World Heritage and the Modern Era

摘要

World Heritage consists of cultural and natural heritage inscribed in the World Heritage List, which was established by the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted in 1972 by the General Conference of UNESCO. Properties are nominated by the countries in which they are situated, and are approved for inclusion in the list by the World Heritage Committee, which is made up of 21 countries elected by the convention's General Assembly. Nominated properties undergo preliminary evaluation by advisory bodies named in the Convention - the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) for cultural properties, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for natural properties, and both bodies for mixed properties. (Another advisory body, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), does not participate in examinations.) The Convention also provides for another type of list - the List of World Heritage in Danger, which contains World Heritage properties that require major operations for their conservation.