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Building peace in the minds of men and women

Database of National Cultural Heritage Laws Glossary

A (12) | B (3) | C (14) | D (5) | E (3) | F (6) | G (1) | H (1) | I (8) | L (6) | M (8) | N (2) | O (4) | P (8) | R (11) | S (7) | T (5) | U (2) | V (1) | W (1)

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Name Description
Natural Heritage

Natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view; geological and physiographical formations and precisely delineated areas which constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals and plants of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation; and natural sites or precisely delineated natural areas of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty.

 

Source: UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, art. 2, November 16, 1972.
Norms

An accepted standard or a way of behaving or doing things that most people agree with.

 

Source: Cambridge Dictionary Online, 2018, 20 November 2018.