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:

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