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  • Conduct an impact assessment
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  • Assess the effectiveness of your management system
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Managing World Heritage

The objective of this manual is to provide a broad overview of heritage management in order to be useful for a range of heritag

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Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0

Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0

This updated version of the Enhancing our Heritage Toolkit offers a self-assessment methodology to identify how well a World He

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Managing Disaster Risk

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Impact Assessments for World Heritage

Impact Assessments for World Heritage

As the World Heritage Convention celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, over 1100 sites around the world are recognized as Wo

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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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  • 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

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Managing World Heritage

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  • About
  • Resources
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Manuals

  • Impact Assessments for World Heritage
  • Managing World Heritage
  • Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0
  • Managing 
Disaster Risk
  • Demo