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AcknowledgingScientific Ideasassociated withWorld Heritage sites
Susan DenyerSecretary, ICOMOS-UK World Heritage Adviser, ICOMOS
 
World Heritage Convention 1972
for the protection of World’s Cultural & NaturalHeritage
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Set up to recognise sites of ‘outstandinguniversal value’ which:
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Are part of the ‘world heritage of mankind as awhole’
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Deserve ‘protection & transmission to futuregenerations’
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Convention ratified by State Parties
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Sites nominated by the State Party
World Heritage and ScienceWorkshop, 7th May 2009
 
World HeritageConvention
Custodians for the Future
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Encapsulate the idea of heritage that isof outstanding value to humanity shouldbe passed on to future generations
Collective Responsibility 
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“…this Convention recognise that suchheritage constitutes a world heritage for whose protection it is the duty of theinternational community as a whole tocooperate
"WHS responsibility not only of individualnations but of all mankind – belong tous all
World Heritage and ScienceWorkshop, 7th May 2009
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