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Landscapes for the World - Conserving a Global Heritage (Paperback)
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Landscapes for the World - Conserving a Global Heritage (Paperback)
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The best of the world's cultural landscapes - the results of
humanity's interaction with the environment over millennia - are a
legacy of enormous importance, comparable with great archaeological
monuments and works of art. Since 1992 the international community
has begun to define, identify, designate and protect these special
places, through UNESCO's World Heritage Programme, which now
inscribes World Heritage landscapes as well as World Heritage
sites. This book provides an accessible introduction to these
globally significant landscapes. Peter Fowler asks why these places
matter to all of us. In this book he explores the ideas,
iconography and values which have inspired the UNESCO programme;
visits all of the 38 landscapes designated in the period 1992-2003:
places such as the Tongariro volcano in New Zealand, the Portuguese
port wine region of Alto Douro and the rice-growing Cordilleras in
the Philippines; explores the complex politics involved in
designation; places Britain's landscape heritage in its global
context. Two World Heritage landscapes have been designated so far
in Britain - Blaenavon and Kew Gardens. St Kilda and the Lake
District are under consideration; and provides, with its discussion
of landscape management issues, an essential text for heritage and
nature conservation practitioners and students. This is a book
which emphasises the universality of cultural landscapes. They
reflect the myriad lifeways of humanity across the globe and
through time, and the best of them are all equally worthy of
conservation. Peter Fowler is now a consultant, writer and painter,
based in London and Languedoc. He was formerly Secretary to the
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), and Professor
of Archaeology at Newcastle University. He has been closely
involved with the selection of landscapes appropriate for World
Heritage inscription.
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