Natural scape7/23/2023 5-10 September 2001, Wakayama City, Japan. UNESCO World Heritage Centre / Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan / Wakayama Prefectural Government (ed.): UNESCO Thematic Expert Meeting on Asia-Pacific Sacred Mountains.World Heritage Thematic Expert Meeting on Vineyard Cultural Landscapes (Hungary, July 2001).States Parties Meeting towards a joint nomination of areas of the Alpine Arc for the World Heritage List, Turin, Italy, July 5-8, 2001.Regional Expert Meeting on Plantation systems in the Carribean, Paramaribo, Suriname, July 17-19, 2001.Meeting of Experts on Cultural Landscapes in the Caribbean: Identification and Safeguarding Strategies, Santiago de Cuba, November 7-10, 2005.Thematic meeting of experts on the agro-pastoral cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean, Meyrueis, Lozère, France, September 20-22, 2007.Meetings World Heritage Regional Thematic Expert Meetings on Cultural Landscapes 1992 - 2007 The inclusion of such landscapes on the World Heritage List is justifiable by virtue of the powerful religious, artistic or cultural associations of the natural element rather than material cultural evidence, which may be insignificant or even absent. The final category is the associative cultural landscape. At the same time it exhibits significant material evidence of its evolution over time. continuing landscape is one which retains an active social role in contemporary society closely associated with the traditional way of life, and in which the evolutionary process is still in progress.Its significant distinguishing features are, however, still visible in material form. a relict (or fossil) landscape is one in which an evolutionary process came to an end at some time in the past, either abruptly or over a period.Such landscapes reflect that process of evolution in their form and component features. This results from an initial social, economic, administrative, and/or religious imperative and has developed its present form by association with and in response to its natural environment. The second category is the organically evolved landscape. This embraces garden and parkland landscapes constructed for aesthetic reasons which are often (but not always) associated with religious or other monumental buildings and ensembles. The most easily identifiable is the clearly defined landscape designed and created intentionally by man. Categories and SubcategoriesĬultural landscapes fall into three main categories ( Operational Guidelines 2008, Annex3), namely: The protection of traditional cultural landscapes is therefore helpful in maintaining biological diversity. The continued existence of traditional forms of land-use supports biological diversity in many regions of the world. Protection of cultural landscapes can contribute to modern techniques of sustainable land-use and can maintain or enhance natural values in the landscape. Cultural landscapes often reflect specific techniques of sustainable land-use, considering the characteristics and limits of the natural environment they are established in, and a specific spiritual relation to nature. The term "cultural landscape" embraces a diversity of manifestations of the interaction between humankind and its natural environment. They are illustrative of the evolution of human society and settlement over time, under the influence of the physical constraints and/or opportunities presented by their natural environment and of successive social, economic and cultural forces, both external and internal. The Committee acknowledged that cultural landscapes represent the "combined works of nature and of man" designated in Article 1 of the Convention. The Committee at its 16th session adopted guidelines concerning their inclusion in the World Heritage List. In 1992 the World Heritage Convention became the first international legal instrument to recognise and protect cultural landscapes. To date, 121 properties with 6 transboundary properties (1 delisted property) on the World Heritage List have been included as cultural landscapes. They are part of our collective identity. testify to the creative genius, social development and the imaginative and spiritual vitality of humanity. To reveal and sustain the great diversity of the interactions between humans and their environment, to protect living traditional cultures and preserve the traces of those which have disappeared, these sites, called cultural landscapes, have been inscribed on the World Heritage List.Ĭultural landscapes - cultivated terraces on lofty mountains, gardens, sacred places. Others, associated in the minds of the communities with powerful beliefs and artistic and traditional customs, embody an exceptional spiritual relationship of people with nature. Certain sites reflect specific techniques of land use that guarantee and sustain biological diversity.
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