Cultural Landscapes: Preservation Challenges in the 21st Century
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage
Convention and the 20th anniversary of the Declaration on
Cultural Landscapes, this conference will bring together
scholars and professionals from around the world to address the
debates over the interrelationship between culture and nature,
the challenges of preservation within historic urban landscapes,
the development of an integrated approach to identifying and
assessing cultural landscapes, and the challenges of developing
conservation strategies that reflect the complexities of world
cultures and sites and respect their multiple stakeholders.
Defined combined works of nature and humankind that express a
long and intimate relationship between peoples and their natural
environment, cultural landscapes embody diverse interactions
between humans and their environment, seek to protect living
traditional cultures, preserve the traces of cultures that have
disappeared, and in the case of hist