Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development: Volume 8 Issue 1

Pay or preserve: a new approach to valuing cultural heritage

Abdelhamid Boujdad Mkadem, Abderrahman Zakriti, Paul Nieuwenhuysen

The purpose of this paper is to initiate a new approach to cultural heritage value through the highly revealing example of Chefchaouen city, Morocco. This study relates to…

Conditional values of urban heritage: context and scale

Sveinung K. Berg

The purpose of this paper is to show the gap between the authorised heritage discourse (AHD) as practised within Norwegian heritage management and the recommendations forwarded by…

Cultural heritage in sustainable development: Stone houses as environmental assets in the East Mediterranean

Michel Soto Chalhoub

Preservation of historic structures meets ecological criteria of sustainable development. In Mount Lebanon, the traditional house is a cultural asset built of native stone…

Rethinking and revaluating UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Lessons experimented within the USA

Barry Louis Stiefel

Having more than 1,000 sites on the World Heritage List raises questions regarding what world heritage means. The re-evaluation of heritage sites within the USA will be conducted…

Bird impacts on heritage buildings: Australian practitioners’ perspectives and experiences

Dirk H.R. Spennemann, Melissa Pike, Maggie J. Watson

There is much anecdotal evidence that birds and their droppings are a major problem for the heritage profession. The purpose of this paper is to examine how serious heritage…