Integrating sustainable socio-economic development into management systems of cultural world heritage sites: The case of Herculaneum, Italy

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Tezin Türü: Doktora

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2023

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: SEDA DUZCU

Danışman: Zübeyde Müge Akkar Ercan

Özet:

Sustainable development has become one of the most pressing concerns of heritage management in the modern world. In recent years, the factors such as globalisation, changes in climate, demographic growth, growing inequalities, diminishing resources and growing threats to heritage such as development pressure have led the cultural heritage sector to focus more on the relationship between conservation and sustainable development. Today, States Parties to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage are expected to integrate sustainable development principles into their heritage conservation and management systems. This research questions how to incorporate these principles into the management systems of cultural world heritage sites, particularly the ones in declining urban areas. Among the dimensions of sustainable development, this thesis focuses on utilising cultural heritage in achieving “inclusive economic development” and “inclusive social development”. This research will investigate strategies to be used in the management systems of cultural world heritage sites, particularly the ones in declining urban areas, within a sustainable socio-economic development framework. It will also identify indicators to assess the effectiveness level of these strategies. Using a single-case study approach as a research method, this thesis focuses on the Herculaneum Conservation Project in Ercolano and seeks to assess this project to understand how far it contributed to the sustainable socio-economic development of Ercolano between 2001 and 2020.