Bam Citadel is a unique complex with some mediocre buildings in it. Construction started in the Achaemenid period (550–330 BC) and is still being completed and repaired up to the 21st century. Although the Bam region is located in south-western Iran in an active seismic zone, the City of Bam had not reported any major historical earthquake before 26th Dec. 2003. The massive earthquake that day killed or injured more than 37,000 people and most of the city collapsed. Bam Citadel became a unique adobe complex for the World Heritage community after this disaster. According to the surveys, the earthquake caused damage to about 23% of the ancient monuments close to and inside the Citadel. Most of the ruins were the parts that already added to the main body of work or were repaired during the last intervention of 1993. For this reason the technical method, used for the enhancing of the adobe building, is highlighted as the main task. There are four items which are very important for any seismic upgrading in heritage sites: seismology of the area, quality of the construction, function of the building and cultural values. A wide variety of intervention strategies and techniques have been considered for the repair and the seismic retrofitting of the adobe buildings in the Citadel. With respect to that point, the possible relationship between the cultural values and seismic upgrading are always polar opposites. Obviously the buildings in Bam Citadel have many problems, for example the geometry data are not available, there are large variability layers, construction sequence is unknown, existing damage in the structures is very serious, regulation and codes are non-applicable and so on. In fact in this research I am trying to adjust the stability and safety measures with values of the cultural heritage property as much as possible; on the other hand I am trying to optimize the strengthening methods to an acceptable amount of side affect on values. This PhD thesis focuses on the strategies and the techniques that have been applied to preserve the historical monuments and to evaluate the traditional and modern engineering methods that are used in conservation projects in Bam Citadel.

Créé en 1972 par l’adoption de la Convention concernant la protection du patrimoine mondial, culturel et naturel, le patrimoine mondial a connu en 40 ans une importance croissante. Aujourd’hui, il est devenu l’élément incontournable et prestigieux d’une culture qui s’internationalise au rythme des nouvelles technologies, des flux mondiaux et du numérique. Mais il semble également représenter un ancrage plus marqué à la fois dans la matérialité des sites, toujours plus nombreux, et dans leur unicité. Parmi ces sites, les centres historiques connaissent des situations où l’inscription ajoute un niveau de complexité supplémentaire aux tensions existantes. Ainsi, la reconnaissance internationale et la hausse du tourisme semblent transformer physiquement l’environnement urbain, mais aussi ses usages et sa population. Le plus souvent, la réflexion à propos de ces sites s’intéresse donc à leur aménagement et leur gestion, où les habitants sont un élément parmi d’autres à ordonner, pour préserver le site et profiter des retombées économiques de son exploitation touristique.Cette recherche tente au contraire d’examiner comment ces sites se transforment et comment ils deviennent du patrimoine mondial. En outre, elle propose que le processus de patrimonialisation ne soit pas seulement le fait des autorités, mais qu’il repose aussi sur les habitants qui continuent de donner un sens à ces espaces urbains. En effet, le patrimoine est entendu ici comme une construction sociale résultant de la production de représentations par les groupes sociaux qui le revendiquent. La compréhension de ce processus requiert donc du chercheur qu’il mette en évidence les différentes représentations patrimoniales.Le site choisi pour cette étude, le centre historique d’Arequipa au Pérou, est situé dans une région où la conception du patrimoine urbain est plus sociale et plus inclusive des habitants, avec des enjeux exacerbés par des contrastes forts entre richesse et pauvreté, entre centres et périphéries, entre cultures urbaines et rurales.L’étude s’inscrit dans une perspective phénoménologique et propose une herméneutique de la patrimonialisation, c’est-à-dire une interprétation des représentations patrimoniales à partir de leur contexte de production, permettant de restituer les différents processus de patrimonialisation, et ainsi de comprendre l’évolution des valeurs patrimoniales et des transformations qui y sont liées. Pour ce faire une méthode historico-interprétative d’analyse contextualisée des données recueillies dans les documents, par l’observation et par des entretiens, est utilisée. Cette analyse souhaite ainsi contribuer au développement des études patrimoniales en proposant une approche herméneutique qui puisse servir à d’autres travaux.Cette recherche démontre que la patrimonialisation du site du patrimoine mondial du centre historique d’Arequipa est un processus hybride, à la fois physique et symbolique, institutionnel et social, global et local. Elle met en