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Sustainable Management of World Heritage Sites in Transition

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 18045

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe De Luca

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Full Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Architecture, Florence, University of Florence, Italy
Interests: urban planning; urban sustainability; heritage planning; regional planning
Dr. Ahmadreza Shirvani Dastgerdi

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Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Architecture, Florence, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Interests: landscape planning and climate change; cultural landscapes; conservation policy; sustainable heritage
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Dear Colleagues

The crisis due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic has expanded discussions on cultural transitions and economic recessions. This Special Issue aims to provide reflections on the management of historic cities and world heritage sites in the post-crisis phase, particularly when mass tourists, and consequently their economic benefits, did not exist for a period. As one of the most significant parts of the world economy, the tourism industry has been one of the essential tools in supporting conservation activities and economic development at historic cities and world heritage sites. However, the temporary stagnation of the tourism sector seems to be inevitable for cultural heritage destinations dealing with a crisis, such as the post-COVID-19 era. Such events can disrupt the socio-economic dynamics at tourist destinations and pose a severe threat to the sustainability of world heritage sites.  Previous studies often focused on the methods for managing overtourism at world heritage sites. However, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the fragile condition of cultural heritage sites to economic recessions, necessitating reflections on cultural heritage policies that boost the sustainability of historic cities in the post-crisis era. Potential areas of focus may include, but are not limited to, the sustainability of world heritage sites in the post-COVID-19 era, armed conflict in historic towns, and rehabilitation of cultural heritage sites suffering from natural disasters. This Special Issue welcomes contributions from all over the world that develop conservation science for the sustainable management of heritage sites in the post-crisis phase at various local, regional, or national scales, and at multiple levels of governance, policymaking, or management strategy.

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe De Luca
Dr. Ahmadreza Shirvani Dastgerdi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Cultural transition
  • Economic recessions
  • Post-crisis policy
  • World heritage sites
  • Historic cities
  • Cultural heritage planning
  • Conservation strategy
  • Sustainable management

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Visitor Management in World Heritage Destinations before and after Covid-19, Angkor
by Antonio Alvarez-Sousa and Jose Luis Paniza Prados
Sustainability 2020, 12(23), 9929; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12239929 - 27 Nov 2020
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The purpose of this research was to analyze the visitor-management tactics and strategies in World Heritage destinations. The Temples of Angkor (Cambodia) were selected as case studies. The analysis was carried out in two phases—before and after COVID-19. A qualitative methodology was used. [...] Read more.
The purpose of this research was to analyze the visitor-management tactics and strategies in World Heritage destinations. The Temples of Angkor (Cambodia) were selected as case studies. The analysis was carried out in two phases—before and after COVID-19. A qualitative methodology was used. Participant observation was employed for the pre-COVID-19 strategies, and recommendations of scholars and bodies responsible for tourism were the basis for the strategies proposed for the post-COVID-19 scenario. Grounded theory and the Atlas.ti qualitative analysis software were used. The results showed that the public health goal, together with its related strategies and tactics, should be added to the classic sustainability goals and the hard and soft strategies (physical, regulatory, and educational). It was also noted that new actors came into play—those responsible for public health. In conclusion, this new public health goal and its tactics will condition classic factors such as carrying capacity, and can conflict with goals such as the economic and social goals. The sustainability paradigm is maintained, but with the addition of risk society and the public health goal playing a key role. Full article
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Inner Archipelagos in Sicily. From Culture-Based Development to Creativity-Oriented Evolution
by Maurizio Carta, Daniele Ronsivalle and Barbara Lino
Sustainability 2020, 12(18), 7452; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12187452 - 10 Sep 2020
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When Covid-19 arrived in Europe from the far East, the media and experts in economics and social sciences noticed that it was the expected discontinuity in the socio-economic development process. Really, the current phase has spread since the 1960s, when the application of [...] Read more.
When Covid-19 arrived in Europe from the far East, the media and experts in economics and social sciences noticed that it was the expected discontinuity in the socio-economic development process. Really, the current phase has spread since the 1960s, when the application of econometric worldwide-spread development model was going to produce social inequalities, and consumption of physical, social, and cultural resources. Some places in Italy, far from the erosive and urban context and erosive metropolitan areas, are currently isolated seeds of a new cycle of life, because of the local community identity and the strong link between human, cultural, and natural components are currently working together towards a new development model. Starting from a 20-year research about Local Cultural Systems in Sicily, the research group has defined and tested the cultural dimension of development, and affirmed that the transition to a culture-based growth, as defined by UNESCO, should be the solution for overcoming the erosive Anthropocene era. In western Sicily, the Belice Valley is working on cultural transition thanks to relationships between cultural heritage, identity, and settlement network, that we have designed as a Territorial Archipelago. The research demonstrates that local communities will innovate if they rethink the development model and reshape spatial patterns and economic networks focusing on the creativity-driven vision. Full article
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Strategies for Post-COVID Cities: An Insight to Paris En Commun and Milano 2020
by Carlo Pisano
Sustainability 2020, 12(15), 5883; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12155883 - 22 Jul 2020
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In recent times, many infectious diseases have been spreading at an increasing scale and frequency. There is a common agreement in the literature that our cities should be prepared in the future to react promptly to epidemics, but the way in which this [...] Read more.
In recent times, many infectious diseases have been spreading at an increasing scale and frequency. There is a common agreement in the literature that our cities should be prepared in the future to react promptly to epidemics, but the way in which this preparedness should be shaped is still an open question. This study aims to introduce a series of factors that should be taken into consideration in building a working framework to define and evaluate strategies for post-COVID cities. Through the use of the mutual learning methodology, this contribution draws on the concept of the epidemic prevention area (EPA) proposed by a research team at the School of Architecture, Southeast University (SEU) in China together with the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Resource Management, as an urban responding system to the COVID-19 epidemic, extracting its main factors and comparing them with two European post-COVID urban strategies: The Paris en Commun and Milano 2020. Research findings highlight that three factors—decentralization of facilities, hierarchization of the transport system and public services, and redundancy of public and semipublic functions—appeared to be particularly relevant in post-COVID cities, to promptly face future epidemic events, while improving their quality, equity, and resilience. Full article
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