A World Heritage to Be Shared Without Prejudice: New Linkages and Strategies in the Management of Cultural Landscapes By Selena Bagnara Milan

https://www.academia.edu/26842707/A_World_Heritage_to_Be_Shared_Without_Prejudice_New_Linkages_and_Strategies_in_the_Management_of_Cultural_Landscapes?email_work_card=title In 1992, the World Heritage Committee adopted landscape categories, consequently cultural landscapes were for the first time inscribed on the World Heritage List as " combined works of nature and of man ". This provided the impulse for a new way of thinking about how humans interact with the environment, and established a strong link between culture, nature, and economic development. The choice was certainly induced by the inclusion of sustainability in heritage conservation and, furthermore, from the fact that in the same year, as one of the resulting documents of the United Nations Conference known as Earth Summit, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development introduced the concept of " sustainable development'.