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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pompeii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		2 As classified officially by UNESCO Herculaneum (in modern Italian Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano.
		UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945.
		A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pompeii (787 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Official Site
		World Heritage Expo to be Held in Northeastern China
		The 31st session of the World Heritage Committee (2007)
		Decisions adopted at the 30 th session of the World Heritage Committee
	whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm (226 words)

	ICOMOS and the UNESCO World Heritage Convention
		The World Heritage Committee has, among other essential functions, to identify, on the basis of nominations submitted by States Parties to the Convention, cultural, natural and mixed properties of outstanding universal value which are to be protected under the Convention and to list those properties on the World Heritage List.
		ICOMOS is named in the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention as one of the three formal advisory bodies to the World Heritage Committee, along with the World Conservation Union (IUCN), based at Gland (Switzerland), and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), based in Rome (Italy).
		It is the professional and scientific advisor to the World Heritage Committee on all aspects of the cultural heritage.
	www.international.icomos.org /world_heritage/icomoswh_eng.htm (1486 words)

	IUCN WCPA World Heritage Programme
		The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1972.
		The Convention is governed by the World Heritage Committee supported by The UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the secretariat for the Convention, based at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
		The Global Training Strategy for World Cultural and Natural Heritage http://whc.unesco.org/archive/repcom01-annexes.htm#annex10, was adopted by the World Heritage Committee at its 25th session in Helsinki, Finland, 11-16 December 2001.
	www.iucn.org /themes/wcpa/wheritage/wheritageindex.htm (1021 words)

	Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park: World Heritage
		Australia was one of the first countries in the world to sign the World Heritage Convention, which came into force in 1975.
		The World Heritage Convention was created in response to human kind causing widespread change and damage to natural areas.
		Nominations for the World Heritage List are made by the Australian Government in consultation with state and territory governments, local communities, and after seeking advice, from specialist agencies such as the Department of the Environment and Heritage and CSIRO.
	www.deh.gov.au /parks/uluru/wheritage.html (1083 words)

	World Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The World Heritage Convention includes a means of identifying sites around the world that have sufficient 'outstanding universal cultural or natural value' to merit their recognition as significant parts of our World Heritage.
		The World Heritage Bureau is the executive body of the World Heritage Committee, elected by the Committee at its annual meeting.
		The World Commission of Protected Areas (WCPA) is one of the six voluntary commissions of the IUCN (The World Conservation Union) and is the largest worldwide network of protected area managers and specialists.
	www.doc.govt.nz /Conservation/World-Heritage/index.asp (1391 words)

	Unesco - World Heritage Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO, in collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, has organised a conference, in order to reflect on the involvement of local communities in the management and sustainable development of World Heritage properties and to discuss possible lines of action.
		The outstanding universal value which, according to the World Heritage Convention of 1970, justifies the inscription of a property on the World Heritage List does not necessarily coincide with the local values connected to a site by local groups that traditionally inhabit or use a site and its surroundings.
		In light of the emerging tendency to celebrate and preserve the cultural diversity of mankind, UNESCO is increasingly investigating the possibilities of safeguarding local traditions, indigenous knowledge and other aspects of intangible cultural heritage.
	www.unesco.nl /main_6-1.php (232 words)

	The Deptford Lads: World Heritage Page
		UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
		Subsequent reading revealed that we had actually visited five World Heritage Sites on that holiday, all of which had been high-points (Roskilde Cathedral, Sans Souci, Prague, Cologne Cathedral and Aachen Cathedral, plus the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, which was inscribed later, in 2002).
		More information about the World Heritage Convention, the Committee, and the process of considering sites can be found at the WHC website.
	www.highrise.dircon.co.uk /deptlads/heritage (377 words)

	Austria - UNESCO World Heritage sites - Travel-Images.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The World Heritage List was established under terms of The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage adopted in November 1972 at the 17th General Conference of UNESCO.
		The Convention states that a World Heritage Committee "will establish, keep up-to-date and publish" a World Heritage List of cultural and natural properties, submitted by the States Parties and considered to be of outstanding universal value.
		One of the main responsibilities of this Committee is to provide technical co-operation under the World Heritage Fund for the safeguarding of World Heritage properties to States Parties whose resources are insufficient.
	geo.ya.com /travelimages/unesco-austria.html (262 words)

	UN Chronicle \| UNESCO Celebrates World Heritage Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Marking the Convention's 30th anniversary on 16 November, UNESCO could proudly claim it had touched 730 sites around the globe in some way—by placing them on the World Heritage List for their "outstanding universal value"—and ensured their existence, preservation and success as enduring monuments of human endeavour and natural beauty.
		Cultural Heritage is being approached as an instrument of peace and a factor of development, in addition to its social and cultural value.
		UNESCO is trying to create awareness in the public and private sectors, as well as civil society, that a new approach to management of cultural heritage is necessary.
	www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/2003/webArticles/013003_world_heritage.html (707 words)

