The outstanding universal value redefinition and the future of the World Heritage List
Keywords:
World Heritage Convention, Cultural Heritage, Outstanding Universal Value, World Heritage List, Authenticity/Integrity, Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage ConventionAbstract
The concept of outstanding universal value is the central key of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. However, its interpretation and practical identification have changed over the more than 30 years of its implementation. There has been a substantial change in the philosophy of the Convention aimed to consider not only the heritage values themselves, but above all, their geographical representation, so that the outstanding universal value as representative of unique and iconic properties of world heritage has evolved towards its meaning as “representative examples of the best”. As a result we are witnessing a crisis of the mythical value of the List itself and a continual questioning of its credibility, whose key elements are evaluated in this article.Downloads
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