World Heritage and Tourism
World Heritage and Tourism

Author: Bailey Ashton Adie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0429014961

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This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the phenomenon of World Heritage tourism through a critical, global perspective that encompasses both supply and demand. Individual chapters critically engage with four main topics crucial to this subject area. A chapter on visitors defines the World Heritage tourist segment, highlighting on-site behavior and visitor needs. Building on this, a marketing chapter questions the functionality of the World Heritage brand as a tourist attractor and instead argues that tourist growth is due to effective marketing following World Heritage inscription. The third chapter presents a holistic management framework centred on planning, place, and people, while the concluding chapter situates World Heritage tourism in a global context, discussing threats such as climate change. International case studies from a wide variety of both natural and cultural sites provide a representative discussion of the topic across varying geographical, political, and cultural contexts. This will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers, and academics in the fields of tourism, heritage studies, and geography, as well as practitioners in these fields who wish to better understand the crucial interplay of these areas.

World Heritage
World Heritage

Author: Simon C. Woodward

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-11-09

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1000777294

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World Heritage: Concepts, Management and Conservation presents an insight into discussions and debates surrounding the UNESCO World Heritage List, and the properties on it. Since its creation 50 years ago, the World Heritage Convention has been lauded as one of the most successful international expressions of cooperation, whilst at the same time being widely criticised as producing an overly commercialised and globalised sense of heritage. Offering an in-depth discussion of both sides of the debate, this book explores these issues by discussing the following topics: • How the World Heritage Convention was conceived and how it is operationalised; • How the World Heritage concept is currently being used and misused; • The benefits of inscription – perceived and actual existential threats faced by World Heritage Site managers including climate change, urban development, overtourism, military action and natural disaster; • The future of World Heritage as an instrument for conservation and economic development. Case studies from a global range of World Heritage Sites are included throughout, to showcase some of the successes and also missuses of World Heritage status. This book will be of pivotal interest to students and scholars in the fields of tourism, heritage, archaeology, natural resource management and development studies.

Archaeologies of Art
Archaeologies of Art

Author: Inés Domingo Sanz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1315434318

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This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity. Examples stretch from the Paleolithic to contemporary world and include rock art, body art, and portable arts. Ethnographic studies of contemporary art production and use, such as among contemporary Aboriginal groups, are included to help illuminate artistic practices and meanings in the past. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches used by archaeologists to incorporate visual arts into their analysis of past cultures and should be of great value to archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress.

Australia's Megafires
Australia's Megafires

Author: Stephen van Leeuwen

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2023-02-01

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 1486316662

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The Australian wildfires of 2019–20 (Black Summer) were devastating and unprecedented. These megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly of forests in southern and eastern Australia. Many of the fires were uncontrollable. These megafires affected many of Australia’s most important conservation areas and severely impacted threatened species and ecological communities. They were a consequence of climate change – and offered a glimpse of how this is likely to continue to affect our future. Australia’s Megafires includes contributions by more than 200 researchers and managers with direct involvement in the management and conservation of the biodiversity affected by the Black Summer wildfires. It provides a comprehensive review of the impacts of these fires on all components of biodiversity, and on Indigenous cultural values. These fires also triggered an extraordinary and highly collaborative response by governments, NGOs, Indigenous groups, scientists, landholders and others, seeking to recover the fire-affected species and environments – to restore Country. This book documents that response. It draws lessons that should be heeded to sustain that recovery and to be better prepared for the inevitable future comparable catastrophes. Such lessons are of global relevance, for wildfires increasingly threaten biodiversity and livelihoods across the globe.

Values in Heritage Management
Values in Heritage Management

Author: Erica Avrami

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2019-12-03

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 160606620X

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Bringing together leading conservation scholars and professionals from around the world, this volume offers a timely look at values-based approaches to heritage management. Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based methods have come to influence conservation, takes stock of emerging approaches to values in heritage practice and policy, identifies common challenges and related spheres of knowledge, and proposes specific areas in which the development of new approaches and future research may help advance the field. The free online edition of this open-access book is available at www.getty.edu/publications/heritagemanagement/ and includes zoomable illustrations. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.

The Hawkesbury River
The Hawkesbury River

Author: Paul Boon

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2017-07

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 0643107606

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The Hawkesbury River is the longest coastal river in New South Wales. A vital source of water and food, it has a long Aboriginal history and was critical for the survival of the early British colony at Sydney. The Hawkesbury’s weathered shores, cliffs and fertile plains have inspired generations of artists. It is surrounded by an unparalleled mosaic of national parks, including the second-oldest national park in Australia, Ku-ring-gai National Park. Although it lies only 35 km north of Sydney, to many today the Hawkesbury is a ‘hidden river’ – its historical and natural significance not understood or appreciated. Until now, the Hawkesbury has lacked an up-to-date and comprehensive book describing how and when the river formed, how it functions ecologically, how it has influenced humans and their patterns of settlement and, in turn, how it has been affected by those settlements and their people. The Hawkesbury River: A Social and Natural History fills this gap. With chapters on the geography, geology, hydrology and ecology of the river through to discussion of its use by Aboriginal and European people and its role in transport, defence and culture, this highly readable and richly illustrated book paints a picture of a landscape worthy of protection and conservation. It will be of value to those who live, visit or work in the region, those interested in Australian environmental history, and professionals in biology, natural resource management and education.

Take a Walk
Take a Walk

Author: John Daly

Publisher: Boolarong Press

Published: 2022-05-25

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1922643416

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Artists, poets, writers, naturalists and bushwalkers have all found inspiration amid the distinctive blue haze and hidden beauty of the majestic Blue Mountains. Discover amazing landforms of towering sandstone cliffs; plummeting waterfalls; vegetation communities from open eucalypt forests to fragile hanging gardens suspended on rugged escarpments; art from the world’s oldest living civilisation, and history from Australia’s colonial days. All this on the doorstep of our largest urban development. There are walks to suit everyone in this totally revised and updated edition. Adventures for families with children, active travellers and hard-core bushwalkers. Take a short stroll to an expansive lookout; enjoy pleasant half-day or full-day walks, or test yourself with more challenging scrambles as you negotiate historic passes or scale mountain peaks. Overnight walks through the spectacular Grose Valley and along Australia’s second most popular multi-day walk, the Six Foot Track, have been described. Detailed notes on evolution, environment, access and facilities will help you to plan and enjoy your trip. Colour maps and photos complement the walk descriptions. Particular attention has been paid to walks that start and finish at railway stations. Use this book to find your own special place in this unique World Heritage Listed area.