Our Creative Diversity
Our Creative Diversity

Author: World Commission on Culture and Development

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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Explores the interactions between culture and development and puts forward proposals in the form of an international agenda aimed at motivating people to recognize cultural challenges.

Reshaping Australia's Economy
Reshaping Australia's Economy

Author: John Nieuwenhuysen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-12-12

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521011204

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This book draws together analysts to contribute to a major assessment and 'audit' of the Australian economy.

Hanoi
Hanoi

Author: William Stewart Logan

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780868404431

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This text traces the history of the fabric of Hanoi from its origins 1000 years ago. It examines how the shape of the city reflects changing political, cultural and economic conditions over a millennium of intermittent warfare and waves of cultural change and migration. Drawing on his experience as heritage advisor, the author looks at the challenges facing those who seek to preserve the best features of Hanoi's architecture and streetscapes, while improving the living conditions of its residents.

Creating Our Common Future
Creating Our Common Future

Author: William John Campbell

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2001-04

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781571812803

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"The overarching theme of this book is that if education is to avoid the risk of condemning itself to irrelevance, it must contribute to ... the achievement of unity while retaining, respecting, valuing and and encouraging diversity." So states Campbell (emeritus, U. of Queensland) in his introduction to nine essays on educating for a sustainable future. Published jointly with UNESCO as part of a World Education Fellowship project. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

40 Years World Heritage Convention
40 Years World Heritage Convention

Author: Marie-Theres Albert

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-08-17

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 3110424614

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Since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention in 1972, the notion that cultural and natural heritage need to be protected and properly utilized has gained popularity. Over time, however, such utilization concepts were less focused on ideas of sustainability and became increasingly influenced by commercial interests. For the first time, this publication attempts to elaborate the development of the World Heritage Convention, the Convention itself in its different facets and how it evolved into one of the most important UNESCO instruments for the protection of cultural and natural heritage. It will be shown that the protection and utilization of heritage is a highly complex political, participatory and interdisciplinary process. This publication discusses these developments and suggests potential solutions in order to deal with such unintended trends.

Words and Worlds
Words and Worlds

Author:

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781853598272

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World Languages Review aims to examine the sociolinguistic situation of the world: to describe the linguistic diversity that currently characterizes humanity, to evaluate trends towards linguistic uniformity, and to establish a set of guidelines or language planning measures that favour the weaker or more endangered linguistic communities, so that anyone engaged in language planning -government officials, institution leaders, researchers, and community members- can implement these measures.

Global Citizenship
Global Citizenship

Author: Nigel Dower

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 113670664X

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The idea of global citizenship is that human beings are "citizens of the world." Whether or not we are global citizens is a topic of great dispute, however those who take part in the debate agree that a global citizen is a member of the wider community of humanity, the world, or a similar whole which is wider than that of a nation-state or other political community of which we are normally thought to be citizens. Through four main sections, the contributors to Global Citizenship discuss global challenges and attempt to define the ways in which globalization is changing the world in which we live. Offering a breadth of coverage to the core rheme of the individual in a global world, Global Citizenship combines two factors-the idea of global responsibility and the development of institutional structures through which this responsibility can be exercised.