Essays about: "World Heritage List"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words World Heritage List.

1. 1. World Heritage in the Making : An ethnography of the cultural heritage conservation practices in İzmir, Türkiye

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Ece Karakaş; [2023]
   Keywords : Cultural heritage; UNESCO; World Heritage List; heritage conservation; heritage anthropology; multiculturalism; İzmir Studies; Türkiye;

   Abstract : This thesis is an ethnographic research of the cultural heritage conservation practices in İzmir, focusing particularly on the heritage site Historical Port City of İzmir’s conservation on individual, local, and global levels from an anthropological point of view. With its ongoing inscription process to UNESCO’s World Heritage List, the study aims, first, to understand the motivation behind this inscription, the current conservation practices in the city that are undergone by individual and local actors, and to analyze the impact and connection between the individual, local and global efforts to protect İzmir’s multicultural and multilayered heritage. READ MORE

3. 2. Coastal erosion in the region of Thu Bon River mouth, Vietnam

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

   Author : Eric Asplund; Hanna Malmström; [2018]
   Keywords : Coastal erosion; Cua Dai Beach; longshore sediment transport; EBED; Cascade; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Coastal erosion has increased worldwide during the last decades, mostly due to human activities. Vietnam is not spared, where many places within the country suffer from beach erosion. This report focuses on the region around Thu Bon river mouth in the central part of Vietnam. READ MORE

4. 3. Zanzibar night light : a lighting plan for UNESCO World Heritage Zanzibar Stone Town

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Freija Carlstén; [2018]
   Keywords : light design; landscape architecture; planning for sustainability in developing countries; light design in the public space;

   Abstract : Where? Zanzibar is considered to be the centre of Swahili culture, found all along the east coast of Africa. The main city, Stone Town, has for over a millennium constituted an important trading port, merging east African Bantu with Arab culture, adding elements from Persia, India and Europe (NE, 2017). READ MORE

5. 4. Sustainability of Badaling Great Wall heritage site in Beijing, China: from a tourist perspective

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

   Author : Ruying Tang; [2017]
   Keywords : heritage tourism; sustainability; tourist perspective; challenge; Badaling Great Wall site;

   Abstract : Heritage tourism and the concept of sustainability have some certain intrinsic associations between each other. They both possess the characteristics of inheritance and continuance. READ MORE

6. 5. Taxonomisk indelning och bevarande av späckhuggaren

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

   Author : Isa Persson; [2017]
   Keywords : späckhuggare; orcinus orca; ekotyper; artindelning; bevarandebiologi; taxonomi;

   Abstract : Späckhuggaren är världens största delfin och en av havens toppredator. Trots att späckhuggaren uppvisar specialiseringar med avseende på social sammansättning, val av bytesdjur och ibland har morfologiska olikheter är den idag betraktad som en monotypisk art. READ MORE