évidence la construction de représentations patrimoniales liées à l’inscription, mais aussi la reconstruction a posteriori d’une continuité historique entre les représentations issues de différents processus, ou cycles, de patrimonialisation. Elle montre enfin que les interventions sur l’environnement bâti sont l’expression des valeurs patrimoniales qui lui sont attribuées plutôt que la recherche d’un état de conservation.Ce travail permet aussi de dégager des effets plus liés à la reconnaissance en tant que patrimoine mondial, tels que des effets d’amplification et d’essentialisation du patrimoine. On observe également une possible prise en compte, dans les interventions, des attentes supposées des touristes. Cette mise en abyme des représentations conférerait au patrimoine mondial un caractère « méta-patrimonial ». Enfin, d’autres conséquences de l’inscription semblent exister, bien qu’elles n’aient pas été confirmées par cette étude, notamment en termes économiques et fonciers / Created in 1972 by the adoption of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the idea of World Heritage has experienced 40 years of growing importance. Today, it has become the essential and prestigious element of a culture that becomes global by following new technologies, global flows and the digital era. But it also seems to be more firmly anchored in both the materiality of the sites on an ever growing World Heritage List and their uniqueness.Among these sites, historic centres experience situations where the inscription on the World Heritage List adds another level of complexity to existing tensions. International recognition and increased tourism seem to physically transform the urban environment, but also its uses and its population. In most cases/often studies about historic centres focus on planning and management, with people being one factor among many others, to preserve the site and benefit from tourism development.This research aims instead at examining how these sites are changing and how they become World Heritage. In addition, it proposes that the heritagization process is not only managed by the authorities, but it also relies on the inhabitants who continue to give meaning to these urban areas. In this work, heritage is understood as social construction that results from the production of representations by social groups claiming it. Understanding this process therefore requires the researcher to bring out the various heritage representations.The site chosen for this study, the Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa in Peru, is located in a region where the concept of urban heritage is more social and inclusive of people, with issues aggravated by strong contrasts between wealth and poverty, centres and peripheries, urban and rural cultures.This study adopted a phenomenological perspective and proposes a hermeneutic of heritage, that is to say, an interpretation of heritage representations from their context of production to reconstruct the different heritage processes and to understand the evolution of heritage values and physical changes. To do so, the researcher employed a historical-interpretative method of contextualized analysis of data collected through document review, observation and interviews. This study seeks to contribute to the development of heritage studies proposing a hermeneutic approach that could be used in other research.This research shows that the heritagization process of the Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa is a hybrid process, both physical and symbolic, institutional and social, global and local. It highlights the making of heritage representations related to the inscription on the World Heritage List, but also an a posteriori reconstruction of historical continuity among representations produced by different processes, or cycles, of heritagization. Finally, it shows that most interventions on the built environment are a result of assigned values rather than a search for a state of conservation.This work also suggests the existence of effects related to the recognition as World Heritage, such as amplification and essentialisation of heritage. There is also a presumed consideration of the supposed expectations of tourists to intervene on the built environment. This mise en abyme of representations gives World Heritage a "meta-heritage" character. Finally, other consequences of the inscription seem to exist, especially in terms of economic impact and land value. These have however not been confirmed through this study

