Landscapes for the World

Conserving a Global Heritage

Peter Fowler

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Price:	£20.00
Published:	1 September 2004
ISBN:	0-9545575-9-X
Details:	240 pp; illus: 15 colour; 66 b/w

Synopsis

The best of the world's cultural landscapes - the results of humanity's interaction with the environment over millennia - are a legacy of enormous importance. Since 1992 the international community has begun to protect these special places, through UNESCO's World Heritage Programme. This book asks why these places matter to all of us. It also takes us on a tour of the landscapes so far inscribed on the World Heritage List.

The book explores some extraordinary places, which anyone interested in landscape would wish to visit: places such as the Tongariro volcanic landscape in New Zealand; the Portuguese port wine region of Alto Douro; and the rice-growing terraces of the Cordilleras in the Philippines. The author, who has been actively involved in the inscription process, asks how we can recognise a World Heritage landscape, and discusses the politics of designation and conservation. Britain has many World Heritage sites - Avebury and Stonehenge for instance - but only two World Heritage landscapes: Blaenavon and Kew Gardens. The book helps place Britain's landscape heritage in its global context.

Reviews

'An outstanding book.its value extends well beyond its study of cultural landscapes per se, and anyone seeking the background to the World Heritage phenomenon will find this an excellent introduction.' Current World Archaeology