Prof. Dr. Marie-Theres Albert
Going Beyond: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No.2, edited by Marie-Theres Albert, Francesco Bandarin, Ana Pereira Roders, Springer, 2017, 368 pp., £109.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-319-57164-5 BOOK REVIEW by Karla Boluk Published in Conservation & Management of Archaeological Sites Volume 20, Issue 5-6, online February 2019. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ycma20/20/5-6?nav=tocList
Marie-Theres Albert (Ed.): Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies. De Gruyter: Berlin, Boston 2015 Review by Prof. Dr. Renate Nestvogel The concepts of sustainable development (s.d.) and sustainability, as formulated at the Rio Conference in 1992, emerged from analysis of the exploitation and destruction of natural (water, air, soil, raw materials) as well as human resources and heritage, which was documented in various reports since the 1970s (Club of Rome, Brundtland-Report etc.).
Prof. Dr. Klaus Hüfner
The editor, since 2010 director and Chair of the doctoral program “International Graduate School: Heritage Studies” at Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg has produced here an anthology with a total of eighteen contributions.
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Marie-Theres Albert, Birgitta Ringbeck, 40 Years World Heritage Convention. Popularizing the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage. De Gruyter 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-042776-9, 214 pages, ISSN 2196-0275 Review by Prof. Dr. Renate Nestvogel In this third volume of the Heritage Studies Series, the authors present the manifold facets of World Heritage since its formation and the adoption of the World Heritage Convention in 1972. First of all, they point out that the current 1031 cultural and natural sites more …
Marie-Theres Albert, Roland Bernecker, Britta Rudolff (Eds): Understanding Heritage. Perspectives in Heritage Studies. De Gruyter: Berlin, Boston 2013. 199 pages. ISBN 978-3-11-030830-3 / e-ISBN 978-3-11-030838-9/ ISSN 2196-0275 Review by Prof. Dr. Renate Nestvogel In 2012, UNESCO celebrated the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention as well as the 20th anniversary of the Memory of the World Programme. Together with the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage adopted in 2003 and the Convention on more …
Marie-Theres Albert, Birgitta Ringbeck: 40 Years World Heritage Convention. Popularizing the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage. De Gruyter 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-042776-9, 214 pages, ISSN 2196-0275 Review by Dr. Roland Bernecker, Secretary General German Commission for UNESCO The UNESCO World Heritage Convention from 1972 is an international treaty out of which a prestigious program has developed for the recognition of cultural and natural sites. For many years experts have been concerned with the question of whether the increasing more …
Marie-Theres Albert, Birgitta Ringbeck: 40 Years World Heritage Convention. Popularizing the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage. De Gruyter 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-042776-9, 214 pages, ISSN 2196-0275 Review by Prof. Dr. Klaus Hüfner The Convention for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention) was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 1972, but only came into force in 1975. The Convention, to date ratified by 191 States, belongs without doubt to the most successful more …