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Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation Policies
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Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation Policies

A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 22886

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Luca Zan

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Department of Management, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: heritage management; intangible heritage
Dr. Joanne Edney

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Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
Interests: underwater cultural heritage; protected area management; scuba diving; dive tourism; marine citizen science
Prof. Dr. Daniela Angelina Jelinčić

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Institute for Development and International Relations, Vukotinoviceva 2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: cultural tourism; creative industries; experience economy; cultural heritage management; sustainability of culture and tourism; innovations in culture; social entrepreneurship
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit research manuscripts concerning cultural heritage management and preservation policies to this Special Issue.

Cultural heritage represents the richness of global cultural diversity and is strongly linked to local, regional and national identity. It is a valuable resource for cultural, social and economic territorial development. Furthermore, its inherent values (e.g., aesthetic, educational and scientific) are closely connected to its worth per se; thus, society should take care to preserve cultural heritage to enable future generations to enjoy and learn from it. Its intrinsic values, which are usually related to its financial and economic worth, may also impact its sustainability, especially in light of decreasing public budgets for heritage preservation. However, poor management and preservation may be extremely detrimental to heritage durability and sustainability. Heritage management and preservation policies therefore require sustainable approaches and strategies that allow for the acceleration of regional development, production and access to new products, processes and services with an emphasis on preservation.

This Special Issue aims to collect original research articles and reviews on innovative research dedicated to methodologies, applications and case studies on management and preservation policies for culture heritage. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following research areas:

  • Decision making in both setting up phases and current operations;
  • Sustainable heritage management models;
  • Governance structures and institutional settings;
  • Participatory approaches to heritage management;
  • Sustainable preservation policies for cultural heritage;
  • Sustainable heritage tourism and regional development;
  • Innovative museum, industrial heritage, underwater heritage and all other types of heritage management;
  • The role of interpretation centres in ensuring heritage sustainability;
  • Integrated heritage governance and/or management;
  • Innovative solutions for contested/dissonant/difficult heritage management;
  • Importance of heritage management plans;
  • Financial sustainability and budgetary logics in heritage management;
  • Human resource management: the missing link in the heritage management debate;
  • Management of UNESCO sites.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Luca Zan
Dr. Joanne Edney
Prof. Dr. Daniela Angelina Jelinčić
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Heritage is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • cultural heritage
  • sustainable management
  • preservation policies
  • integrated and participatory heritage governance and management
  • heritage management plans

