World Heritage Sites

Author: Unesco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228101352
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 960

Book Description
"The eighth edition fully updates the book to add 42 new sites. World Heritage sites are judged under strict criteria with a view to the aim that they reflect the world's cultural and natural diversity and are of outstanding universal value. World Heritage Sites attracts a general readership as well as travellers and those with an interest in natural or human history, the Earth sciences, geography, conservation of the environment, wildlife and habitats; and planning and preservation."--

World Heritage Sites

Author: Unesco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770856400
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The definitive guide to all 1,007 World Heritage sites.

World Heritage Sites

Author: Unesco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554078271
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Each site has an entry explaining its historical and cultural significance, with a description and location map.

Managing World Heritage Sites

Author: Anna Leask
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0750665467
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
World Heritage Sites are some of the recognised locations around the world. This work covers the management issues encountered at cultural and natural UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It considers various aspects in arriving at solutions for site management principles. It covers issues such as WHS designation, marketing, visitor management, and more.

The World's Heritage

Author: Unesco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007546978
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A unique guide to every UNESCO World Heritage site, this book explores some of the world's most extraordinary places.

World Heritage Sites

Author: Unesco
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9781770858176
Category : World Heritage areas
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Each site has an entry explaining its historical and cultural significance, with a description and location map.

World Heritage Sites

Author: Unesco
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9781770852532
Category : World Heritage areas
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Published jointly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) ... and Firefly Books Ltd. 2014"--Title page verso.

World Heritage on the Ground

Author: Christoph Brumann
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785330926
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.

Coastal World Heritage Sites

Author: Vanda Claudino-Sales
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9402415289
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 591

Book Description
This book presents the natural, environmental and scenic richness of the world’s coastal and marine areas classified by UNESCO as “Natural World Heritage Sites”. Representing well-preserved areas of exceptional significance to the planet and to humankind, they include a total of 49 marine sites, formed by reefs, atolls and gulfs, and 35 coastal sites in all oceans and all continents with exception of Antarctica. They are being protected and preserved from most degrading uses for future generations as an important legacy from the past. Exploring their richness, this book analyzes and explains these sites in a clear, understandable, scientific way, and is of interest to all who work in or care about the geosciences, environmental sciences and biosciences.

India: UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Author: Shikha Jain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783777435718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
The World Heritage Sites list created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) aims to promote awareness and preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage around the world, sites that are considered to have outstanding value for all humanity, regardless of location. To date, UNESCO has named thirty-eight such sites in India, all of which are presented in this volume, together with commentary by architects and conservationists and stunning photographs by Rohit Chawla. The cultural sites selected in India are a rich repository of the country's long, layered history, bearing witness to the creativity and influence of multiple communities, crafts, and religions. The sites covered in this volume range across the length and breadth of India--from the earliest periods of rock art, Buddhist caves, and Hindu temples, Sultanate and Mughal forts, palaces, tombs and memorials, medieval Hindu and Islamic cities, step-wells, and observatories to Portuguese churches and Victorian and Art Deco ensembles to, finally, twentieth-century industrial and modern heritage sites. The natural and mixed-use sites include national parks of exceptional natural beauty and sites of long interaction between people and the landscape. India is a beautiful and lavishly illustrated publication for every traveler and lover of Indian culture.