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Bourdin, Gwenaëlle (2014) L’évolution de la notion de série à travers les Orientations devant guider la mise en oeuvre de la Convention du patrimoine mondial. In: Les biens en série du patrimoine mondial : nouvel enjeu, nouveaux critères, 17-18 December 2012, Poitiers, France. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier]

2.Gatier, Pierre-Antoine (2012) La naissance des biens en série : l’évolution des biens français. In: Les biens en série du patrimoine mondial : nouvel enjeu, nouveaux critères, 17-18 December 2012, Poitiers, France. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier]

3.Olive-Garcia, Cécile (2012) La Chaîne des Puys et la faille de Limagne. In: Les biens en série du patrimoine mondial : nouvel enjeu, nouveaux critères, 17-18 December 2012, Poitiers, France. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier]

4.Prats, Michèle (2012) Les paysages culturels viticoles. In: Les biens en série du patrimoine mondial : nouvel enjeu, nouveaux critères, 17-18 December 2012, Poitiers, France. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier]

5.Bostenaru Dan, Maria et Panagopoulos, Thomas (2014) Digital modeling of the impact of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Comptes rendus de Projets. "Ion Mincu" Publishing House, Bucharest, 118p. ISBN 978-606-638-085-0. [Monographie]

6.(2013) Convenciones Unesco. Una visión articulada desde Iberoamérica. Conference Volume. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México, 300p. ISBN 978-607-484-460-3. [Monographie]

 

7.Vérité, Jacques (2014) Recherches sur le Mausolee de Gasr Ed Douirat reconstruit à Leptis Magna en Libye : Nouvelle restitution et étude d’un monument baroque expressionniste de la modernité sévérienne à décor mithriaque [new file uploaded on March 28 2014 - errors rectified]. N/A . [Article] (Non Publié)

8.Dirección de Patrimonio Mundial (2013) Hereditas 19/20. , 19/20. 80p . [Revue]

9.Fernandez, Agnès et CLOUX, ANAÏS et Lastiri, Marion et Monge, Claudette et Pincent, Guillemette (2014)Quartiers anciens, quartiers durables. Manuels. ANVPAH&VSSP, Bayonne, France, 76p. [Monographie]

10.(2013) Celebrating 40 years of the World Heritage Convention. Conference Volume. UNESCO, Paris, 238p. [Monographie]

11.(2013) Managing Cultural World Heritage. Manuels. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, 152p. ISBN 978-92-3-001223-6. [Monographie]

12.Vérité, Jacques (2014) L’arc est de Mustis en Tunisie : proposition de rectification d’une restauration erronée. Comptes rendus de Projets. N/A 8p. [Monographie] (Non Publié)

13.Niglio, Olimpia (2014) Inheritance and identity of Cultural Heritage. Advances in Literary Study, 2 (1). p. 1-4. ISSN 2327-4050 [Article] Item availability may be restricted.

14.López, William Alfonso (2013) Museo en tiempos de conflicto: Memoria y Ciudadanía en Colombia. Autres. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 56p. ISBN 978-958-761-757-3. [Monographie]

15.Larsen, Knut Einar (1994) Architectural preservation in Japan. Autres. Tara Publishers, Trondheim, Norway, 204p. ISBN 82-519-1432-9. [Monographie] Item availability may be restricted.

16.Berton, Mathieu (2011) La prise en compte des populations locales dans la mise en valeur et la gestion touristique des sites culturels l’exemple du site du Pont du Gard. Master thesis, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne. [Thèse]

17.Vafadari, Azadeh et Cesaro, Giorgia et Santana Quintero, Mario et Van Balen, Koen et Vileikis, Ona (2012)Risk management at heritage sites: A case study of the Petra world heritage site. Comptes rendus de Projets. UNESCO, Paris; Aman, 128p. ISBN 978-92-3-001073-7. [Monographie]

18.Vidargas, Francisco (2005) El gremio de plateros y las fiestas inmaculistas. Ventana interior, VI (32). p. 44-48. [Article]

19.Osorio, Katti (2010) Research on timber frame buildings in Panama City. Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ), 75 (650). p. 989-995. ISSN 1340-4210 [Article]

20.Santagati, Cettina et Inzerillo, Laura et Di Paola, Francesco (2013) IMAGE-BASED MODELING TECHNIQUES FOR ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE 3D DIGITALIZATION: LIMITS AND POTENTIALITIES.International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XL-5 (w2). p. 555-560. ISSN 2194-9034 [Article] Item availability may be restricted.