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Article
Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in the World Heritage Site of the Historic Centre of Mexico City
by Krisangella Sofia Murillo Camacho, Kalliopi Fouseki and Hector Altamirano
Heritage 2023, 6(9), 6343-6357; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6090332 - 15 Sep 2023
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On 26 April 2017, Mexico formally adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda to link the national government to local governments, the private sector, civil society and academia. The restoration of heritage residential buildings (recovery programme) and the construction of new residential buildings aim [...] Read more.
On 26 April 2017, Mexico formally adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda to link the national government to local governments, the private sector, civil society and academia. The restoration of heritage residential buildings (recovery programme) and the construction of new residential buildings aim to create a diversified environment for populations at different economic levels. However, the restoration programme faces conservation challenges. Given this context, this paper presents the results of in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted with stakeholders in Mexico’s heritage and energy sectors. The duration of each interview was approximately two hours, with 52,372 total interview words. The paper identifies prevailing opinions regarding prioritising historical values, energy efficiency, historic buildings and users concerning Mexico City’s Historical Centre, a World Heritage Site needing a more appropriate sustainable development plan. Using grounded theory and thematic analysis, the interview data were analysed based on the interrelationship between thermal comfort, energy efficiency and heritage conservation changes over time. The results of this research will strengthen our understanding of the interventions and processes involved in managing and living in this World Heritage Site and its future impacts on buildings. The approach also underscores the importance of how stakeholders prioritise different values in making energy efficiency-promoting decisions and enhances awareness of the decision-making process and actions adopted by heritage building users. Thus, understanding the dynamic interrelationship between values, users and energy could improve the sustainable management of heritage sites and future development. Full article
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What Actually Is a Heritage Conservation Area? A Management Critique Based on a Systematic Review of New South Wales (Australia) Planning Documents
by Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Heritage 2023, 6(7), 5270-5304; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6070279 - 13 Jul 2023
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While the community of Australian planning professionals is familiar with the identification, interpretation and application of heritage conservation areas, this is not a concept that is familiar to the general public. Yet, none of the official publications issued by the New South Wales [...] Read more.
While the community of Australian planning professionals is familiar with the identification, interpretation and application of heritage conservation areas, this is not a concept that is familiar to the general public. Yet, none of the official publications issued by the New South Wales state heritage authorities provide a definition of the purpose of heritage conservation areas that goes beyond the declaring them to be a spatially bounded area containing heritage items. It is left to the local planning authorities to provide their own interpretations and definitions. This paper provides a systematic review of the definitions contained in NSW local heritage studies and planning documents. It presents the first ever comprehensive definition of the purpose of heritage conservation areas as well as of the nature and characteristics of an area’s constituent, contributory or detracting components. Based on this, the paper then explores the role of heritage conservation areas as part of the public heritage domain focussing on the importance of isovists and commensurate curtilages when discussing permissible alterations and new developments. Full article
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Communication
Cause-Based Participative Relationships in Heritage Management
by Željka Miklošević
Heritage 2023, 6(2), 1824-1838; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6020097 - 9 Feb 2023
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A shift from activities under the exclusive responsibility of institutions and experts to those organized and carried out by a growing number of civil society organizations and heritage communities has been seen as a means of democratizing heritage practice. This paper explores an [...] Read more.
A shift from activities under the exclusive responsibility of institutions and experts to those organized and carried out by a growing number of civil society organizations and heritage communities has been seen as a means of democratizing heritage practice. This paper explores an NGO-run project of the Trešnjevka Neighborhood Museum in Zagreb, Croatia in order to expound characteristics of its participative management model, which includes other NGOs, representatives of a museum institution, and neighborhood residents. The museum’s activities published on the official website and social media platforms were thematically analyzed according to layers of cultural participation. The results show a formation of a community of interests within a place-based community whose purpose is to represent heritage values alternative to those of the mainstream institutions. The TNM can therefore be described as a territorialized cause-based project whose management is predicated on value-based participation of different stockholders, while its heritage governance approach resembles both corporatist and service-led approaches. Full article
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The Usefulness of the Johari Window for the Cultural Heritage Planning Process
by Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Heritage 2023, 6(1), 724-741; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6010039 - 16 Jan 2023
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The standard heritage planning process follows the trajectory of identification, nomination, evaluation, listing and protection. The epistemology of the nominations and valuations is only rarely, if ever, examined. The Johari window was developed by the psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham as a [...] Read more.
The standard heritage planning process follows the trajectory of identification, nomination, evaluation, listing and protection. The epistemology of the nominations and valuations is only rarely, if ever, examined. The Johari window was developed by the psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham as a tool to examine group dynamics, in particular an individual’s position in, and their relationship and interactions with others in a group. This paper examines the usefulness of the Johari window for the Cultural Heritage Planning Process. Based on the interrelationship of what oneself and others know about each other and are prepared to divulge, the Johari window allows to conceptualize overlapping levels of knowledge and ownership within five newly defined epistemological domains. It also serves as an analytical tool to systematically query the heritage universe of a community and thereby examine the composition and comprehensiveness of heritage registers as well as nominations that have been put forward. Full article
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Conceptualizing a Methodology for Cultural Heritage Futures: Using Futurist Hindsight to Make ‘Known Unknowns’ Knowable
by Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Heritage 2023, 6(1), 548-566; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6010029 - 9 Jan 2023
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In a broad conceptual framing, cultural heritage is the result of humankind’s interactions with their environment and one another, both in its tangible and intangible expressions. Cultural heritage management is by nature a retrospective discipline, as the assessment and evaluation of cultural significance [...] Read more.
In a broad conceptual framing, cultural heritage is the result of humankind’s interactions with their environment and one another, both in its tangible and intangible expressions. Cultural heritage management is by nature a retrospective discipline, as the assessment and evaluation of cultural significance of heritage assets requires the passage of time. Practitioners often struggle with the evaluation and management of very modern and contemporary heritage items. There is a need to examine whether current approaches and practices are fit for purpose. Current cultural heritage theory abounds with the concept of heritage stewardship with the embedded futurist stance that we should hand on our heritage in good shape to the next generation, yet all approaches are retrospective and rooted in the values of the present. This paper examines to what extent stewardship, as well as two other futurist concepts, the precautionary principle and strategic foresight, are suitable tools for heritage management. Based on that review, this paper then conceptualizes and proposes an assessment model that positions the valuer into a strategic foresight-derived, modelled future ‘reality’ at a 15 to 30-year horizon, which then allows the valuer to apply standard heritage hindsight assessment methodology to contemporary heritage items. Full article
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Partnerships in Heritage Governance and Management: Review Study of Public–Civil, Public–Private and Public–Private–Community Partnerships
by Ana Žuvela, Marta Šveb Dragija and Daniela Angelina Jelinčić
Heritage 2023, 6(10), 6862-6880; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6100358 - 20 Oct 2023
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Cultural heritage governance and management has been shifting from the sole authority of the state and public bodies towards approaches that list multi-actor partnerships in several combinations involving public actors, civil society, private actors and community. This paper examines the public–civil, public–private and [...] Read more.
Cultural heritage governance and management has been shifting from the sole authority of the state and public bodies towards approaches that list multi-actor partnerships in several combinations involving public actors, civil society, private actors and community. This paper examines the public–civil, public–private and public–private–community partnerships through expounding rationales, conceptual backgrounds and theoretical framings for each partnership, followed by a systemic review and analysis of the academic literature sourced through the PRISMA protocol. The analysis objective was to assess the main advantages and disadvantages of each of the partnerships in governing and managing cultural heritage, noting the levels of representation of each governance and management approach. The results have shown that the public–civil and public–private–community partnerships have similar advantages and disadvantages, with the public–civil partnership being the least represented approach in the literature, while the public–private partnership has the highest level of representation with advantages and disadvantages that are inclined towards more pragmatic aims than those of the other two examined approaches. The so-called ‘new governance models’ of heritage were also detected in the analysis; however, they represent only a variant of the already analysed models. Full article
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