Towards sustainable management of the World Heritage in Spain: from identification to monitoring of cultural values

Soledad González Arques; Marta García-Casasola; Blanca del Espino Hidalgo

doi:10.14568/cp37915

Authors

Soledad González Arques University of Seville, Department of Architectural History, Composition and Theory, Av. Reina Mercedes, 2, 41012 Seville, España https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4008-4213
Marta García-Casasola University of Seville, Department of Architectural History, Composition and Theory, Av. Reina Mercedes, 2, 41012 Seville, España; Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura y Ciencias de la Construcción, Av. Reina Mercedes, 2, 41012 Seville, España https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5308-5322
Blanca del Espino Hidalgo Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura y Ciencias de la Construcción, Av. Reina Mercedes, 2, 41012 Seville, España; University of Seville, Department of Urban and Land Planning, Av. Reina Mercedes, 2, 41012 Seville, España https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1442-7385

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14568/cp37915

Keywords:

Outstanding Universal Value, Sustainable conservation, Management plan, Heritage impact assessment, Active protection, Conservation monitoring

Abstract

The management of World Heritage properties has reached a sufficient level of maturity accompanied by increasingly demanding monitoring processes focused on preserving their cultural values. This task is now being tackled, from a sustainable point of view, by involving the public. In the case of Spain, 50 properties have been declared since 1984, giving rise to an unequal situation regarding their management. Heterogeneity, the need to complete the declaration dossiers, concerning outstanding universal values and others, and the difficulty of implementing strategic and operational planning, are the origins of this situation. To address the sustainable management of this heritage and the monitoring of its cultural values, a diagnosis will be made, from the declaration to the implementation of the monitoring processes required by UNESCO, ending with a review of the implementation of management plans in Spain, understood as the tools that guarantee an integral vision of the property.

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