Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development: Volume 11 Issue 4

Climate change adaptation planning for cultural heritage, a national scale methodology

Cathy Daly, Caroline Engel Purcell, Jacqui Donnelly, Clara Chan, Michael MacDonagh, Peter Cox

Ireland's Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 established the requirement for a National Adaptation Framework (NAF) composed of nine sectoral plans, of which Built…

Contextualizing “traditional crafts” in historic urban areas

Niyati Jigyasu

Traditional crafts, practised by local communities, contribute significantly towards intangible heritage. The study situates traditional crafts in historic urban areas…

Towards an inclusive curation of WWI heritage: integrating historical aerial photographs, digital museum applications and landscape markers in “Flanders Fields” (Belgium)

Birger Stichelbaut, Gertjan Plets, Keir Reeves

Over a century of state-sponsored construction of monuments, historic mythmaking and nationalist framings of WWI has ensured that it has become notoriously difficult to present…

Online communities and their contribution to local heritage knowledge

Manal Ginzarly, Jacques Teller

The purpose of this study is to explore the potential of social media as a framework for people-centered heritage. With a focus on the interpretation and display of heritage by…

Heritage-led development and historic churches: professional roles in the case of Hamra, Sweden

Maria Nyström

Departing from a study of a heritage-led economic development project of a Swedish historic church, the purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss how professional roles…

Embedding sustainability dimensions in university collections management: a “scientific journey” into a natural history museum

Michela Magliacani, Daniela Sorrentino

The purpose of this research aims at extending the knowledge on whether and how universities include sustainability dimensions in managing their collections. Precisely, the study…

Late Ottoman period preventive health institutions in Istanbul: an architectural approach

Sümeyye Gider, Zeynep Gül Ünal

The preventive health institutions were founded in Istanbul as a result of the Ottoman Empire's policy to fight epidemic diseases that affected all parts of the world in the…

The phonological process of Rongga language from the phonemic into phonetic realization

I Nyoman Suparsa

The current study aims firstly to explain the origin of the morphemic segments of Rongga language, either at the phonological or the phonetic level and the terms of the morphemic…

Vernacular rural heritage in Turkey: an intuitional overview for a new living experience

Esin Hasgül, İnci Olgun, Erhan Karakoç

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize passive energy refurbishment of vernacular building heritages and propose new application principles of sustainability from these…

Social media as a pathway to environmental conservation in protected areas: a case study on Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve

Zemenu Bires, Sahil Raj

The purpose of this study was to uncover the impact of social media in supporting environmental conservation (EC) in protected areas.

Protecting silent identities of heritage from the ruining living identities in current and futuristic creative cities: the case of Egypt

Mohamed Hesham Madbouly Khalil

With the increasing number of creative cities as well as the reported incidences of deterioration to physical heritage, this paper aims to protect silent identities of heritage…

Digital cultural heritage of rural tourism facilities in Poland

Karol Król

At the turn of 2018 and 2019, a certain era in the history of Polish Internet came to an end. Most of the websites of rural tourism facilities hosted on free servers no longer…

A risk-reduction framework for urban cultural heritage: a comparative study on Italian historic centres

Francesca Giuliani, Rosa Grazia De Paoli, Enrica Di Miceli

The purpose of this paper is to present and validate a large-scale methodology for risk assessment and management in cultural heritage sites, taking into account their specific…

Environmental ethics, religious taboos and the Osun-Osogbo grove, Nigeria

Yemi Adewoyin, Ekene Michael Mokwenye, Ndidiamaka Vivian Ugwu

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) identifies building and development, a major corollary of population growth and urbanization, as the…

A quantitative approach for evaluating intervention-value relations: historic mosques of Manisa, Turkey

Suna Büyükkılıç Koşun, Mine Hamamcıoğlu Turan

This study aims to propose a systematic way of evaluating the impact of historic and current interventions on cultural asset values of monuments that have preserved their…

How to assess the impact of commercially reused immovable cultural heritage on local, sustainable development in a holistic way?

Zdzisława Elżbieta Niemczewska

The paper is to propose a tool for holistic impact assessment of commercially reused immovable cultural heritage resources on local, sustainable development along with the…

Formation of clusters in cultural heritage – strategies for optimizing resources in museums

Héctor Moreno - Mendoza, Agustín Santana - Talavera, José Molina - González

The purpose of this study is to affirm that it is possible to segment visitors of cultural heritage into homogeneous groups according to a series of characteristics to detect the…

Low carbon of lime plaster repair: life cycle assessment approach in achieving sustainable maintenance management for heritage buildings

Brit Anak Kayan, Deanne Seanuau Kely Jitilon, Mohammad Nazmi Mohd Azaman

Low carbon repair epitomises sustainable maintenance management for heritage buildings. However, there is little recognition of this aspect, coupled with impractical assessment of…

Dry stone constructions – intangible cultural heritage and sustainable environment

Celeste Jiménez de Madariaga

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how safeguarding intangible cultural heritage contributes to environmental conservation and favours sustainable development of natural…

Becoming a smart old town – How to manage stakeholder collaboration and cultural heritage

Ulrika Lundh Snis, Anna Karin Olsson, Iréne Bernhard

Within the ongoing digitalization of society and dimensions of integration, equality, citizen needs, sustainability and quality of life are of increasing importance as driving…