This volume looks at sustainable protection and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage, particularly in view of the current challenges of the 21st century. For more than 40 years the World Heritage Convention has regulated the protection of the cultural and natural heritage of humankind, particularly in that heritage shall be protected if it is threatened by modern development.The international community has also adopted sustainability and sustainable development, as objectives to facilitate the protection of cultural and natural heritage. Sustainable heritage protection and use must therefore be preserved in the face of the global challenges it faces and must be perceived in terms of societal, political and corresponding economic paradigms.

Provides strategies for dealing with 21st century challenges for heritage protection

Introduction and Introductory Reflections.- Part I  Beyond the Current - New Political Commitments.- Culture as an Enabler for Sustainable Development - Challenges for the World Heritage Convention in Adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.- The Potential of Culture for Sustainable Development in Heritage Studies.- Natural World Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals.- Part II Beyond Existing Approaches - New and Innovative Theoretical Perceptions.- The Sustainability of Digital Documentary Heritage.- Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Culture - Diverging Concepts and Practices in European Heritage Work.- Culture, Development and Sustainability: The Cultural Impact of Development and Culture's Role in Sustainability.- From Obstacle to Resource:  How Built Cultural Heritage can Contribute to Resilient Cities.- Part III Shifts in the Understanding of Heritage and Sustainability.- Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development in Sacred Places: Towards a New Approach.- Beyond Conventional Limits: Intangible Heritage Values and Sustainability Through Sport.- Contextual Sustainability in Heritage Practice: Urbanization, Neighbourliness, and Community Dialogue in Akçalar, Turkey.- Part IV Best Practises and Narratives.- Shaken Cityscapes: Tangible and Intangible Urban Heritage in Kathmandu, Nepal and Yogyakarta, Indonesia.- Aspects of Social Imperative: The Sustainable Historic Environment in the Developing World.- The Dilemma of Zambia's Barotse Plains Cultural Landscape Nomination: Implications for Sustainable Development.- Feeling Responsible for the Good Life on Earth: The Construction of Social Spaces and Sustainability in the Andes.- Part V Beyond the Mainstream.- Sustainable Power: Decolonising Sustainability Through Anishinaabe Birchbark Canoe Building.- Cant of Reconquest and the Struggle for Restoring Sustainability of the Southern Paiutes.- The Past and Future of Indigenous Peoples' Heritage - Transforming the Legacies of Non-Sustainability of Protected Areas.- Hue at an Existential Crossroads: Heritage Protection and Sustainability in an Asian Developing Country Context.- Part VI Aspects of Implementation.- Malaga vs Picasso. Re-branding a City Through Non-Material Heritage.- Geoethics and Sustainability Education Through an Open Source CIGIS Application: the Memory of Places Project in Calabria, Southern Italy, as a Case Study.- Integration of Cultural Heritage into Disaster Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunity for Increased Disaster Resilience.- Facilitating the Process Towards Social Sustainability: A Culture-Based Method for Mapping Historic Public Places, Applied to the Example of Tabriz Bazaar, Iran.- Heritage Impact Assessments as an Advanced Tool for a Sustainable Management of Cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites - From Theory to Practice.- Annexes: Documents and Materials concerning Heritage and sustainable Development.