World Heritage List: Does It Make Sense?
Bruno S. Frey|Lasse Steiner
The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity’s culture and landscapes. is beneficial where heritage sites are undetected, disregarded by national decision-makers, not commercially exploitable, financial resources, political control technical knowledge for conservation inadequate. Alternatives such as market reliance on list more cultural natural already popular, markets work well, inclusion in does raise destruction potential excessive tourism, times war or terrorists.
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