In this thesis I examine three cities that have been nominated as world heritage sites by UNESCO, and how these cities are understood and mediated by visitors. One of the research questions was also to see how these places has been affected by the nomination. I have visited Visby, Dubrovnik and Toruń to do this research. I wanted to find out why so many people choose to visit these places and how much the world heritage nomination was part of the decision to visit. This is done by examining how these cities are mediated by travel literature, tourist information in the form of brochures and other information, as well as interviews. These interviews were conducted both with tourists at these sites, but also with people that work with tourism or cultural heritage in some form. The method used besides interviews has been thick description as it is formulated by Clifford Geertz to describe and make sense of these places and to see how you would experience these places as a tourist. The researchers that has figured as a theoretical background include John Urry and Andrew Walsh. Urry describes how the tourist uses different gazes to see the world in different ways, and Walsh describes how a place that seems to be irreplaceable might in fact not be so irreplaceable, which applies on the examined places in this thesis. Josefina Syssner and Karim van Knippenberg together with Linde Egberts lays a groundwork for the understanding of different sorts of tourists, and what tools can be used is place marketing of these cities. In agreement with previous research I conclude that the primary attraction of these sites for the tourists is not their status as world heritage sites, and the reason that these sites are troubled with mass tourism lies elsewhere. The place itself is replaceable for the majority of the tourists, but not for the material heritage. A better dialogue is needed between the tourism and heritage sector, as well as local residents and politicians, to be able to counteract the negative effects of mass tourism, that is shown to wear on the material culture. The mediation needs to include a more widespread picture of the complex issues that concerns these heritage sites. In todays globalized and mobile world, the idea of world heritage sites becomes problematic, as this work has shown. This thesis is a two years master’s thesis in Museum and cultural heritage.

South Africa is well known for its many, important fossil bearing deposits of Plio-Pleistocene age. Many of these sites contain abundant remains of extinct and extant animals including hominins. Non-herpetological fauna have been used to reconstruct important information about past environments and for chronological data. This study tried a different method; using herpefauna to establish past environments of Cooper’s Cave. Herpetological fauna potentially have numerous advantages in their use for such questions, including typically limited ranging behaviors, and specific temperature requirements. Despite these advantages only a few studies have even mentioned the presence of squamate fauna in the fossil assemblages of these sites. This study has demonstrated that herpefauna exists, in reasonable levels of abundance and with adequate preservation within the fossil record of the dolomitic region now known as the Cradle of Humankind. It has also demonstrated for the first time the presence of a relative abundance of herpefauna at numbers far greater than any previous study has recognized. The present study was however, handicapped in not being able to fully utilize the material at hand to interpret past environments, owing to the lack of comparative material needed to move beyond the family or generic level in most cases with any degree of confidence. However, Agamids and Pseudocordylids were described to generic level. However, the many shortcomings that this work highlighted should not be seen as reason not to pursue the study of herpefauna, but to improve present comparative collections and collecting methods around the fossils themselves.

Construit dans le but de relier la Garonne à la mer Méditerranée à partir de 1666, et inscrit sur la liste du Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO en 1996, le canal du Midi connaît aujourd'hui une nouvelle étape dans l'histoire de son évolution paysagère. En 2006, le chancre coloré, maladie du platane connue pour être incurable, est découvert. À terme, les 42 000 arbres de cette espèce ombrageant le canal, de Toulouse à l'étang de Thau, seraient menacés de disparition, leur abattage constituant pour le moment l'unique solution pour tenter d'enrayer l'infection. Alors qu'il est utilisé aujourd'hui presque exclusivement par le tourisme, on peut se demander quelles seront les conséquences de la disparition de la voûte verte formée par les platanes, alors qu'elle constitue une caractéristique fortement appréciée pour des raisons esthétiques et de confort. La disparition des platanes bordant le canal du Midi a mis en exergue de multiples dysfonctionnements liés à l'implication d'une pluralité d'acteurs aux objectifs parfois divergents et n'ayant jamais véritablement réussi à se fédérer autour d'une gouvernance globale. Cette thèse propose donc de questionner les enjeux liés à ce bouleversement et son influence sur le positionnement des acteurs des territoires traversés par l'ouvrage. J'envisage le chancre coloré comme un élément perturbateur qui laisse à lire des réalités différentes en fonction des échelles du territoire concerné par l'avenir du site canal du Midi, certains territoires révélant leur vulnérabilité mais d'autres pouvant démontrer leur capacité de résilience. Il peut également être un révélateur d'autres dynamiques liées à l'évolution de la gestion des territoires. / Engineered from 1966 onwards in order to connect