Cultural Heritage: Current Threats and Opportunities

Dear Colleagues,

Following the ECHOPOLIS 2018 International Conference (www.echopolis.eu) held in Athens, Greece (26–28 November 2018), a Special Issue welcoming contributions that are dedicated to major research themes related to “Cultural Heritage: Current Threats and Opportunities” is proposed. The following research subjects, discussed also in the framework of some ECHOPOLIS Plenary and Special Sessions, are indicated here as possible topics of interest:

• Natural and tangible/intangible Cultural Heritage as Strategic Territorial Development Resources;
• Linking cultural and natural heritage;
• Climate change, natural and other threats to cultural heritage;
• Sounds and Soundscapes as elements of the culture of places;
• Cultural heritage, archaeological sites, monuments, and sensory landscapes;
• Shaping places with culture and nature;
• Natural and cultural heritage: planning, management, governance, marketing, funding;
• New mapping and surveying technologies for cultural or/and natural heritage Tourism and Heritage, Cultural Tourism.

This Special Issue will also be open to contributions dealing with other subjects related to the major research themes mentioned above.

Dr. Stella Kyvelou
Prof. Nikitas Chiotinis
Guest Editors

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