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Culture as an Enabler for Sustainable Development: Challenges for the World Heritage Convention in Adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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The UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, approved in 2015, present new challenges for the World Heritage Convention. This paper extends the debate beyond the single target of Goal 11 ‘to strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage’ to encompass other goals in a more comprehensive manner and to identify four key directives covering: (1) diversity and equity; (2) poverty, peace and non-violence; (3) employment and cultural tourism; and (4) managing heritage. These directives are connected to the convention through the Operational Guidelines linking culture and nature and engaging the five C’s of credibility, conservation, capacity building, communication and communities. Goal 11 is directed to cities and human settlements necessitating a focus on urban heritage to ensure inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and the development of new attributes and indicators compatible with the UN Habitat New Urban Agenda.

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    For wider reading, see Hansen (2000).

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    Quoting Weber (1904).

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  1. UNESCO Chair in Urban Design and Conservation Studies, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

    Michael Turner

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  1. Chair Intercultural Studies/UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies, Institut Heritage Studies (IHS), Internationale Akademie Berlin für innovative Pädagogik, Psychologie und Ökonomie gGmbH (INA), Berlin, Germany

    Marie-Theres Albert

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  3. Department of the Built Environment, Editor Journal Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development TU/e, Eindhoven, NL, The Netherlands

    Ana Pereira Roders

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Turner, M. (2017). Culture as an Enabler for Sustainable Development: Challenges for the World Heritage Convention in Adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In: Albert, MT., Bandarin, F., Pereira Roders, A. (eds) Going Beyond. Heritage Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57165-2_2

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