. These planning efforts and related policies are focusing on building integrated cultural development paths by taking advantage of local natural and cultural resources’ availability; while engaging citizens and stakeholders in order for local views, visions, perceptions, expectations etc. to be effectively embedded in the final planning outcome. Along these lines, the present paper focuses on the development and implementation of a participatory methodological framework for setting strategic guidelines for the sustainable cultural development of a specific area, the Province of Kissamos-Crete. The particular framework is actively engaging local stakeholders’ groups throughout the steps of the planning process. GIS-mapping of natural and cultural resources sets the ground of this participatory planning exercise, upon which the structuring of two scenarios, regarding the sustainable exploitation of cultural reserve, is based, presenting discrete options for successfully linking cultural preservation and alternative tourism development. Stakeholders’ analysis reveals potential conflicts between local views and planning objectives as well as opposing interests among local groups that need to be properly managed through the planning process; while engagement of various interest groups strengthens insight into the value and diversity of this heritage; and properly directs the process of scenario building and evaluation towards widely acceptable cultural management outcomes.
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Actor’s games: seek to gauge the balance of power among actors and study their convergences and divergences with a certain number of associated stakes and objectives (Godet et al. 2004).
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Part of the work presented in this paper was carried out in the context of the Research Project “Strategic Planning (Master Plan) of Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development of the Kissamos and Platanias—Crete Municipalities”. The Project was accomplished by the Dept. of Geography and Regional Planning, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2015–2016. It was co-funded by the Municipalities of Kissamos and Platanias as well as the Regional Entity of Chania, Crete.
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Panagiotopoulou, M., Somarakis, G., Stratigea, A., Katsoni, V. (2017). In Search of Participatory Sustainable Cultural Paths at the Local Level—The Case of Kissamos Province-Crete. In: Katsoni, V., Upadhya, A., Stratigea, A. (eds) Tourism, Culture and Heritage in a Smart Economy . Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47732-9_23
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