Garonne River to Mediterranean Sea, registered on UNESCO'S World Heritage List since May 1996, the Canal du Midi is now facing a new step of his landscape's evolution. In 2006, canker disease, which affects plane trees with no hope of recovery, is discovered. Sooner or later, the 42,000 plane trees which shadow the waterway, from Toulouse to the Thau Lagoon, will disappear, their removal being at present the only option for containing the spread of the disease. Nowadays, the Canal du Midi is used mostly for tourism purposes, so we can wonder what will be the consequences of the green canopy's disappearance, this one being highly appreciated for aesthetic and convenience reasons. The destruction of the plane trees has highlighted various failures related to the implication of multiple actors whose objectives are sometimes diverging, and who have never succeeded to agree on a common and global governance. The aim of this thesis is therefore to review the issues related to this upheaval and its consequences on local stakeholders positioning. Canker disease is thus considered as a disruptive factor which point out different field realities according to the scale of the territory involved in the Canal du Midi's future. Some of these territories show their vulnerability, while others exhibit resilience and capacity to adapt to this new environmental reality. It may also reveal other dynamics linked with the evolution of territorial management.

Malgré l’augmentation de l’intérêt pour les différents aspects liés au patrimoine, peu d’importance est encore accordée en Roumanie, comme en Europe de l’Est en général. Cette recherche consiste en un inventaire de géosites, appliqué aux spectaculaires gorges du Danube (la région des Portes de Fer), qui se caractérisent par un cadre géologique varié et un environnement naturel grandiose. Ensuite nous avons évalué tous les géosites de notre région et certains ont été intégrés dans de projets de valorisation. Après la première partie de la thèse ou les principaux concepts ont été définis et le territoire d’étude décrit en détaille, la deuxième et la troisième partie de notre recherche présentent les plus importants résultats de la thèse. Le plus important résultat de cette thèse a été la base de données de tous les 40 géosites des Gorges du Danube en Roumanie. Tous ces géosites ont été évalués à l’aide d’une méthode innovante, reproductible et efficace qui tende vers un maximum d’objectivité (méthode développée à l’Institut de Géographie en Lausanne). Tous les 40 géosites ont été évalués séparément selon plusieurs critères qui combinent la valeur scientifique centrale avec des valeurs additionnelles (des valeurs spécifiques en fonction du contexte) et tous ces géosites ont leur propre fiche d’évaluation. Notre étude concernant les géosites nous a montré que dans les Gorges du Danube en Roumanie il y a un grand potentiel géotouristique qui peut être développé autour de ces géosites. Toutefois, un manque de sensibilisation du géopatrimoine est observé parmi la population roumaine, ainsi que parmi les personnes qui gèrent le pouvoir administrative et politique du territoire. La troisième partie de notre thèse est concentrée sur ces aspects: la vulgarisation des géosites locales à l’aide de plusieurs méthodes et en proposant quelques circuits géotouristiques. Cette recherche peut être considérée comme un lien entre les activités géotouristiques et les sciences de la Terre. / Despite the increased interest in various aspects of geoheritage, little importance is given to Romania, to Eastern Europe in general. This research consists of an inventory of the geosites and geomorphosites from the spectacular gorges of the Danube (the Iron Gates region), which are characterized by a various geological structure and a stunning natural environment. After this step, all the geosites were evaluated and, some of them, integrated in valorization projects. After the first section of the thesis where the main concepts were defined and the geographical territory was described in detail, the second and the third part of our research present the main results of the thesis. The main result of this research was the database with the most important 40 geosites from Danube’s Gorges. All those geosites were evaluated using an innovative method,reproducible and efficient, tending to a maximum objectivity (developed at Geographical Institute in Lausanne). All 40 geosites have been evaluated separately after several criteria which combine the assessment of central „scientific values” with additional, context-specific values, and all have their own evaluation card. Our geosites study revealed that, in Danube’s Gorges, there are actual geotourism capacities that could be developed around these geosites. Nevertheless, a lack in geoheritage awareness is detected among the Romanian population as well as among the forces in charge of territorial development. The third section of our thesis is concentrated around those aspects: the vulgarization of local geosites through several methods and suggesting some geotouristic trails. This research can be considered as a link between geotourism activities and Earth Sciences.

