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An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the existing List according to countries and continents. The existing distribution is compared to hypothetical distributions considered "balanced" from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a distribution of Sites according to population, area or per capita income. This paper wants to reveal facts about the existing distribution, and is designed to help a reasoned discussion to emerge.

In this keynote adress I discuss the case of The Hanseatic town of Visby, a small town in the island of Gotland, in the middle of Baltic Sea, which in 1995 was designated as Sweden's sixth and the world's 470th world heritage site. Using the findings from my earlier research project "Heritage Politics" as a starting point, I reflect over consequences of World Heritage production and address issues both at a local and specific level, and at a more global and abstract level, with the intention to show that the impact of World Heritage production both locally and at large, depend on how these levels become interconnected within the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage program.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Presentation -- Contents -- Action of National Preservation Organizations -- The Brazilian Experience of UNESCO World Heritage Sites -- 1 Brazil and UNESCO -- 2 World Heritage in Brazil -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Preservation Actors: Challenges and Risks of Managing World Heritage Cities -- 1 By Way of Introduction -- 2 By Way of Analysis -- 3 By Way of Conclusion -- References -- Current Challenges and Risks for Preservation of the Historic Center of Salvador -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Deterioration and Patrimonialization of the Historic Center of Salvador -- 3 Michel Parent's Mission and the Pelourinho Project: Tourism and Social Exclusion -- 4 The Historic Cities Program (PCH) -- 5 Interinstitutional Articulation and Inscription of CHS on the World Heritage List -- 6 Lina Bo Bardi and the Special Program for the Recovery of Historic Sites -- 7 The Recovery Plan for the Historic Center of Salvador (PRCHS) -- 8 The 7th Stage of the PRCHS and Social Housing in the CHS -- 9 The Late 2000s: Political Changes and New Programs and Plans for the CHS -- 10 The Private Initiative and the "Discovery" of the Todos os Santos Bay -- 11 Recent Interventions in Ladeira da Montanha -- 12 Final Considerations -- References -- World Heritage in Brazil: Reflection and Criticism -- 1 The Heritage Experience in Brazil -- 2 Brazil on the World Heritage List -- 3 Heritage as a Communicative Act: What Does It Communicate? -- 4 Final Considerations: Decolonizing Heritage and Memory -- References -- When Sensitive Memories Sites Become Heritage: The Case of the Valongo Wharf in Rio de Janeiro -- 1 The Slave Complex of Valongo and Its Spaces -- 2 Black Territory -- 3 Erasure and Resistance -- 4 Historical Site of Sensitive Memory -- References.

Abstract:Indigenous peoples' emphasis on protecting their cultural heritage (including land) through a human rights-based approach reveals the synergies and conflicts between the World Heritage Convention and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). This article focuses on how their insistence on the right to participate effectively in decision-making and centrality of free, prior, and informed consent as defined in the UNDRIP exposes the limitations of existing United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and World Heritage Convention processes effecting Indigenous peoples, cultures, and territories and how these shortcomings can be addressed. By tracking the evolution of the UNDRIP and the World Heritage Convention from their drafting and adoption to their implementation, it examines how the realization of Indigenous peoples' right to self-determination concerning cultural heritage is challenging international law to become more internally consistent in its interpretation and application and international organizations to operate in accordance with their constitutive instruments.

A statistical analysis of the UNESCO World Heritage List is presented. The World Heritage Convention intends to protect global heritage of outstanding value to mankind, but there has been great concern about the missing representativity of the member countries. There is a strongly biased distribution of Sites according to a country's population, area or per capita income. The paper reveals the facts but refrains from judging whether the existing distribution is appropriate or not. This task must be left to the discussion in the World Heritage Convention.

An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the existing List according to countries and continents. The existing distribution is compared to hypothetical distributions considered balanced from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a distribution of Sites according to population, area or per capita income. This paper wants to reveal facts about the existing distribution, and is designed to help a reasoned discussion to emerge.

AbstractThis article considers the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Convention in light of climate change, offering a state of the field review of climate responses for World Heritage sites (WHS). Opening with a brief review of UNESCO World Heritage activities around climate change, we then detail the primary impacts and risks that climate change pose for WHS and the reporting and monitoring systems in place to document and track these impacts. Looking forward, we examine the most promising pathways for World Heritage to advance in the domains of climate mitigation, adaptation, climate communication, and climate action.

"As the World Heritage Convention enters its 50th year, questions are being raised about its failures and successes. This topical book draws together perspectives across law and heritage research to examine the Convention and its implementation through the novel lens of compliance"--