On Heritage Site, Rural landscape & UNESCO

From the reading:


P. Gullino, F. Larcher, Integrity in UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A comparative study for rural landscapes, Journal of Cultural Heritage (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2012.10.005

go to this link 



Outstanding Universal Value (OUV):
UNESCO standard for evaluating cultural heritage site suitability

"Integrity", the concept
- found in 2005
def: "a measure of the wholeness and intactness of the natural and/or cultural heritage and its attributes. Examining the conditions of integrity, therefore requires assessing
the extent to which the property:

• includes all elements necessary to express its outstanding universal value;
• is of adequate size to ensure the complete representation of the
features and processes which convey the property’s significance;
• suffers from adverse effects of development and/or neglect.” 
(UNESCO, Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of theWorld Heritage Convention, 2008 http://whc.unesco.org/archive/opguide08-en.pdf)


World Heritage Site

'Values to Have':

'Values to Maintain':


historical features,
traditional crops and local products, land-use and agricultural practice permanence, and the presence
of architecture related to agricultural activity