<p>Transboundary protected areas are a fairly recent concept that have been increasing in popularity and are increasingly being integrated into large international organizations’ environmental policy making. This essay examines the phenomena through the cooperation between two national parks, Parc National des Pyrénées in France and Parque Nacional Ordesa Monte Perdido in Spain. The theoretical framework used in this essay is based upon border theory, focusing on the different factors that influence the behavior of the border dweller and how the different social conceptions of nature influence the way it is managed. The results in this study result from researching published and private documents from the national parks and interviews carried out with staff from the park administrations from both countries. The collaboration between these two national parks dates back twenty years and the cooperation has been carried out in many small projects. Historical ties between the villages in the border region, which also shares a common culture and lingual heritage, have inspired the cooperation. There are also economical benefits that influence the collaboration, such as the European Union’s regional policy that provides funds for transboundary cooperation. A mutual world heritage site, Pyrénées – Mont Perdu, is also situated within the parks’ territories, which should be managed conjointly by the national parks. However, an in-depth and well-integrated cooperation has not been found, as difference in the nature and how the organizations themselves are managed and regulated has generated a long and complicated course for decisions regarding cooperation. It appears that even if nature itself might be boundless, the national jurisdictions that prevail over nature are clearly adhered to and there are no available transboundary structures designed to handle a cooperation of this kind.</p> / <p>Gränsöverskridande naturvård är ett relativt nytt koncept som alltmer ökat i popularitet och även inlemmats i flera stora internationella organisationers naturvårdspolicy. Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka gränsöverskridande naturvård mellan två angränsande nationalparker, Parc National des Pyrénées i Frankrike och Parque Nacional Ordesa Monte Perdido i Spanien. Uppsatsen har utgått ifrån gränsteoretiska utgångspunkter i form av vilka faktorer som påverkar gränsbeteendet och med särskilt fokus på hur föreställningar om naturen påverkar hur denna förvaltas. Samarbetet har granskats genom dokument publicerade av parkerna samt genom intervjuer med personal i de båda parkerna. Nationalparkerna har under drygt tjugo år haft en viss samverkan som konkretiserats genom flera småskaliga projekt. Samarbetet har inspirerats av en historisk samverkan mellan byarna i gränsregionen som har ett gemensamt språk och kulturarv samt ekonomiska incitament i form av den Europeiska Unionens stöd för samverkan mellan gränsregioner. Inom nationalparkernas område återfinns även ett gemensamt världsarv, Pyrénées – Mont Perdu, som skall förvaltas av nationalparkerna tillsammans. Studien visar dock att en fördjupad samverkan mellan parkerna inte har kunnats implementeras i praktiken, eftersom naturen förvaltas och regleras på olika sätt i de båda nationalparkerna. Skillnader mellan Parc National des Pyrénées och Parque Nacional Ordesas förvaltningsstruktur och administrationssätt gör att beslutsvägen för samarbetsfrågor blir lång och komplicerad. Även om naturen själv är gränslös, visar studien att de bestämmelser som råder över den, är starkt bundna till den nationella organisationsformen och att det i nuläget inte finns någon gränsöverskridande struktur som kan hantera frågor av detta slag.</p>

Transboundary protected areas are a fairly recent concept that have been increasing in popularity and are increasingly being integrated into large international organizations’ environmental policy making. This essay examines the phenomena through the cooperation between two national parks, Parc National des Pyrénées in France and Parque Nacional Ordesa Monte Perdido in Spain. The theoretical framework used in this essay is based upon border theory, focusing on the different factors that influence the behavior of the border dweller and how the different social conceptions of nature influence the way it is managed. The results in this study result from researching published and private documents from the national parks and interviews carried out with staff from the park administrations from both countries. The collaboration between these two national parks dates back twenty years and the cooperation has been carried out in many small projects. Historical ties between the villages in the border region, which also shares a common culture