Heritage: Identification, Conservation, and Management
Graeme Aplin
'The concept of 'heritage' covers the elements of the world that we feel are worth preserving for future generations. Heritage: Identification, Conservation and Management examines the wide variety of immovable or place-based heritage sites that make up our cultural and natural heritage, from historic areas and buildings to the wilderness. The concept of heritage-its individual and subjective nature, which is embedded in social structure, power and group identity-is treated at length, as are the broader notions of its scale and context.
This book discusses separately the identification, conservation and management of heritage items. Relationships with tourism and other commercial activities are considered, along with related matters such as visitor management and interpretation. Australian perceptions, approaches, and legislative and bureaucratic structures are discussed and compared with those of a number of other nations. The relevant approaches of the USA, New Zealand, South Africa, China, Thailand and some Western European nations are dealt with in detail in later chapters.
This well-illustrated book, offering photographs from around the world, will be invaluable for all students and practitioners interested in heritage.
A web site with material designed to complement and add further value to the book is available at http://es.mq.edu.au/courses/REM/heritage.htm
Graeme Aplin teaches at Macquarie University in heritage and conservation and, more generally, in environmental studies. He is the author of Australians and their Environment, Oxford University Press, 1998, and co-author of Global Environmental Crisis: An Australian Perspective, second edition, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Heritage: Identification, Conservation, and Management
Graeme Aplin
Oxford University Press
Oxford
2002
ISBN 0 19 551297 9