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Impact Assessment in a World Heritage Context
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Managing World Heritage
The foundational manual focused on the elements of the World Heritage management system and the importance of adopting heritage place-based and people-centred approaches.
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Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0
This World Heritage-tailored resource helps evaluate the effectiveness of the heritage management system to identify what works and what changes are needed.
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Impact Assessment in a World Heritage Context
This is the go-to reference manual for those commissioning, implementing or reviewing an impact assessment in the context of World Heritage.
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Introduction
Principles
The World Heritage context for Impact Assessment
The World Heritage Convention
World Heritage properties
World Heritage management and governance as a foundation for impact assessment
Integrating a sustainable development perspective into the processes of the World Heritage Convention
Impact Assessment for World Heritage
Impact assessment
Types of Impact Assessment
Assessing Impacts on World Heritage
Determining the type of Impact Assessment needed
Assessing impacts on World Heritage as part of a wider environmental and social impact assessment
Stand-alone assessment of impacts on Outstanding Universal Value
What are stand-alone Impact Assessments?
Participation: how should rights-holders, local communities and other stakeholders be engaged?
Proactive problem solving
Screening: is an Impact Assessment needed?
Scoping: what should be assessed?
Baseline assessment
The proposed action and alternatives
Identifying and predicting impacts
Evaluating impacts
Mitigation and engancement
Reporting
Reviewing the Report
Decision-making
Follow-up
Appendix: Tools
Notes on how to use tool 1 heritage/conservation values and attributes
Tool 2 Identifying Potential Impacts
Tool 3 Evaluating potential impacts
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Stand-alone assessment of impacts on Outstanding Universal Value
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Impact Assessment in a World Heritage Context
Stand-alone assessment of impacts on Outstanding Universal Value
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6.1
What are stand-alone Impact Assessments?
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6.2
Participation: how should rights-holders, local communities and other stakeholders be engaged?
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6.3
Proactive problem solving
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6.4
Screening: is an Impact Assessment needed?
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6.5
Scoping: what should be assessed?
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6.6
Baseline assessment
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6.7
The proposed action and alternatives
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6.8
Identifying and predicting impacts
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6.9
Evaluating impacts
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6.10
Mitigation and engancement
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6.11
Reporting
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6.12
Reviewing the Report
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6.13
Decision-making
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6.14
Follow-up
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