This article presents the theoretical framework for evaluating cultural heritage and the economic effects of investments in its conservation and restoration. The methods considered are: impact studies, the hedonic pricing method, the contingent value method, and the transportation cost method. The paper examines the methodological aspects, implementation difficulties, and limitations specific to each method. Each method is also illustrated by the results of quantitative studies in the field.
The CulturEU Funding Guide is a practical guide developed by the European Commission to help cultural and creative organizations and professionals identify relevant European Union funding opportunities for the 2021–2027 period. It provides a clear overview of available EU programmes, funding schemes, and eligibility conditions.
The document is designed as an easy-to-use reference that helps users understand which EU funds best match their projects, how to apply for them, and what types of activities can be supported, covering a wide range of cultural and creative sectors.
So far little attention has been paid to the territorial aspects of cultural heritage, dispersion
patterns and clustering processes nor to the changes induced by tourism on the physical,
economic and social environment. S
Purpose – Food has entered commerce as an intangible cultural heritage (ICH) because
consumers want authentic food and memorable consumption experiences.
Broadening the focus on cultural economies of ICH to include ways of caring for the future emphasises the uniqueness of living traditions and their limitations in becoming marketable assets. It highlights the reconsideration of valorisation as a means of care that facilitates the vibrancy and resilience of ICH through the interplay of its cultural, social and economic dimensions. From a broader perspective, the paper specifically addresses the non-monetary forms of resourcing for ICH of six UNESCO-listed cultural expressions, Blaudruck, Swabian-Alemannic Carnival, Poetry Slam, Batana Eco Museum, Fado Music and Falconry, which are hard to measure. Each is practised in a publicly visible, vibrant way and enjoys broad participation by diverse people. The resourcing of ICH through sharing and caring in networks, community-based resourcing and commoning, demonstrates the crucial role of cultural economies as modalities of care in maintaining the robustness and vibrancy of ICH.
Concerns regarding the impact of social media and digital platforms on children and youth’s interest in their living heritage have been a recurrent topic in capacity-building workshops for the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. While UNESCO’s Living Heritage Entity and other organizations and stakeholders dedicated to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage acknowledge this threat, efforts to mitigate it concentrate primarily on leveraging the opportunities offered by digitalization to integrate living heritage into programmes aimed at enriching young people’s engagement with living heritage (such as education or awareness-raising programmes). Insufficient attention is given to the more harmful ways in which children and youth utilize digital platforms within their family, homes, community or other ‘micro-environments’, in ways that detract from the intergenerational transmission of living heritage. This paper emphasizes the necessity of examining and understanding how social media use and digital platforms impact children and youth within these more intimate environments in which they grow up, and of defining ways to mitigate negative impacts. Drawing from the author’s observations during capacity-building workshops across the Asia-Pacific region over the past decade, this paper raises questions and proposes strategies for addressing the problematic use of social media and digital platforms by the younger generations, drawing on tools provided by the 2003 Convention. It also hopes to contribute to understanding of the wider socio-cultural spheres of the Anthropocene, with its focus on contemporary technology and media, and how they are shaping the living heritage of future generations.
This article focuses on the empirical measurement of the values generated by an intangible cultural heritage good in the territory that hosts it, understood as a set of positive externalities internalized by the territory and its inhabitants, both permanent and visitors.
The article identifies factors related to the local context that influence the valuation of a local, traditional and internationally recognized music festival.
Pacific island countries (PICs) are examples of some of the least developed nations in the world. To improve their economic performance they are being urged to enter various trade agreements and in general to put in place frameworks to support twenty-first century priorities and international agendas including intellectual property regimes based, primarily, on western models. Yet PICs have long-standing traditional ways of safeguarding ‘intellectual property’. Their traditional perceptions of this tangible and intangible cultural heritage are not always compatible with the models being proposed, both by their own governments and by external agencies with the consequence that initiatives to boost their small island economies may fail to take root among local communities or fail to recognize or protect the various forms of property and resources which are important to them and, in some cases, may have unforeseen adverse consequences. This paper uses examples from PICs to highlight the present failure of national and trans-national intellectual property regimes to adequately acknowledge the different approaches which indigenous people in the region have towards ‘intellectual property’ and consequences that this may have on their development in the current aid for trade environment.
Overview of funding mechanisms under the Convention.
Description of UNESCO capacity-building initiatives.
Assessment of implementation and funding effectiveness.