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Copy and paste the link to find out more! http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/642
Bikini Atoll is one of the nine sites that UNESCO has added to its World Heritage List. Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands was home to a series of nuclear tests in the 1940s and 1950s. UNESCO said the tests “had major consequences on the geology and environment of the atoll and symbolised the dawn of the nuclear age.” Amid what appears to have been a contraversial decision, the addition of Bikini Atoll to the World Heritage List, Newsnight presenters asked how sites such as this should be remembered.
Watch newsnight for an interesting piece on what should World Heritage be, with Bikini Atoll being inscribed as a WH site the progamme had lots of interesting questions to ask! I’ll put a link on to the show in the morning when thier website has been updated!
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Sadly my planned programme of summer research with the Tilgher School in Herculaneum had been postponsed due to work commitments in Wales. But Niki Savvides will still be working in Herculaneum this June, so if I find out what she gets up to i’ll post it on here for you all to read about. Good luck Niki!
The new Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development (JCHMSD), is currently considering papers for inclusion in its first issue launching in 2011. The double-blind peer reviewed journal is edited by Ana Pereira Roders, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, and Ron van Oers, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, France. It stimulates and encourages research devoted to the sustainable development of cultural heritage and to the positive contribution of cultural heritage management towards a sustainable environment. Coverage includes, but is not limited to: Cultural heritage - assessment, management, marketing and publicity, tangible and intangible dimensions Sustainable development - preservation, conservation, restoration, rehabilitation, reconstruction, demolition, best practices, unsustainable development and consequent threats e.g. urban developments, large-scale agriculture, mining activity Cultural heritage and sustainable development - legislation, Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment, effects of climate change, ecological sustainability, social sustainability, economic sustainability The role of research and scholarship Teaching & curriculum development Submission:Submissions should be sent by email to the Editors before August 2010: A Ron van Oers: R.Vanoers@unesco.org Articles should be supplied in Word format. All authors’ details must be printed on a separate sheet and authors should not be identified anywhere else in the article. Submissions will be “concise-paper” articles of around 2,000 - 6,000 words. A title of no more than eight words should be provided. More information can be found at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/jchmsd.htm Website Contacts Original article can be found at UNESCO World Heritage News by following the link below: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/609
Below is an outline for this June’s collabortative research work between myslef and UCL’s NIkki Savvides. We will be on site at Herculaneum working with local school students carrying out further resarch in to the site, toursits and the local community. The aim of involving the local school group is to view the site from a totally new and different perspective and to hopefully gain a deeper insight into attitudes towards the site…whilst giving back to the students an invaluable real work experience and added awareness of their World Heritage Site Young Researchers at Herculaneum The Herculaneum Conservation project and the Herculanmeum Centre have organised a programme of internships for university students who have used of the archaeological site as a case study for thier theses. The various reserach interns were selected on the basis of thier research proposals and how much this proposal was compatible with the objectives of the HCP, and on what scope there was to obtain a profitable result that would benefit both parties. Two interns will be in Ercolano in Jube 2010 to carry on thier research in to cultural tourism: Niki Savvides (Cyprus; University College London) The management of visitors in the conservation of mosaics Claudine Gerrard (Wales; Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust/Swansea University) The legisation regrading cultural assests that infulence the particiapation of the local communities around archaeoligcal sites Contesto - giovani ricercatori agli scavi di Ercolano: l’Herculaneum Conservation Project e il Centro Herculaneum organizzano degli stage per studenti universitari che usano il sito archeologico di Ercolano come caso di studio per la tesi. I vari stagisti di ricerca sono stati selezionati, sulla base delle proposte di ricerca ricevute e su quanto esse siano compatibili con gli obiettivi dell’HCP, allo scopo di ottenere un risultato proficuo per entrambi le parti. Due stagisti saranno ad Ercolano a giugno 2010 per portare avanti la propria ricerca legata al turismo culturale: Niki Savvides (Cipro; University College London) La gestione dei visitatori per la conservazione dei mosaici Claudine Gerrard (Galles; Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust/Swansea University) Le normative per i beni culturali che influenzano la partecipazione delle comunità locali intorno ai siti archeologici Proposal for the students of Tilgher School: From the moment that Niki Savides and Claudine Gerrard return to Ercolano in June to continue their tourism research and visits to the site, the students of Tilgher could be involved directly in the field work gaining real work experience that would help the students undertaninding of the opportunities tied to tourism, not only as a passive observer but directly as a researcher. The Hercualneum Centre would organise a meeting with Niki and Claudine in which they would illustrate and explain thier work and the contirbutin that this work will make to the future management of visitors to the archaeolgical site. The meeting will be informal but managed in a way in which the value of their contirbution to the interns work would be evident to the Tilgher students. The students would then be involved in one or more tasks; 1. Carrying out questionaires with visitors to the archaeological site 2. Tracking visitors to map their movements around the archaeological site 3. Carrying out questionaires with citizens of Ercolano (parents and friends) 4. Carrying out questionaires of the same type with the younger generation of Ercolano Every student will recieve a certificate from the Herculaneum Centre as acknowleged ment of their pracitcal contirbution to the work. Proposta per degli studenti del Liceo Tilgher: Dal momento che Niki Savvides e Claudine Gerrard torneranno ad Ercolano a giugno per continuare con la loro ricerca sul turismo e le visite agli scavi, si potrebbero coinvolgere gli studenti del Tilgher nel lavoro sul campo fornendogli al contempo delle esperienze lavorative reali che aiuterebbero a capire l’ampiezza delle opportunità legate al turismo, non solo come hostess ma anche come ricercatori. Il Centro Herculaneum organizzerebbe un incontro nel quale Niki e Claudine illustrerebbero il proprio progetto e il contributo che esso avrà nella gestione dei visitatori agli scavi di Ercolano. L’incontro sarebbe informale ma gestito in modo che gli studenti Tilgher capiscano l’importanza del loro contributo. Gli studenti sarebbero poi coinvolti in uno o più compiti: 1. Questionari con i visitatori che vengono agli scavi di Ercolano 2. Tracking (inseguimento) dei visitatori per mappare i percorsi della visita all’interno degli scavi 3. Questionari con cittadini di Ercolano (parenti ed amici) 4. Questionari con se stessi in qualità di nuova generazione di Ercolanesi Ogni studente che partecipa riceverà un certificato di stage dal Centro Herculaneum come riconoscimento del contributo e della pratica svolta. (the outline was prepared by Sarah Court of the HCP and translated by me)
Recently there have been a number of occassions when I have been told by other people just what should constitute World Heritage, in most cases it appears to be that people have a vested interest in the particular site or area they are suggesting should be world heritage. But just what should World Heritage be? We have a clear set of guidelines available to us to refer to, those of the 1972 World Heritage Convention, so why do people ask the same question again and again, and why do they firmly believe ‘thier site’ should be on the ‘list’ of World Heritage sites when quite frankly it probably shouldn’t? Is there an underlying problem with peoples understanding of what the World Heritage Convention was and is all about, or is there a problem with the Convention?
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