This volume looks at sustainable protection and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage, particularly in view of the current challenges of the 21st century. For more than 40 years the World Heritage Convention has regulated the protection of the cultural and natural heritage of humankind, particularly in that heritage shall be protected if it is threatened by modern development.

The international community has also adopted sustainability and sustainable development, as objectives to facilitate the protection of cultural and natural heritage. Sustainable heritage protection and use must therefore be preserved in the face of the global challenges it faces and must be perceived in terms of societal, political and corresponding economic paradigms.

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Prof. Dr., Marie-Theres Albert, Professor Emerita and Former Chairholder Chair Intercultural Studies UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies, studied and completed her doctorate and habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin in educational science, sociology and educational economics. From 1994 to 2015 she led the Chair Intercultural Studies at BTU Cottbus and has been the chair holder of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies since October 2003. She is the co-founder and former director (1999-2010) of the masters programme World Heritage Studies and founder and director (since 2010) of the Ph.D. programme International Graduate School: Heritage Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. In this context, she has, since 2010, positioned Heritage Studies paradigmatically in the interest of human development and has developed it progressively into its own discipline with a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach. She initiated the series Heritage Studies to support the process of scientific development discursively. Prof. Dr. Albert is co-editor and also a member of the editorial advisory board for this publication.

Francesco **Bandarin*, is the UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture. He is Professor of Urban Planning and Conservation at the University IUAV of Venice (currently on leave). From 2000 to 2011 he was Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Secretary of the World Heritage Convention. He is President of the Italian Association of the Historic Cities (ANCSA), member of the Visiting Committee of the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles and member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. His recent publications include: The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century, 2012 and Reconnecting the City. The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban Heritage*, 2015, both co-authored with Ron van Oers and published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Dr., Ana **Pereira Roders**, is Associate Professor in Heritage and Sustainability at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. She has wide range of work experience abroad and interdisciplinary cooperation. Her research and scholarship addresses historic urban landscapes and their resource efficiency, spanning the fields of architecture, urban planning, law, environmental management and computer sciences. She is particularly interested in urbanization processes to define the use and conservation of urban resources, in relation to heritage-designations. Ana Pereira Roders is the founding co-editor of the Journal Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Emerald. She presented in 2015 at TEDxHamburg How cities become resource efficient. Dr. Pereira Roders is co-editor and also a member of the editorial advisory board for this publication.

Inhalt

Introduction and Introductory Reflections.- Part I Beyond the Current New Political Commitments.- Culture as an Enabler for Sustainable Development - Challenges for the World Heritage Convention in Adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.- The Potential of Culture for Sustainable Development in Heritage Studies.- Natural World Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals.- Part II Beyond Existing Approaches - New and Innovative Theoretical Perceptions.- The Sustainability of Digital Documentary Heritage.- Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Culture - Diverging Concepts and Practices in European Heritage Work.- Culture, Development and Sustainability: The Cultural Impact of Development and Culture's Role in Sustainability.- From Obstacle to Resource: How Built Cultural Heritage can Contribute to Resilient Cities.- Part III Shifts in the Understanding of Heritage and Sustainability.- Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development in Sacred Places: Towards a New Approach.- Beyond Conventional Limits: Intangible Heritage Values and Sustainability Through Sport.- Contextual Sustainability in Heritage Practice: Urbanization, Neighbourliness, and Community Dialogue in Akçalar, Turkey.- Part IV Best Practises and Narratives.- Shaken Cityscapes: Tangible and Intangible Urban Heritage in Kathmandu, Nepal and Yogyakarta, Indonesia.- Aspects of Social Imperative: The Sustainable Historic Environment in the Developing World.- The Dilemma of Zambia's Barotse Plains Cultural Landscape Nomination: Implications for Sustainable Development.- Feeling Responsible for the Good Life on Earth: The Construction of Social Spaces and Sustainability in the Andes.- Part V Beyond the Mainstream.- Sustainable Power: Decolonising Sustainability Through Anishinaabe Birchbark Canoe Building.- Cant of Reconquest and the Struggle for Restoring Sustainability of the Southern Paiutes.- The Past and Future of Indigenous Peoples' Heritage Transforming the Legacies of Non-Sustainability of Protected Areas.- Hue at an Existential Crossroads: Heritage Protection and Sustainability in an Asian Developing Country Context.- Part VI Aspects of Implementation.- Malaga vs Picasso. Re-branding a City Through Non-Material Heritage.- Geoethics and Sustainability Education Through an Open Source CIGIS Application: the Memory of Places Project in Calabria, Southern Italy, as a Case Study.- Integration of Cultural Heritage into Disaster Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunity for Increased Disaster Resilience.- Facilitating the Process Towards Social Sustainability: A Culture-Based Method for Mapping Historic Public Places, Applied to the Example of Tabriz Bazaar, Iran.- Heritage Impact Assessments as an Advanced Tool for a Sustainable Management of Cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites - From Theory to Practice.- Annexes: Documents and Materials concerning Heritage and sustainable Development.