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Title: Ensuring the viability of cultural heritage : the role of international heritage law for Pacific Island states
Related: Baldacchino, Godfrey and Niles, Daniel. Island futures : conservation and development across the Asia-Pacific region, p.37-51
DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-53989-6_4
Related: Global environmental studies
Publisher: Tokyo ; New York : Springer
Date: 2011
Author/Creator: Techera, Erika J
Description: In recent decades, there has been increasing recognition of the economic, environmental and social importance and value of cultural heritage. At the same time cultural heritage has come under increasing pressure as the processes of modernization and globalization have been compounded by environmental degradation, with the threat of further losses due to climate change. The international community has responded with a rapid expansion of international law concerned with protecting all aspects of cultural heritage. In the past, greater attention was given to monumental heritage but more recently the focus has turned to include intangible elements, providing greater universality in the coverage of international heritage law. This chapter will focus upon the small island developing states of the Pacific and the approaches taken to cultural heritage conservation in that region. Particular attention will be drawn to governance gaps and the opportunities that the Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage may offer. Barriers to implementation will also be explored as they remain significant issues for the small island developing states in the Pacific region which have considerable cultural heritage but less legal recognition and protection of it.
Description: 15 page(s)
Subject Keyword: cultural diversity
Subject Keyword: cultural heritage
Subject Keyword: culture
Subject Keyword: intangible heritage
Subject Keyword: international law
Subject Keyword: legal pluralism
Subject Keyword: Pacific
Resource Type: book chapter
Organisation: Macquarie University. Centre for Environmental Law

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/140093
Identifier: ISBN:9784431539889
Identifier: mq-rm-2010006486
Language: eng

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