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LIST OF THREATS (Source: UNESCO Status of Conservation)

A. Buildings and Development


1. Commercial development
2. Housing Industrial areas
3. Interpretative and visitation facilities
4. Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure

B. Transportation Infrastructure
1. Air transport infrastructure
2. Effects arising from use of transportation infrastructure
3. Ground transport infrastructure
4. Marine transport infrastructure
5. Underground transport infrastructure

C. Services Infrastructures
1. Localised utilities
2. Major linear utilities
3. Non-renewable energy facilities
4. Renewable energy facilities
5. Water infrastructure

D. Pollution
1. Air pollution
2. Ground water pollution
3. Input of excess energy
4. Pollution of marine waters
5. Solid waste
6. Surface water pollution

E. Biological resource use/modification


1. Aquaculture
2. Commercial hunting
3. Commercial wild plant collection
4. Crop production
5. Fishing/collecting aquatic resources
6. Forestry /wood production
7. Land conversion
8. Livestock farming / grazing of domesticated animals
9. Subsistence hunting
10. Subsistence wild plant collection

F. Physical resource extraction


1. Mining Oil and gas
2. Quarrying
3. Water (extraction)

G. Local conditions affecting physical fabric


1. Dust
2. Micro-organisms
3. Pests
4. Radiation/light
5. Relative humidity
6. Temperature
7. Water (rain/water table)
8. Wind
H. Social/cultural uses of heritage
1. Changes in traditional ways of life and knowledge system
2. Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community
3. Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation
4. Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting
5. Ritual / spiritual / religious and associative uses
6. Society's valuing of heritage

I. Other human activities


1. Civil unrest
2. Deliberate destruction of heritage
3. Illegal activities
4. Military training
5. Terrorism War

J. Climate change and severe weather events


1. Changes to oceanic waters
2. Desertification
3. Drought
4. Flooding
5. Other climate change impacts
6. Storms (Typhoons)
7. Temperature change

K. Sudden ecological or geological events


1. Avalanche/ landslide
2. Earthquake
3. Erosion and siltation/ deposition
4. Fire (widlfires)
5. Tsunami/tidal wave
6. Volcanic eruption

L. Invasive/alien species or hyper-abundant species


1. Hyper-abundant species
2. Invasive / alien freshwater species
3. Invasive / alien marine species
4. Invasive/alien terrestrial species
5. Modified genetic material
6. Translocated species

M. Management and Institutional Factors


1. Financial resources
2. Governance
3. High impact research / monitoring activities
4. Human resources
5. Legal framework
6. Low impact research / monitoring activities
7. Management activities
8. Management systems/ management plan

Cultural Mapping Training


Arvin Manuel Villalon 11/08/2016

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