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2003 << 8th International Seminar >>Tenerife |
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Theme: "World Natural Heritage: Development, Sustainability and Ethics" Spain, 24 - 28 November 2003 Ever since the proclamation of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1972, the concept of cultural heritage has been completed by natural heritage, thus building a holistic approach of heritage being both cultural and natural and an intrinsic element of society. Scientific knowledge of this new concept of heritage has developed since 1972. Both cultural and natural heritage’s sustainability in a society which is constantly out of sync with its environment has led to the incorporation of ethics in this VIII Seminar of Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage organised by the University of La Laguna as a cross-cutting element of its thematic areas. Ethics relate this Seminar to previous editions of Forum UNESCO – University and heritage seminars and have been a constant concern of the universities participating in this network ever since its creation in 1995. Thus, the theme of natural heritage will complete previous debates held which stressed the universities’ ethical responsibility in cultural heritage issues. This will be achieved by integrating the many disciplines that are related to natural heritage and which have an influence on its conservation. Following on from the previous international Seminar held in 2002 in Jordan, this eighth edition once again welcomes all participants to a World Heritage site, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, and one of Spain’s richest natural environment communities: the Canarian Archipelago, which counts two sites listed on the World Heritage List: Garajonay National Park (inscribed in 1986 under criteria N(ii) (iii)) and San Cristobal de la Laguna (inscribed in 1999 under criteria C (ii) (iv)); and three sites which are Man and Biosphere Reserves (MAB): La Palma (inscribed in 1983 and extended in 1987 and 2002), Lanzarote (inscribed in 1993) and Isla de El Hierro (inscribed in 2000) (cf. Annex 1).
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