World Heritage Cities Programme
World Heritage Cities Programme
© UNESCO / Van Oers / Bukchon Hanok Village, Republic of Korea
The World Heritage Cities ...
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Cultural Landscapes
There exist a great variety of Landscapes that are representative of the different regions of the world. Combined works of nature and humankind, ...
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UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize For The Safeguarding And Management of ...
UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes
Cultural Landscape of ...
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World Heritage Earthen Architecture Programme (WHEAP)
Earthen architecture is one of the most original and powerful expressions of our ability to create a built environment with readily available ...
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World Heritage Forest Programme
Ranging in size from 18 hectares (Vallée de Mai, Seychelles), to 8.8 million hectares (Lake Baikal, Russian Federation), World Heritage ...
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World Heritage in Europe Today
World Heritage attracts and fascinates: media around the world publish thousands of articles about it every year and countries invest a great ...
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World Heritage Marine Programme
World HeritageMarine Programme
50 flagship marine protected areas of Outstanding Universal Value:Beacons of Hope In a Changing ...
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Renewable Energy Transition and World Heritage
Renewable Energy Transition and World Heritage
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Climate change is one of the defining issues of our ...
#OurLakeOhrid Photo & Story Contest
#OurLakeOhrid
Photo & Story Contest
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The Photo Contest was organized in the framework of the Project: "Towards ...
30th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention. Urbino workshop (Italy) on “Partnerships for ...
The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was signed on 16 November 1972. The 30th Anniversary ...
Analytical summary of the state of conservation of World Heritage properties (2008)
At its 32nd session (Quebec City, 2008), the World Heritage Committee discussed at length the issues related to the state of conservation of ...
Biodiversity Conservation in Regions of Armed Conflict: Protecting World Heritage in the ...
A program aimed at preserving the integrity of World Heritage natural Sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The forests of the ...
Case study: Dorset
Located on the south coast of the United Kingdom, the nominated site comprises approximately 155km of undeveloped coastline and countryside. The ...
Global Strategy: Support to agro-pastoral cultural landscapes
Pastoralism is defined as a system of livestock farming which depends, for the most part, on the generally non-intensive use of ...
Management of World Heritage Sites in Armenia
Management of World Heritage Sites in Armenia
UNESCO seeks to encourage the identification, protection, preservation and ...
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region
Towards strengthened governanceof the shared transboundary natural and cultural heritage of the Lake Ohrid region
This European Union funded ...
Open-Ended Working Group for the revision of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly of ...
At its 19th session (UNESCO, 2013), the General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention decided (Resolution 19 GA 4) to fully ...
Periodic Reporting 1st Cycle: Europe and North America
The First Cycle of the Periodic Reporting exercise was carried out from 2001 to 2006 for Europe and from 2001 to 2005 for North America. The ...
Periodic Reporting 2nd Cycle: Europe and North America region (2012-2015)
Periodic Reporting 2nd Cycle Europe and North America region (2012-2015)
In Europe, 49 States Parties and 432 World Heritage properties (382 ...
Preparatory assistance for the nomination of the architectural work of Le Corbusier (Argentina, ...
Le Corbusier is one of the greatest architects of the 20th century, and his work both built and written have had a huge impact on the world, and ...