CDNS 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Old Quebec, Fossil Collecting, Joggins
3 Apr 2016
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A place where natural and cultural heritage come together. One of key ideas: shows it is possible to come up with criteria for why it is important to the enire planet and all of history quesion of universal value. Sites nominated by country, that have gone through process of assessment. Most countries have a tentaive list as well: place to park potenial sites before oicially nominaing them. 10 criteria to describe selecion process of whs (1) to represent a masterpiece of human creaive genius (2) to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of ime or within a cultural area of the world. Bursa, turkey: designated city birth of otoman empire. One of irst engineering works on list. World heritage status does not necessarily mean protecion. Currently experiencing lots of cuts to parks canada staf, funding, etc. We are losing the people who manage the heritage sites due to lack of funds.
