UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List
WEBWorld Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, …
Galápagos Islands - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
WEBThe Galapagos archipelago is located about 1,000 km from continental Ecuador and is composed of 127 islands, islets and rocks, of which 19 are large and 4are inhabited. 97% of the total emerged surface (7,665,100 ha) was declared National Park in 1959. Human settlements are restricted to the remaining 3% in specifically zoned rural and urban ...
Interactive Map - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
WEBWorld Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, …
United States of America - UNESCO World Heritage Convention
WEBWorld Heritage Fund, States Parties Contributions. International Assistance. State of Conservation. Periodic Reporting Questionnaire 2008-2015. Periodic Reporting Questionnaire 2018-2024. Europe and North America, World Heritage Convention Regional Contact. Europe and North America, World Heritage Regional page.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Tentative Lists
WEBThe World Heritage Committee, Having examined Document WHC/19/43.COM/8A.Rev,; Stressing the importance of the process of revision and updating of Tentative Lists, as a tool for regional harmonisation of the World Heritage List and long-term planning of its development;; Encourages States Parties to seek as early as possible upstream advice …
World Heritage Centre - Cultural Landscapes
WEBWorld Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, …
World Heritage Centre - Natural World Heritage
WEBWorld Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, …
Online Map Platform - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
WEBThe World Heritage Online Map Platform (WHOMP) is an online GIS monitoring tool for World Heritage, linked to existing UNESCO databases, displaying georeferenced boundaries of World Heritage sites and their buffer zones. The project started with Europe and North America as a pilot region, harnessing synergies with the Third Cycle of …
UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List Statistics
WEBWorld Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, …
World Heritage Centre - Guidance and Toolkit for Impact …
WEBJul 29, 2022 · The Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessments in a World Heritage context provides a methodology and a set of easy-to-use tools for elaborating impact assessments to the best practice currently existing for World Heritage. It helps to identify and define the values and attributes of the site concerned, whether it is a cultural, …
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