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Mobile map** system for historic built heritage and GIS integration: a challenging case study
To manage the historic built heritage, it is of fundamental importance to fully understand the urban area under study, so that all its...
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Historical-architectural analysis of Cartagena de Indias heritage
In the last four decades, the historical heritage of Cartagena de Indias has been at the center of national and international attention due to its...
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Spatial distribution characteristics and differentiated management strategies of China Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
Climate change and rapid urbanization pose significant challenges to the conservation and management of agricultural heritage systems, including...
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Improvements and methodological innovations in the application of the Historic Landscape Characterisation methodology to industrial heritage landscapes
Industrial heritage landscapes today are phenomena of extraordinary complexity, the study of which has been addressed belatedly by the scientific...
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Geomorphological Heritage of Poland—Diversity, Conservation and Promotion
Geomorphological heritage of Poland includes landforms and landscapes of various origin and age, but also of varying clarity of expression. This...
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Conceptual inspiration from heritage: the design philosophy surrounding the Saudi Arabian Rowshan
Rowshan is a distinctive architectural element and a primary component of the façades of traditional houses in western Saudi Arabia. It is window...
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The World of the Built Environment
A stone wall stands in front of Theopetra cave in Thessaly, Greece. Some nameless masons built it 23,000 years ago, to protect the cave’s inhabitants...
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Kanak Cultural Heritage on Colonised and Damaged Lands
This chapter – co-authored by two Kanak knowledge holders (a clan chief and a singer-songwriter) and two European researchers (from political science...
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Natural Heritage Sites and Space Observations
World heritage is recognized as a cultural relics and natural landscape with prominent significance and universal value by all mankind.
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Emergency Management for the Built Heritage Post-earthquake: Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy, Italy
When an earthquakeEarthquake occurs, after operations to rescue human lives have been completed, it is crucial to implement prompt interventions to...
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Ecological Risk Assessment of World Heritage Sites Using RS and GIS: A Case Study of Huangshan Mountain, China
Ecological risk assessment (ERA) is an indispensable method for systematic monitoring of World Heritage Sites (WHSs) exposed to various anthropogenic...
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Analyzing the heritage of Tehran’s urban façades in the recent century
Urban façades have been one of the most crucial issues in Iranian urban development and the disorder that has been around in this field reflects the...
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The Incorporation of the Cultural Landscape as a Heritage Category in South American Legislation. New Perspectives for the Protection of Pampean Heritage Sites
The heritage category of cultural landscape has been recognized internationally by charters and recommendations adopted by international...
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Unlocking the Social Impact of Built Heritage Projects: Evaluation as Catalyst of Value?
To be sustainable, projects concerning built heritage resources need to take into account multiple dimensions, including the social one. More...
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Acts of Ongoing Repression? Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Landscape Protection in Postcolonial Australia
The colonisation of Australia was achieved through the diminishment of Aboriginal culture and their displacement from Country. Colonial processes...
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The Boundaries of Heritage: The Paradoxes of Ouro Preto
Currently, an increasingly urgent need is to protect the cultural heritage, over many years, missing values and meanings as a result of the rupture...
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Geoheritage and Cultural Heritage of the Central Sahara: Conservation Threats and Opportunities
The landforms and landscapes of the central Sahara are of considerable geoheritage and cultural heritage interest because of the unique geologic and...
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Concentrations, sources, and influential factors of water-soluble ions of atmospheric particles in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, a world heritage site in China
Atmospheric particle pollution is one of the major factors leading to degradation of ancient wall paintings, particularly heritage sites in arid and...
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Albanian Natural and Cultural Heritage
The highly diverse nature of the country, often described as “a great natural museum,” has conditioned many natural phenomena and objects with...
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Civilization Resilience: Luxor Heritage Then and Now. Effect of Covid-19 on Heritage and Touristic Sites Between Egypt and Las Vegas
Luxor, known as Thebes, is a world-famous monument and one of Egypt’s significant tourism hubs. Luxor’s shape and fabric tell a story of more than...