The World Heritage Convention, Parks Canada and Quebec City: They Have Something in Common

Chapter 5 analyses the evolving conception and protection of landscape in the World Heritage Convention. First, it traces the development of landscape protection from its early conceptual dependency on nature, to the incorporation of ‘cultural landscapes’ within the Convention’s scope in 1992. It then discusses the typology of cultural landscapes, issues of representativeness and the implications of the Word Heritage system for landscape protection globally, as well as locally. In this regard, a number of cases are analysed which, on the one hand, support the World Heritage Convention’s instrumental role in landscape governance, but which on the other, highlight the problems involved in ascribing World Heritage status to living landscapes from a spatial justice perspective.

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The World Heritage Convention in the Arctic and Indigenous People: Time to Reform?

The Yearbook of Polar Law Online ◽

10.1163/1876-8814_009 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 226-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Simon Marsden

Keyword(s):

Environmental Protection ◽

Indigenous People ◽

World Heritage ◽

The Arctic ◽

World Heritage Convention ◽

World Heritage List ◽

The World ◽

United Nations Declaration ◽

High Level

This article analyses the role of the World Heritage Convention in the Arctic, particularly the role of Indigenous people in environmental protection and governance of natural, mixed and transboundary properties. It outlines the Convention in an Arctic context, profiles Arctic properties on the World Heritage List and Tentative List, and considers Arctic properties that may appear on the List of World Heritage in Danger. It gives detailed consideration to examples of Arctic natural, mixed, and potentially transboundary, properties of greatest significance to Indigenous people with reference to their environmental protection and management. In doing so, it reviews and analyses recent high-level critiques of the application of the Convention in the Arctic. Conclusions follow, the most significant of which is that the Convention and its Operational Guidelines must be reformed to be consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.

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Geological World Heritage: a revised global framework for the application of criterion (viii) of the World Heritage Convention

10.2305/iucn.ch.2021.12.en ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

P.J. Mc Keever ◽

G.M. Narbonne

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Present Report ◽

World Heritage ◽

World Heritage Convention ◽

Geomorphological Heritage ◽

World Heritage List ◽

The World ◽

Thematic Approach ◽

Potential Impact

In 2005, IUCN published a report entitled Geological World Heritage: A Global Framework (Dingwall et al., 2005). The aim of that report was to discuss and advise on the role of the World Heritage Convention in recognising and protecting geological and geomorphological heritage. The aim of the present report is to fully revise and update the 2005 report and to look at the potential impact of the new UNESCO Global Geopark designation on future inscriptions to the World Heritage List under criterion (viii). This aim has been achieved through a thorough review of the 2005 report, and in particular the thematic approach to geology that the report used. This has led to the proposal of a rationalised set of 11 themes to guide the application of criterion (viii). This report also examines the processes of comparative analysis and questions of site integrity in relation to properties listed for geological and geomorphological values.

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