Reviews: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies

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.).