This book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservationist practices to the risks and alerts that run its maintenance in the face of so many challenges in the contemporary world. The book has encouraged scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to research on the management and risks of Brazil's world heritage. It is a bold initiative that brings together contemporary studies on management, alerts and risks of the Brazilian world heritage and some international examples. It stands out not only for its interdisciplinary approach, but above all for compiling a wide range of approaches that analyze various dimensions of world heritage management.

Unique experience in the management of world heritage allocated to Brazilian territory, this book was written by prominent academics and heritage management professionals and includes national and international casestudies. It is a comprehensive academic book in Brazilian world heritage management literature and can therefore be used as an authoritative reference source as well as a significant teaching tool.

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Rodrigo Christofoletti PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Property from Fundação Getulio Vargas (2010). He is currently a professor of Cultural Heritage in the History course at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), and teaches in the Pos Graduate Program at the same university. He coordinated the Specialization Course in History and Culture in Contemporary Brazil (Ead) at CEAD-UFJF (2017-2019) and the Collections Section of CECOM - UFJF Memory Conservation Center. From 2004 to 2016 he was an educator at the National Monument Ruins Engenho São Jorge dos Erasmos - USP. He is a researcher at LAPA - UFJF Heritage Laboratory and collaborator at CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Center "Culture, Space and Memory" at the University of Letters of Porto (ULP). He is leader of the research group Cnpq - Patrimony and International Relations. He has been a member of COMPPAC - Municipal Council for the Preservation of the Historic Heritage of Juiz de Fora, since 2019. He coordinates the Human Sciences area of PISM (Mixed Selective Admission Program) at UFJF. He has experience in the field of political history and cultural goods with an emphasis on Cultural Heritage, acting mainly on the following themes: heritage - cultural goods - heritage education, heritage of humanity, political history of the Brazilian right and Integralism.
Marcos Olender graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1985), Master in Social History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1992) and doctorate in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Bahia (2007). He is currently an associate professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. He has experience in the areas of History and Architecture and Urbanism, with an emphasis on Regional History of Brazil and on Historical and Cultural Heritage, acting mainly on the following themes: revitalization, conservation and restoration, instruments for the protection of heritage, politics and management in cultural heritage , history of modern and contemporary architecture, railway memory, history of national and international exhibitions of industries and fine arts, German colonization and immigration architecture (mainly German and Italian).

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Rodrigo Christofoletti and Marcos Olender

PRESENTATION: World heritage patinas: a metaphor to be understood

Part 1 - Performance of national preservation organization

Jurema Machado

The Brazilian experience of World Heritage Sites

Marcelo Brito

Conservation actors: challenges and risks of safeguarding world heritage towns

Nivaldo Andrade

Challenges and risks on the conservation of the historic center of Salvador, Bahia

Simone Scifoni World Heritage in Brazil: a reflection and critique

Monica Lima

When sensitive memories sites become heritage: the case of Valongo Wharf in Rio de Janeiro

Raul Lanari and Hugo Rocha

Afro-Brazilian religions and protected urban areas: the cases of Laranjeiras and São Cristóvão, Sergipe

Luciana Rocha Féres and Leonardo Barci Castriota The modern Complex of Pampulha: reflections on the complexities and contradictions for the management of a world cultural landscape

Ana Lúcia Goelzer Meira and Luisa Durán Rocca

Reflections on tourism in Jesuit-Guarani missions

Part 2 - International experiences in preserving the world heritage

Marcos Olender

Some genealogical notes on the notion of world heritage

Maria Leonor Botelho and Lúcia Rosas The experience of managing the city of Porto as a world heritage site: how to teach and how to learn?

Mario Ferrada

Latin American world heritage sites; conservation and management under a values-based approach

Joanes da Silva Rocha

Immaterial heritage and the risk of forgetting: the case of the hidden Christians in Nagasaki

Paulo Henrique Martinez Environmental history and cultural landscape in Israel (2003-2018)

Part 3 - World heritage risks and threats

Rodrigo Christofoletti and Vitória Acerbi

Brazil in the circuit of international cultural relations: devolution and return of ethnographic goods

Antônio Maria Claret de Gouveia, Giovana Martins Brito and Ana Elisa de Oliveira The risk of fire in the semi detached buildings of the historic center of Ouro Preto: world heritage

Denismara Eugênia de Oliveira Nascimento

Plunderers of Devotional Heritage

Kathia Maurtua

From works in favor of tourism to attacks against cultural heritage: a history of corruption and modernity in the case of Cusco

Jeremy Dioses Campaña Modernity, Huacas and depredation of heritage on the Peruvian coast. the specific case of Chan Chan, 1986-2019 world heritage

Hebe Mattos

Memory of slavery as material and intangible heritage: the case of Valongo Wharf and the project Passados Presentes

Part 4 - Legislation and ethnography in the preservation of world heritage sites

Virgynia Corradi Lopes da Silva and Adriana Sanajotti Nakamuta Controlling the circulation of movable assets and operating in a network: perspectives for the inspection of cultural heritage

Caroline dos Reis Lodi Legislat...