Abstract
Since the 1968 s.-c. Bruntland Report, sustainable development has become increasingly important in the international agenda. After the controversial success of the Millennium Development Goals, their heirs—the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals—are beginning to show their potential. In such a scenario, the discourse over sustainability and sustainable development is attracting attention from the international community, as well as from states and stakeholders around the globe.
Renewed global attention to nature (as a key element that needs to be protected per se) together with the worldwide emerging field of cultural heritage law as an autonomous field of law has helped shed light on the interdependence of humans and their environment, as well as on the links between cultural heritage and the natural environment. In such a framework, cultural heritage has gradually infiltrated the sustainable development discourse.
The present work aims at analyzing the diverse facets of the relationship between culture and nature to draw attention to the links between cultural heritage and sustainable development.
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I wander thro’ each charter’d street,//Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,//And mark in every face I meet,//Marks of weakness, marks of woe.//In every cry of every Man,//In every Infant’s cry of fear,//In every voice: in every ban,//The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.//How the Chimney-sweeper’s cry//Every black’ning Church appalls,//And the hapless Soldier’s sigh//Runs in blood down Palace walls. //But most, thro’ midnight streets I hear//How the youthful Harlot’s curse//Blasts the new born Infant’s tear,//And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
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Is then no nook of English ground secure//From rash assault? Schemes of retirement sown//In youth, and ‘mid the busy world kept pure//As when their earliest flowers of hope were blown,//Must perish; how can they this blight endure?//And must he too the ruthless change bemoan//Who scorns a false utilitarian lure//'Mid his paternal fields at random thrown?//Baffle the threat, bright Scene, from Orresthead//Given to the pausing traveler’s rapturous glance://Plead for thy peace, thou beautiful romance //Of nature; and, if human hearts be dead,//Speak, passing winds; ye torrents, with your strong//And constant voice, protest against the wrong.
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For the purposes of this Convention, the following shall be considered as ‘cultural heritage’: monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture and painting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cave dwellings and combinations of features, which are of Outstanding Universal Value from the point of view of history, art or science; - groups of buildings: groups of separate or connected buildings which, because of their architecture, their homogeneity or their place in the landscape, are of Outstanding Universal Value from the point of view of history, art or science; - sites: works of man or the combined works of nature and of man, and areas including archaeological sites which are of Outstanding Universal Value from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological points of view.
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For the purposes of this Convention, the following shall be considered as ‘natural heritage’: natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations, which are of Outstanding Universal Value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view; - geological and physiographical formations and precisely delineated areas which constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals and plants of Outstanding Universal Value from the point of view of science or conservation; - natural sites or precisely delineated natural areas of Outstanding Universal Value from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty.
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[…] Being aware that cultural diversity creates a rich and varied world, which increases the range of choices and nurtures human capacities and values, and therefore is a mainspring for sustainable development for communities, peoples and nations,
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Recognizing the importance of traditional knowledge as a source of intangible and material wealth, and in particular the knowledge systems of indigenous peoples, and its positive contribution to sustainable development, as well as the need for its adequate protection and promotion, […].
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See Human Rights Committee, Bernard Ominayak, Chief of the Lubicon Lake Band v Canada, Comm. N. 167/1984, views adopted 26 March 1990; lmari Länsman et al v Finland, Comm No 511/1992, views adopted 26 October 1994; Jouni E Länsman et al v Finland, Comm No 671/1995, views adopted 30 October 1996; Ángela Poma Poma v Peru, Comm No 1457/2006, views adopted on 27 March 2009.
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Ferrazzi, S. (2024). Cultural Heritage Law and Natural Cultural Paradigms Within the Sustainable Development Discourse. In: Mastandrea Bonaviri, G., Sadowski, M.M. (eds) Heritage in War and Peace. Law and Visual Jurisprudence, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47347-0_6
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