UNESCO World Heritage List

Bruno Frey

Chapter Chapter 13 in Economics of Art and Culture, 2019, pp 103-113 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The World Heritage List compiles built and natural sites and more recently also intangible traditions and customs judged to be of “outstanding value to humanity” by a commission of UNESCO. The main goals are to draw attention to sites and traditions in danger of disappearing and to assist in preserving them. There are some negative effects: questionable selection; undue political intervention; overextension; and attracting destruction in conflicts. There are alternatives to the UNESCO List. Sometimes no intervention is needed, in some cases market forces can be employed, and several other evaluations are available about what is worth preserving.

Keywords: UNESCO; Selection; Attention; Protection; Political intervention; Overextension; Destruction; Alternatives to Heritage List; Competing evaluations; Random selection; Popular sites (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15748-7_13

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