and lingual heritage, have inspired the cooperation. There are also economical benefits that influence the collaboration, such as the European Union’s regional policy that provides funds for transboundary cooperation. A mutual world heritage site, Pyrénées – Mont Perdu, is also situated within the parks’ territories, which should be managed conjointly by the national parks. However, an in-depth and well-integrated cooperation has not been found, as difference in the nature and how the organizations themselves are managed and regulated has generated a long and complicated course for decisions regarding cooperation. It appears that even if nature itself might be boundless, the national jurisdictions that prevail over nature are clearly adhered to and there are no available transboundary structures designed to handle a cooperation of this kind. / Gränsöverskridande naturvård är ett relativt nytt koncept som alltmer ökat i popularitet och även inlemmats i flera stora internationella organisationers naturvårdspolicy. Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka gränsöverskridande naturvård mellan två angränsande nationalparker, Parc National des Pyrénées i Frankrike och Parque Nacional Ordesa Monte Perdido i Spanien. Uppsatsen har utgått ifrån gränsteoretiska utgångspunkter i form av vilka faktorer som påverkar gränsbeteendet och med särskilt fokus på hur föreställningar om naturen påverkar hur denna förvaltas. Samarbetet har granskats genom dokument publicerade av parkerna samt genom intervjuer med personal i de båda parkerna. Nationalparkerna har under drygt tjugo år haft en viss samverkan som konkretiserats genom flera småskaliga projekt. Samarbetet har inspirerats av en historisk samverkan mellan byarna i gränsregionen som har ett gemensamt språk och kulturarv samt ekonomiska incitament i form av den Europeiska Unionens stöd för samverkan mellan gränsregioner. Inom nationalparkernas område återfinns även ett gemensamt världsarv, Pyrénées – Mont Perdu, som skall förvaltas av nationalparkerna tillsammans. Studien visar dock att en fördjupad samverkan mellan parkerna inte har kunnats implementeras i praktiken, eftersom naturen förvaltas och regleras på olika sätt i de båda nationalparkerna. Skillnader mellan Parc National des Pyrénées och Parque Nacional Ordesas förvaltningsstruktur och administrationssätt gör att beslutsvägen för samarbetsfrågor blir lång och komplicerad. Även om naturen själv är gränslös, visar studien att de bestämmelser som råder över den, är starkt bundna till den nationella organisationsformen och att det i nuläget inte finns någon gränsöverskridande struktur som kan hantera frågor av detta slag.

Tourism has greatly increased world wide in recent decades, especially in China. Nature-dominated Scenic and Historic Interest Areas, representative of the Chinese philosophy of the 'oneness of nature and human beings', are the most popular tourism destinations in China. Tourism impacts in these areas have been receiving the attention of heritage landscape conservation. Management actions have largely been determined with an emphasis on natural values. This thesis maintains that values relating to nature are socially and culturally constructed, and that they dynamically change through history. By investigating the social and cultural structures underpinning values related to nature, a macro-history method has been applied to explore the traditional Chinese View of nature from traditional Chinese philosophies and landscape cultures. An instrumental case study method has been applied to explore the contemporary Chinese values of nature. The relationships between traditional values and contemporary values have been identified. It was found that the traditional Chinese values still have a profound influence today, although many aspects have been distorted. Historic high culture in natural areas has been replaced by mass tourism culture and Western values. The research also found that today's values are more socially and politically contested. It has been revealed that there are deep social, cultural, economic and political roots underlying heritage conservation management actions. Changing and contested values have been interpreted from these perspectives. The values inherent in the Chinese View of nature, such as holistic philosophical perspectives, sophisticated Chinese landscape languages, and evolving living landscapes, have been identified. The contributions of these values to relevant theories of environmental philosophy, cultural landscape, national park tourism and heritage conservation have been identified by this research. The implications for multi-cultural dialogues in heritage landscape conservation have been addressed.

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