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Governance in UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Reframing the Role of Management Plans as a Tool to Improve Community Engagement

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Aspects of Management Planning for Cultural World Heritage Sites

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The term integrated conservation first entered the lexicon of the cultural heritage community in the 1975 European Charter of the Architectural Heritage recognising that the future of that component of our heritage depends on the weight attached to it within the framework of urban and regional planning. Since then, formal recognition within the heritage community has expanded to include intangible cultural heritage and diversity of cultural expressions; the agendas of sustainability, sustainable development, and climate change have reframed the overarching context; and the role of today’s communities as both custodians and beneficiaries of the broad spectrum of cultural and natural heritage has assumed a central position in the heritage discourse alongside management, a term with diverse interpretations in practice. Expanding on the tripartite encapsulation of sustainable development in the Brundtland Report, the 2010 Toledo Declaration on Urban Development defined the multiple dimensions of sustainability as “economic, social, environmental, cultural and governance”. “Good governance,” it reads, “based on the principles of openness, participation, accountability, effectiveness, coherence and subsidiarity is required in order to assure the successful implementation of public policies, a more efficient and effective allocation of public resources and to increase citizen’s direct participation, involvement, engagement and empowerment”. This concluding chapter seeks to extract key findings on multilevel governance as the key to sound management and to reframe the role of management plans in so doing.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    UNESCO, 2005–2016, Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention.

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    Credit for this classification: Tania Ali Soomro, ICOMOS-Pakistan and masters student at the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation, KU Leuven, in her presentation at the ICOMOS Theory and Philosophy International Scientific Conference, “How to Assess Built Heritage?”, Florence, Italy, March 2015.

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    Operational Guidelines , 2016, paras 108–118.

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    Operational Guidelines, 2016, para 111.

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    As Chap. 1 describes, the holistic management of sites beyond a simplistic approach to OUV is amplified in Managing Cultural World Heritage (World Heritage Resource Manual), 2013, Paris: World Heritage Center.

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    The COMUS Project offers an example of this (Council of Europe 2017).

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Ripp, M., Rodwell, D. (2018). Governance in UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Reframing the Role of Management Plans as a Tool to Improve Community Engagement. In: Makuvaza, S. (eds) Aspects of Management Planning for Cultural World Heritage Sites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69856-4_18

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