	World Heritage Tours - Tours in the Middle East, Tours in South America, Tours in Indochina, Tours in Africa, African ...
		In recognition of the fact that the sites and remains of the civilisations of bygone, and not so bygone, days are the heritage of all humankind, UNESCO has developed an elaborate program to ensure the preservation of these sites for ours and generations to come.
		From thousands of sites around the world, UNESCO has chosen approximately 754 sites that have had a far-reaching impact on the world we know today.
		These World Heritage Sites are both tangible proof of the progress that has brought us to where we are today, and monuments to what we have has passed.
	www.worldheritagetours.com (277 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Sites
		The four UNESCO World Heritage Site count amongst the greatest treasures of Saxony-Anhalt: the Old Town of Quedlinburg, the sites associated with Luther in Wittenberg and Eisleben, the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom and the Bauhaus in Dessau.
		The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since November 2000, reflects the englightened mindset of the Dessau court with its unique concentration of historic monuments.
		The Bauhaus, which was founded in Weimar 1919 before continuing in Dessau between 1926 and 1932, occupies a special role in the history of culture, architecture, design, art and the new media of the 20th century.
	www.sachsen-anhalt.de /LPSA/index.php?print=1&no_cache=1&id=20929 (203 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Convention
		Cultural heritage as a source of memory is an important aspect of the preservation of cultural heritage.
		By allocating heritage to UNESCO it is possible to say that national heritage becomes a 'common heritage' where rights and duties of the world-community are specifically defined.
		The role of the List as representing both a national and a cosmopolitan view of cultural heritage is perhaps the most confusing element of it and it is a good example on two forces of the globalisation process where the construction of a 'common' World Heritage reinforces national identities.
	folk.uio.no /atleom/master/4.htm (1330 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Convention
		However, in the context of the Convention not all cultural heritage is viewed as 'common,' and a comparison of all three UNESCO conventions concerning protection of cultural heritage confuses the picture: the conventions have divergent interpretations of heritage.
		The world community has an interest not only in the resources that produce the raw materials for economic development but also in the resources that are a part of its heritage.
		It is noteworthy that in context of the Convention is the concept of World Heritage protected, and not all of the worlds' inheritance is a World Heritage.
	folk.uio.no /atleom/master/2.htm (2505 words)

	The Korea Times : Tano Festival Designated UNESCO World Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Traditional Tano Festival, indigenous to Kangnung, Kangwon Province, was designated by UNESCO Friday as one of the world’s new intangible cultural assets, according to Cultural Heritage Administration.
		The biennial Arirang Prize was established in 2001 by the government in order to contribute to UNESCO efforts to conserve the world’s intangible cultural assets.
		Cultural Heritage Administration and the Kangnung City government will hold various cultural events for celebrating the registration of the festival to UNESCO from 2 p.m.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/200511/kt2005112517083810160.htm (462 words)

	Zegrahm Expeditions - UNESCO & World Heritage
		UNESCO World Heritage Sites are the prized marbles in the traveler's rucksack of collected experiences.
		The concept of universal heritage was born, and, in 1972, an international treaty—the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage—was established "to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity."
		As the final step, the World Heritage Committee (191 countries), in their annual meeting, reviews the recommendations and determines whether or not the site becomes an official part of the World Heritage List.
	www.zeco.com /library/unesco.asp (486 words)

	Cultural Heritage: UNESCO Culture Sector
		Having at one time referred exclusively to the monumental remains of cultures, heritage as a concept has gradually come to include new categories such as the intangible, ethnographic or industrial heritage.
		The concept of heritage in our time accordingly is an open one, reflecting living culture every bit as much as that of the past.
		The events are organized under the patronage of the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO, UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme (IHP), and the Centre for Franco-Indian Cultural Relations (CRCFI), from October 29 to November 15 at the Organization’s Headquarters.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2185&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (938 words)

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		Its textile mills, public buildings and workers' housing are built in a harmonious style of high architectural quality and the urban plan survives intact, giving a vivid impression of the philanthropic paternalism of the Victorian age.
		Meeting at Helsinki UNESCO decided to inscribe all 4 UK sites nominated by the Government in the prestigious list of nearly 600 sites worldwide judged either to represent important landmarks in human history or to be outstanding natural features.
		UNESCO will have to send a team over the next few years to write a report to send back to the Heritage Committee but just being nominated by the Government is a great honour - a bit like being nominated for the Oscars
	members.lycos.co.uk /saltaire/heritage.htm (1372 words)