World Heritage: New resources

The World Heritage Centre has made available new tools and documents: 

"Managing Cultural World Heritage" reference manual This manual provides guidance for States Parties and all those involved in the care of World Heritage cultural properties on how to comply with the requirements of the World Heritage Convention. It also aims to help States Parties to ensure that heritage has a dynamic role in society and harnesses, but also delivers to others, the mutual benefits that such a role can create. Free download from : http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1078/

"Celebrating 40 years of the World Heritage Convention" This electronic publication provides the vivid record of the three-day landmark event, which was organized jointly by the Government of Japan and UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in Kyoto, Japan, 6-8 November 2012. During the Closing Event, challenges the Convention faced in its early years as well as today's key issues in the World Heritage community, were discussed. Free download from http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1077/

And the new database, "State of Conservation of World Heritage properties".
State of Conservation (SOC): The very significant number of reports prepared by the UNESCO Secretariat and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee represents an exceptional and extensive documentation on various conservation issues. It is one of the most comprehensive monitoring systems of any international conventions, through a global network of sites.
Website

Recently acquired by ICOMOS Documentation Centre

UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value

Dr. Sophia Labadi

This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level. Drawing on close policy analysis of UNESCO’s major documents, extensive professional experience at UNESCO, as well as in-depth analyses of case studies from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Sophia Labadi offers a nuanced discussion of the constitutive role of national understandings of a universalist framework. 

The discussion departs from considerations of the World Heritage Convention as Eurocentric and offers a more complex analysis of how official narratives relating to non-European and non-traditional heritage mark a subversion of a dominant and canonical European representation of heritage. It engages simultaneously with a diversity of discourses across the humanities and social sciences and with related theories pertaining not only to tangible and intangible heritage, conservation, and archaeology but also political science, social theory, tourism and development studies, economics, cultural, and gender studies. In doing so, it provides a critical review of many key concepts, including tourism, development, sustainability, intangible heritage, and authenticity.



Labadi, Sophia. UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value: value-based analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Heritage Conventions. Lanham, Maryland, USA, AltaMira Press, 2013. (Archaeology in society series). Incl. bibl. and index. ISBN: 978-0-7591-2256-7

18 April 2012 - Celebrate!

Happy International Day for Monuments and Sites!

In 2012 we celebrate the "World Heritage".

→ Download the article presenting this year's theme by Alfredo Conti, Chair ICOMOS World Heritage Working Group: [English] - [Français] - [Español]

Learn more about events and celebrations all over the World on ICOMOS' website

World Heritage Sites 2011: ICOMOS bibliographies

Discover the newly inscribed properties of the World Heritage list by regions or categories of cultural heritage:


- World Heritage in Asia and Pacific
- World Heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean
- World Heritage in Africa
- World Herigage in the Arab States

- Industrial and Technical Heritage in the World Heritage List
- World Heritage Urban Sites - in two volumes
- Modern Heritage Properties (19th and 20th Centuries) on the World Heritage List
- World Heritage Cultural Landscapes
- Rock art sites
- World Heritage Hominid Sites



Each bibliography contains the description of the site by the World Heritage Centre, but also relevant references of documents available at the ICOMOS Documentation Centre.

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New tool: "Preparing World Heritage Nominations (First Edition, 2010)"

DOWNLOAD (PDF, 4.11 MB)

- English version: Preparing World Heritage Nominations (First Edition, 2010)
- Version française : Établir une proposition d'inscription au patrimoine mondial (Première édition, 2010)


The World Heritage Resource Manual Series

Since the World Heritage Convention was adopted in 1972, the World Heritage List has continually evolved and is growing steadily. With this growth, a critical need has emerged for guidance for States Parties on the implementation of the Convention. Various expert meetings and results of the periodic reporting process have identified the need for more focused training and capacity development in specific areas where States Parties and World Heritage site managers require greater support. The development of this series of World Heritage Resource Manuals is a response to this need.

The publication of the series is a joint undertaking by the three Advisory Bodies of the World Heritage Convention (ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN ) and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre as the Secretariat of the Convention.

The aim of this Resource Manual is to help States Parties to achieve good quality World Heritage nominations.
The Advisory Bodies consider that there are a few underlying basic principles which should underpin all good nominations to ensure that the most appropriate properties are nominated, properties are represented as effectively as possible within nominations, and the nomination process itself contributes to protection, conservation and effective management of natural and cultural heritage.

Text source: World Heritage Centre

Online Proceedings: Symposium "Villes Françaises du Patrimoine Mondial et Tourisme" - May 2010

Actes de la journée organisée par La Chaire UNESCO « Culture, Tourisme Développement » L’IREST et l’EIREST, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, La Convention France-Unesco ICOMOS-France - UNESCO, 27 Mai 2010

Direction: Maria GRAVARI-BARBAS & Sébastien JACQUOT.

Edition: Anne-Cécile MERMET.

Télécharger les actes / Download proceedings (in French) [PDF, 3.25 MB]

New acquisitions at ICOMOS Documentation Centre

We wish to present our readers two beautiful books newly acquired by ICOMOS Documentation Centre. Published by Editions Gelbart, "Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO : les sites français" et "Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO : les sites marocains" are two wonderful photographical voyages through UNESCO World Heritage sites.




Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO : les sites français. Pierron, Jacques (text) and Gelbart, Jean-Jacques (Photographs). Toulouse, France, Editions Gelbart, 2009. 323 p.

