This Workshop introduces the new ICOMOS Guidance on Heritage Impact Assessments for World Heritage sites. All World Heritage sites in the UK will shortly have an agreed Statement of Outstanding Universal value (SoOUV), setting out why the property was considered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to have OUV at the time of its inscription. [...]
ICOMOS Documentation Centre, Paris- World Heritage News
- The Rapid Response Facility Contributes to avoiding the ecological isolation of Romania's Retezat Massif
- UNESCO and Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock launch 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
- Statement of the United Nations Foundation in Support of the World Heritage Convention's 40th Anniversary
ICOMOS-UK Christmas Lecture and Wine Reception- Mapping the Silk Roads, 9th December 2010, 6.30 – 8.30pm
The lecture will be given by Tim Williams, Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London (UCL). Chinese silk – unique, expensive and portable – and much in demand in the Roman Empire underpinned trade along a complex network of long distance trade routes linking China, central Asia and Europe that have [...]
Blenheim World Heritage Site – defining its Outstanding Universal Value
Since 2007, UNESCO has asked new World Heritage Site’s to provide a Statement of Outstanding Universal Value (“SOUV”) as part of the nomination process. Blenheim was inscribed as a World Heritage Site (“WHS”) back in 1987 and along with a large number of other sites across the world, we now need to produce our own SOUV. [...]
