World Heritage
Global Strategy
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 In 1994 the World Heritage Committee
launched the Global
Strategy which aims to identify and give priority
to under-represented themes on the World Heritage
List. As a contribution to the strategy, IUCN
has been undertaking a series of Global
Theme Studies since 1996. These
studies review the natural values of the sites
on the World Heritage List under a given theme,
such as forests or wetlands; they also identify
gaps in coverage and suggest how to fill them.
The studies can be used as a guide for States Parties
to the World Heritage Convention when nominating
sites in the future and to IUCN and the World
Heritage Committee when evaluating new nominations.
As of November 2002, six Global
Theme Studies have been produced:
Earth's Geological History - A Contextual
Framework Assessment of World Heritage Fossil
Site Nominations
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A Global Overview of Wetland and Marine
Protected Areas on the World Heritage List, September 1997
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A Global Overview of Forest Protected
Areas on the World Heritage List September 1997
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A Global Overview of Human Use of World
Heritage Natural Sites, September 1988
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| A Global Overview of Protected Areas
on the World Heritage List of Particular Importance
for Biodiversity, November 2000 |
A Global Overview of Mountain Protected
Areas on the World Heritage List, September 2002
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Geological World Heritage: A Global Framework, September 2005
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World Heritage Thematic Study for Central Asia, August 2005
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Proceedings of the World Heritage Boreal workshop, October 2003
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Heritage Marine Biodiversity - Filling Critical
Gaps and Promoting Multi Site Approaches to New
Nominations of Tropical Coastal, Marine and Small
Island Ecosystems, held in Hanoi, Vietnam
25 February - 1 March 2002. |
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