http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/6763.aspx

The UK Government believes that the historic environment is an asset of enormous cultural, social, economic and environmental value.

They state that the historic environment ‘makes a very real contribution to our quality of life and the quality of our places’. Their statement on the historic environment aims to help the Government to realise its vision for the historic environment, and to assist them in working jointly with others to achieve their aims. In it the Government set out thier understanding of the value of the historic environment, and the many roles that Government and others can play.

Just how uesful is this document, and how realistic are it’s aims?

http://www.bikiniatoll.com/home.html

Click 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!