Les défis de l'évaluation économique du patrimoine urbain des pays en développement / Methods for the economic valuation of urban heritage: a sustainability-based approach
Publications associées : - Michel VERNIERES (coord.), Valéry PATIN, Christine MENGIN, Vincent GERONIMI, Laurent DALMAS, Jean-François NOEL, Jessy TSANG KING SANG, Méthodologies d'évaluation économique du patrimoine urbain : une approche par la soutenabilité, Paris, AFD, coll. A savoir 13, mai 2012, 213 p. (ISSN : 2105-553 X) - Michel VERNIERES (coord.), Valéry PATIN, Christine MENGIN, Vincent GERONIMI, Laurent DALMAS, Jean-François NOEL, Jessy TSANG KING SANG, Methods for the Economic Valuation of Urban Heritage : a Sustainability -based Approach, Paris, AFD, coll. A savoir 13, oct. 2012, 189 p. (ISSN : 2105-553 X) ; Today, development actors see urban heritage as a resource for their territory, which is why they need to define its economic value. They seek to measure its economic value when the economic analysis provides traditional tools (use values only) too fuzzy to succeed in. This evaluation is a delicate exercise as such heritage is generally a complex reality, consisting of four interdependent economic, cultural, social and environmental dimensions. Our methodology leads us to propose an operational analysis grid in a coherent framework aimed at evaluating the economic interest of project in rehabilitating and promoting urban heritage and using different kind of indicators (both monetary and non-monetary; already available in the literature or to be locally collected), when the main limitation in economic evaluation of urban heritage in developing countries often stands in the non accessibility of the main data required. We first use an economic approach to urban heritage founded on its multidimensional character and try to transpose the evaluation methods used in the field of the environment and natural resources to the field of urban heritage. We also stress that the question of sustainability is essential in the case of urban heritage because, as for any heritage, it is a question of transmitting it to future generations, taking into account the interaction between the four different dimensions of ...