Cultural Impact Assessments · Sept03.ppt Cultural Impact Assessments Richard A Engelhardt Charge...
Transcript of Cultural Impact Assessments · Sept03.ppt Cultural Impact Assessments Richard A Engelhardt Charge...
home\Rengel\Bar Association Sept03.ppt
Cultural Impact Assessments
Richard A EngelhardtCharge de Mission and Senior Advisor
UNESCO
OBJECTIVE OF CULTURE IMPACT ASSESSMENT
To protect the long-term sustainability of cultural assets from destruction or irreversible damage by avoiding or mitigating adverse impacts resulting from competition for space and resources with proposed excavation, construction, infrastructure, resettlement, or other development projects
home\Rengel\Bar Association Sept03.ppt
EXAMPLES OF NEGATIVE IMPACTS
1. Inadequate legal framework for the protection of historic properties
control of demolition and improper restoration of built heritagecontrol of inappropriate development of open spacescontrol of unsuitable economic activities within protected zones
2. Lack of inventory and assessment of significance of historic assets
3. Air, water, noise and visual pollution
4. Loss of traditional skills, crafts, rituals, and practices
5. Changes in the traditional land use and economic base
6. Changes in lifestyle and family structure
7. Disappearing arts, crafts, practices
4
IMPACT ON
Integrity and morphology
Historic and social settings
Standing structures
Cultural spaces and landscapes
Cultural, social
economic processes
ArchaeologyNon-movable or contextual
art
Natural Habitat
Diversity
home\Rengel\Bar Association Sept03.ppt
5
•Evaluate risk•Measure carrying capacity•Ascertain rate of acceptable change•Take corrective/mitigating action
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
The degree to which the ecosystem, habitat or landscape can accommodate the various impacts of infrastructure development without sustaining irreversible damage
Environmental carrying capacity
home\Rengel\Bar Association Sept03.ppt
Cultural and social carrying capacity
The level beyond which development introduces unwanted social change and adversely affects local communities and their way of life
Psychological carrying capacity
The level beyond which the unique and defining characteristics of a place are lost and with them the essential qualitiesthat people seek in their community and surrounding environment
home\Rengel\Bar Association Sept03.ppt
Partners in the protection and conservation of World Heritage can be those individual and other stakeholders, especially local communities, governmental, non-governmental and private organization and owners who have an interest in the management of a World Heritage property
10
Actors/Stakeholders in process:
Custodian / owner
Developer
Assessor
Regulatory agency
Public
home\Rengel\Bar Association Sept03.ppt
Expert assessment of significance
Analysis of planning controls
home\Rengel\Bar Association Sept03.ppt
Reporting, review
STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIPS IN CONDUCTING IMPACT ASSESSMENT
RESIDENTS DEVELOPERS OFFICIALS/PROFESSIONALS SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION
Assess vulnerability
Determine carrying capacity
Model optionsModel options Model options
Establish code of conduct
Formulate management planFormulate management plan Formulate management plan
Establish rules for sharing risk and benefits (mediation)
Establish rules for sharing risk and benefits (mediation)
Establish rules for sharing risk and benefits (mediation)
Monitor results, report, reviewMonitor results, report, review Monitor results, report, review
Modify actionModify action Modify action
Define significance Define significance
Evaluate asset potentialEvaluate asset potential
Develop mitigation strategy