Sustainability
“Our Sustainable Heritage: World Heritage conservation as a more sustainable form of development”
The implementation of the WH Convention today does not achieve a true alignment between protection of Outstanding Universal Value and sustainable development, allowing misinterpretations of the latter to undermine the former. An improved understanding and practice of interpreting, assessing and managing development in WH sites is urgently needed to remedy this situation.
World Heritage is a medium to achieve our transformation into more locally empowered, just and resilient societies. Development processes can and should be reconfigured to fully reflect the contribution of heritage conservation, in a more sustainable form of development grounded in Outstanding Universal Value, managed with transparency, dialogue and understanding.
The criteria to inscribe and manage World Heritage need to fully incorporate sustainability. This will ensure conservation for the future, through globally shared values and multiple ways of knowing (Indigenous and non-Indigenous).
Cultural heritage WITH Natural heritage WITH Society:
PEOPLE: Sustainability of custodial capacity, through building communities’ “social capital” and strengthening the governance system, with a focus on civil society and communities, to ensure transparency, communication, mutual respect and dialogue in managing development;
PLANET: Sustainability of the landscape-environment, bridging the culture-nature divide, putting conservation in wider ecological and social contexts, reducing the risks of environmental degradation and climate change;
PROSPERITY: Sustainability of the local economy, engaging with the interaction between protecting heritage and economic growth, and clarifying the relationships among heritage, modernity and economic development, with a focus on reciprocal benefits.
ORGANISERS:
Ege Yildirim
Coordinator
Rubén Pesci
Co-Convener
Lucia Pesci
Co-Convener
Rualdo Menegat
Co-Convener
Pamela Durán Díaz
Co-Convener
Maria Virginia Avila
Debora Barros
Jana Das Chaudhuri
Gioia Maria Estefania
Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo
Amy Kowalchuk
Léo Vignol Lelarge
Pankaj Manchanda
Yapeng Ou
Anna-Paola Pola
Luna Rajab
Susan Ross
Roxanne Skosana
Juliana Strogan
Lui Tam
Agata Wąsowska-Pawlik
AFFILIATED INSTITUTES:
