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This unit provides an overview of World Heritage, its politial and cultural origins and the role of UNESCO and other agencies in identifying and listing sites. It identifies and discusses with exemplification the major conventions and protocols affecting World Heritage. It shows how World Heritage explanded from cultural to natural and other sites, as well as embracing landscapes, and intangible and industrial heritages. It provides case studies of New Lanark as industrial heritage, Bath and Edinburgh as World Heritage Cities, and the Tarragone archaeological and historical ensemble as a driver of economic change in the development of cultural tourism. It also contains an audio case study exploring the Lake District World Heritage bid.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Series editors' foreword -- PART I Historical, theoretical and institutional frameworks -- 1 Policy-making at the World Heritage-sustainable development interface: introductory remarks -- 2 A view from the inside: an account of the process leading to the adoption of the policy for the integration of a sustainable development perspective within the World Heritage Convention -- 3 Historical, theoretical and international considerations on culture, heritage and (sustainable) development -- PART II Policy dimensions and overarching principles -- 4 Inclusive economic development in the urban heritage context -- 5 Inclusive social development and World Heritage in urban areas -- 6 World Heritage and gender equality -- 7 The World Heritage and Sustainable Development Policy - a turning point for indigenous peoples? -- 8 Human rights, wrongs and sustainable development in World Heritage -- 9 Heritage, Sustainable Development and the achievement of peace and security in our world: ambitions and constraints -- PART III Advisory Bodies' perspectives -- 10 The role of World Heritage in achieving environmental sustainability: an IUCN perspective -- 11 'No past, no future?' An ICOMOS perspective on cultural heritage and the sustainability agenda -- 12 From 'Sustaining heritage' to 'Heritage sustaining broader societal wellbeing and benefits': an ICCROM perspective -- PART IV World Heritage site case studies -- 13 Implementing the World Heritage Sustainable Development Policy in Egypt: an opportunity for collective engagement in heritage conservation -- 14 Applying a sustainable development approach to the World Heritage 'Town of Bamberg' site: challenges met, opportunities seized