Leaf through the book online: click here




Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO : les sites marocains. Gelbart, Jean-Jacques (Photographs). Toulouse, France, Editions Gelbart, 2009. 149 p.

Leaf through the book online: click here





Editions Gelbart website: http://gelbart-photographe.fr/index.php

New Bibliography on Management Plans

Management plans and the World Heritage Convention: A bibliography

Around 200 bibliographic references extracted from the ICOMOS Documentation Centre collections.

Download the document (PDF, 150 KB)

Webpage of all the ICOMOS bibliographies - English or French

Working paper: "World Heritage: Where Are We? An Empirical Analysis"

World Heritage: Where Are We? An Empirical Analysis. By Bruno S. Frey, Paolo Pamini. A working paper for the Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA).

An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the existing List according to countries and continents. The existing distribution is compared to hypothetical distributions considered “balanced” from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a distribution of Sites according to population, area or per capita income. This paper wants to reveal facts about the existing distribution, and is designed to help a reasoned discussion to emerge.

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World Heritage Review n°54 - Astronomy and World Heritage - Available

World Heritage Review n°54 - Astronomy and World Heritage


See Table of Contents

Source: WHC website

Earth, Wind, Water, Fire - Environmental challenges to Urban World Heritage

The City of Regensburg hosted the OWHC Northwest-European Regional Conference "Earth, Wind, Water, Fire - Environmental challenges to Urban World Heritage" (16-18 September 2008).



The conference proceedings have now been published by the City of Regensburg. This scientific publication summarizes the conference results, highlights experiences with environmental challenges and points out different protection strategies for historic urban areas by depicting the numerous conference presentations on 'Earth', 'Wind', 'Water' and 'Fire' which covered a wide spectrum of natural risks to urban World Heritage sites.

Download the publication in pdf

Source: City of Regensburg

La Rivista Siti, Trimestrale di attualità e politica culturale: Anno 5, n° 4, 2009

La Rivista Siti, Trimestrale di attualità e politica culturale, the fourth issue of 2009, (Ottobre/Dicembre, Anno 5, n° 4, 2009) is available to download in the website.



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World Heritage Status: Is there an Opportunity for Economic Gain?

This report, "World Heritage Status: Is there an Opportunity for Economic Gain?: Research and analysis of the socio-economic impact potential of UNESCO World Heritage Site status", is a research and analysis of the socio-economic impact potential of WH status undertaken by Rebanks Consulting and Trends Business Research Ltd, on behalf on the Lake District World Heritage Project.

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ICOMOS Norway publication: World heritage and human rights: conflicts or cooperation?

World heritage and human rights: conflicts or cooperation?

ICOMOS Norway publishes the abstracts of the Seminar on the UNESCO 1972 World Heritage Convention, held in Oslo, February 6th 2008, the Central Government Complex.

The Seminar was organised by ICOMOS Norway in cooperation with the Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.

UNESCO World Heritage Centre: New publication

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has just published the following publication:

World heritage and buffer zones / Patrimoine mondial et zones tampon. International expert meeting on World Heritage and Buffer Zones, Davos, Switzerland 11-14 March 2008. Edited by Oliver Martin and Giovanna Piatti. Paris: UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2009. 199 p. (World Heritage Papers; 25)

[Download the publication]

Table of contents:

- Foreword, preface and introduction
- Position papers of Advisory Bodies, World Heritage Centre and other Programmes and Conventions
- Case studies presented by participating experts
- Final report of the Expert Meeting
- Presentation of the Results of the Meeting at the 32nd Session of the World Heritage Committee, Québec-City, Canada (2008)
- Decision 32 COM 7.1

New ICOMOS publication: The World Heritage List - What is OUV? Defining the Outstanding Universal Value of Cultural World Heritage Properties

Monuments and Sites Volume XVI: What is OUV? Defining the Outstanding Universal Value of Cultural World Heritage Properties

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Le Patrimoine Mondial : Définir et protéger les « perspectives visuelle importantes »

Procès-verbal – Le Patrimoine Mondial : Définir et protéger les « perspectives visuelle importantes »
Proceedings – World Heritage: defining and protecting “Important Views”

La Chaire de Recherche du Canada en Patrimoine Bâti a publié sur leur site web les actes de la Table Ronde organisée le 18-20 Mars 2008 à Montréal, Quebec, avec le sujet suivant:
Le Patrimoine Mondial : Définir et protéger les « perspectives visuelle importantes »

Téléchargez le document / Download the document

La Rivista Siti, Trimestrale di politica ed attualità culturale: Anno 5, n° 1, 2009

La Rivista Siti, Trimestrale di politica ed attualità culturale, The first issue of 2009, Gennaio / Marzo, Anno 5, n° 1, 2009, is available to download in the website of the Rivista Siti.

Download n° 1, 2009

Online Journals: New issues available - Rivista SITI

Rivista SITI: Trimestrale di politica ed attualità culturale. n° 4 Ottobre/Dicembre 2008
[Available]