	South Africa / UNESCO World Heritage Sites in South Africa
		Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations.
		World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located.
		The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
	www.sa-venues.com /unesco_world_heritage_sites.htm (880 words)

	World Heritage Sites of South Africa
		South Africa hosts 4 of the World Heritage Sites of the world and this is not surprising given the spectacular and diverse culture, nature and wildlife that South Africa offers its tourists.
		These criteria are explained in the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention which, besides the text of the Convention, is the main working document on World Heritage.
		The area meets the criteria for inclusion in the World Heritage List of cultural properties in that it represents the combined works of nature and man. It is of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science, archaeology and anthropology.
	www.south-africa-tours.com /south-africa-world-heritage-sites.html (2003 words)

	CZeCOT - The Tourist Server of the Czech Republic - UNESCO Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		UNESCO approved the convention on the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage in the year 1972.
		The idea behind the convention was to select cultural monuments and natural areas of world significance in order to preserve them for future generations.
		In addition to this prestigious list of monuments, there is also the worldwide network of UNESCO biosphere reservations in the framework of the "Humankind and the Biosphere" global system, which consists of interesting ecosystems.
	unesco.czecot.com /?id_jazyk=2 (449 words)

	Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site
		Because of the size of the World Heritage Site and the variety of different land uses to which it is subject, there is a particular need to develop a comprehensive management plan.
		While considerable benefit is derived from farming activity, the contribution of the World Heritage Site to the economy of the region through the development of tourism and related services has become increasingly important as other industries have declined.
		The Setting would serve as the basis for planning policies to protect the World Heritage Site in its landscape and also as the area for proactive support for landscape management schemes which would need to be agreed with landowners and farmers.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /ArchRev/rev95_6/hadrian.htm (1707 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		UNESCO World Heritage sites are among the most beautiful and fascinating on earth.
		The UNESCO World Heritage Sites programme was set up to help preserve the world's cultural and natural heritage.
		Or explore the Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries on the border between Myanmar and Thailand, which contain 77% of the large mammals (especially elephants and tigers), 50% of the large birds and 33% of the land vertebrates to be found in South-East Asia.
	www.worldtravelguide.net /feature/20/index/UNESCO-World-Heritage-Sites.html (1046 words)

	Turismo Valonia — Bruselas (Bélgica) : UNESCO World Heritage
		Our heritage is the legacy of the past we still enjoy and which we will pass on to future generations.
		The world heritage sites belong to all peoples of the world, without taking into account the territory they are located on.
		The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) encourages the identification, protection and preservation of the cultural and natural heritage all over the world that is considered to have an exceptional value to humanity.
	www.opt.be /tourisme/contenu.php?RG=o&CLANGUE=es&ID=143&EMAIL=&clangue2=en (683 words)

	Welcome to Friends of World Heritage: News
		The World Heritage Centre is the coordinator within UNESCO for matters related to World Heritage.
		Currently there are 20 World Heritage sites in the U.S. Many NGOs support World Heritage site conservation and sustainable tourism development, but sometimes it is difficult to determine where to begin your journey of knowledge.
		Whilst fully respecting the national sovereignty, the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention recognize that the protection of our World Heritage is the duty of the international community as a whole.
	www.friendsofworldheritage.org /resources.htm (1000 words)

	RUSSIA'S WORLD HERITAGE SITE
		The decision by UNESCO supports Greenpeace's efforts to protect the largest untouched forest area in Europe from the impact of logging companies, oil exploration and mining interests in the midst of an environmental and economic crisis in Russia.
		The designation of World Heritage status for the virgin forests of Komi is a major victory for Russian and world environmental protection and an extremely prestigious nomination for the Komi Republic, the first natural World Heritage site on the territory of Russia.
		World Bank studies have shown that the Komi region is nearly self-sufficient in food resources and entirely dependent upon what they grow themselves.
	ces.iisc.ernet.in /hpg/envis/doc-russia-wh.html (2616 words)

	UNESCO World Heritage Volcano Sites - John Seach
		According to the World Heritage Convention, "natural heritage" designates outstanding physical, biological, and geological features; habitats of threatened plants or animal species and areas of value on scientific or aesthetic grounds or from the point of view of conservation.
		This is one of the most outstanding volcanic regions in the world, with a high density of active volcanoes, a variety of types, and a wide range of related features.
		A remarkable example of isolated oceanic islands, born of volcanic activity more than 2,000 m under the sea, these islands boast a spectacular topography and are home to numerous endemic species, especially birds.
	www.volcanolive.com /unesco.html (1425 words)

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