Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development: Volume 14 Issue 2

Past, present and future challenges for Australia's indigenous heritage management national policy

Hilary du Cros

Australia appears to be encountering a crisis in the protection of certain heritage places, despite its strong reputation in heritage conservation built up since the 1970s…

A review of ontologies for augmented reality cultural heritage applications

Apostolos Vlachos, Maria Perifanou, Anastasios A. Economides

The purpose of this paper is to review ontologies and data models currently in use for augmented reality (AR) applications, in the cultural heritage (CH) domain, specifically in…

Forest conservation by the indigenous Baduy community in the form of customary law

Donna Asteria, Putri Alvernia, Berliana Nur Kholila, Sabarina Isma Husein, Farha Widya Asrofani

The Baduy tribe has its own uniqueness and values regarding the forest; it manages the forest using customary law to keep it sustainable. This research aims to describe the…

Not all deities were transformed in Igboland: a cultural history of the Api-Opi deity

Mathias Chukwudi Isiani, Stanley Jachike Onyemechalu, Somtochukwu C. Osinem, Sopuluchukwu Amarachukwu Dimelu, Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani

This study examines the cultural history of the Api-Opi deity in Opi, Nsukka, Enugu State of Nigeria. The study sets out to examine the re-emergence of youthful worshippers of…

Documenting cultural heritage in an INSPIRE-based 3D GIS for risk and vulnerability analysis

Elisabetta Colucci, Francesca Matrone, Francesca Noardo, Vanessa Assumma, Giulia Datola, Federica Appiotti, Marta Bottero, Filiberto Chiabrando, Patrizia Lombardi, Massimo Migliorini, Enrico Rinaldi, Antonia Spanò, Andrea Lingua

The study, within the Increasing Resilience of Cultural Heritage (ResCult) project, aims to support civil protection to prevent, lessen and mitigate disasters impacts on cultural…

A holistic conservation and development approach for Gaziantep Rumkale archaeological site

M. Serhat Yenice, Emine Yagmur

The aim of this paper is to determine the scope and content for a holistic conservation and development strategies in the case of Gaziantep Rumkale. This approach seeks an answer…

Heritage futures: A conversation

Cornelius Holtorf, Annalisa Bolin

This article explores the concept of “heritage futures”, the role of heritage in managing relations between present and future societies. It assesses how thinking strategically…

Ancient routes, new gateways: a systematic literature review of China's cultural route heritage

Ke Zhang, Almudena González del Valle-Brena, Ignacio Ramos Riera, Jingli Zhao

The study aims to understand how cultural route heritage is conceptualized and managed in China by systematically reviewing the research literature on Chinese cultural route…

From mine industries to a place of culture, tourism, research and higher education: case study of the great mine Serbariu

Sara Pau, Giulia Contu, Vincenzo Rundeddu

This study aims to explore how closed factories could be transformed and provide a path for sustainable development for a territory. The authors focus on the case of the Great…