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Manage World Heritage
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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 to the Managing World Heritage manual
Who is this manual for?
Why is a new manual needed?
What is this manual?
The Heritage Place as a basis for management
Taking a place-based approach to heritage management
Taking people-centred approaches to management
Management systems for heritage places
Understanding the Heritage Place
Heritage values and attributes
Social, cultural, economic and environmental context
Factors affecting the heritage place
Boundaries, buffer zones and the wider setting
Services and benefits – how heritage contributes to human well-being, quality of life and sustainable development
Governance for the Heritage Place
Governance
Actors
Legal, regulatory and customary frameworks
Decision-making processes
Strengthening management processes at heritage places
Management processes
Management planning processes
Developing management plans
Identifying needs and allocating resources
Implementing management measures
Disaster risk management
Climate action
Impact assessment
Tourism and visitor management
Monitoring
Evaluating results and improving the management system
The need to focus on results
Evaluating results and improving the management system
What is a management effectiveness assessment?
Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0: assessing management effectiveness of World Heritage Properties and other heritage places
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Understanding the Heritage Place
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Managing World Heritage
Understanding the Heritage Place
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3.1
Heritage values and attributes
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3.2
Social, cultural, economic and environmental context
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3.3
Factors affecting the heritage place
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3.4
Boundaries, buffer zones and the wider setting
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3.5
Services and benefits – how heritage contributes to human well-being, quality of life and sustainable development
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