This case study is part of the Contemporary Cases Online series. The series provides critical case studies that are original, flexible, challenging, controversial and research-informed, driven by the needs of teaching and learning.

World Heritage Sites are some of the recognised locations around the world. This work covers the management issues encountered at cultural and natural UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It considers various aspects in arriving at solutions for site management principles. It covers issues such as WHS designation, marketing, visitor management, and more.

This dissertation explores the difficulties of cultural heritage management through the lens of stakeholder theory. The literature review examined the current body of academic research in the areas of cultural heritage management, World Heritage Sites, stakeholder collaboration within cultural heritage management, and stakeholder theory. The literature uncovered that, despite the wealth of research in respects to the difficulties of cultural heritage management, and the prevailing discourse of stakeholder collaboration, there appears to be an overly prescriptive and positivist approach to research in both fields. Interestingly, in relation to cultural heritage management research, few studies focus on the managers and how dealing with multiple stakeholders impacts on their decisions and administration of heritage sites; instead tend to focus on local communities and the tourism industry. Therefore, this research aimed to get to the core of these managerial complexities through a case study analysis of Edinburgh's Old and New Towns, a United Kingdom World Heritage Site. The information gathered for this research was accomplished through a series of semi-structured interviews with managers responsible for the administration of Edinburgh's World Heritage. This research found that Edinburgh's heritage managers faced many of the common problems already professed throughout academia. However, unlike past research this study investigated deeper into the heritage manager's role. This included highlighting the pressures on daily activities and administrative decisions, and the institutional difficulties which dominate managerial roles. Also, this research demonstrates that while stakeholder collaboration can lead to constructive frameworks for successful heritage management, this is over ambitious. This is because, in Edinburgh's case, many managerial difficulties originate from stakeholder groups pressure regardless of managerial actions to encourage collaboration. Additionally, deeper analysis discovered numerous issues which current studies fail to fully acknowledge. This includes the pressures of inter-managerial relationships, and the need for development in the face of persistent opposition.

Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities examines how the two key issues of urban conservation and sustainability relate to each other in the context of historic cities, and how they can be brought together in a common philosophy and practice that is mutually supportive. It sets out the theoretical and practical background to architectural conservation and how its perceived relevance and level of attainment can be extended when harnessed to wider agendas of sustainability and cultural identity. It tests the achievement of urban conservation through examples from across Europe and further afield and relates them to the sustainability agenda.

This thematic collection of 26 case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage in the context of sustainable development.

This Handbook sets out and assesses the international legal framework governing the protection of cultural heritage. Cultural heritage is frequently not bounded by national territory and can only effectively be protected through international cooperation. This is a primary driving force of contemporary multilateral, regional and bilateral initiatives, including legal measures. Accordingly, the handbook is primarily focused on public international law, but it embraces also aspects of private international law and comparative law. It analyses the substance of cultural heritage protection and explores its links with other areas of public and private international law, as well as the ways in which cultural heritage law is contributing to the development of international law itself. The book concludes with an examination of the implementation of cultural heritage law and of regional approaches. It reflects the diversity of developments in almost every field of international law which is leading to this specialist area of law, and provides an overarching rationale for understanding and teaching cultural heritage law as a coherent body of law with key principles and practices. The book is designed in such a manner to enable a reader, whether it be a practitioner, policymaker, teacher or student, to pick and choose according their individual needs

Examines 9 international cases under the sections of Managing Heritage Sites, World Heritage Sites, and Heritage Tourism. Cases include: A Viking Case Study, Ethnic Enclaves: Singapore’s Little India, Managing Religious Heritage Attractions: The Case of Jerusalem, , Edinburgh WHS, Indigenous Tourism and Heritage: A Maori Case Study and more.

Historic Urban Landscape is a new approach to urban heritage management, promoted by UNESCO, and currently one of the most debated issues in the international preservation community. However, few conservation practitioners have a clear understanding of what it entails, and more importantly, what it can achieve. Examples drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide – from Timbuktu to Liverpool Richly illustrated with colour photographs Addresses key issues and best practice for urban conservation

This 5-hour free course explored how heritage sites have helped to forge Scottish national identity and history.