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Impact Assessment of a National Park Under the Auspices of Unesco
Baourakis, George; Fakotakis, George; Drakos, Periklis; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economies … 5 (2016) 3, pp. 68-84
Crete features many protected areas of exceptional natural beauty that attract thousands of visitors every season. Many local enterprises count on that touristic activity to increase their revenues. One of the most important and well known protected areas of Crete is the Samaria National Park....
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The politics of neutrality: UNESCO's Social Science Department, 1946-1956
Rangil, Teresa Tomas - 2011
sociologists) who were members of UNESCO's Social Science Department between 1946 and 1956. Making use of recent literature on the …
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Information for All? The emergence of UNESCO’s policy discourse on the information society (1990-2003)
Pohle, Julia - 2016
The dissertation analyses the emergence of UNESCO’s policy discourse on the information society between 1990 and 2003 …. Taking into account the historical, political and institutional background of UNESCO and its history in the field of … discourse: the INFOethics conference series; the creation of UNESCO’s intergovernmental Information For All Programme (IFAP …
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The Internet as a global good: UNESCO’s attempt to negotiate an international framework for universal access to cyberspace
Pohle, Julia - In: International Communication Gazette 80 (2018) 4, pp. 354-368
Internet, adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2003. During the … contentious negotiations, UNESCO had to find a balance between the divergent positions of its member states and to account for the … different levels of technological development amongst them. By retracing the performative and discursive struggles that UNESCO …
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Editorial – Communication and internet policy: a critical rights-based history and future
Kerr, Aphra; Musiani, Francesca; Pohle, Julia - In: Internet Policy Review 8 (2019) 1, pp. 1-16
This special issue of Internet Policy Review brings together a hand-picked selection of articles presented in the Communication Policy and Technology (CPT) section at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Eugene, Oregon (USA),...
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World heritage list: Does it make sense?
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010
The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World …
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Making world heritage truly global : the culture certificate scheme
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2009
Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List and how much each nation is to contribute to that...
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International information policy: UNESCO in historical perspective
Pohle, Julia - In: Research Handbook on Information Policy, (pp. 96-112). 2021
This chapter provides a short history of UNESCO's activities relating to information policy. It focuses on the … political dynamics and debates surrounding the creation of UNESCO's two intergovernmental programmes explicitly dedicated to … seeks to situate UNESCO's efforts related to the formulation of national and international information policies in the …
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When heritage goes ways apart: Heritagization and local involvement at the complex of monuments in Hue, Vietnam
2019
changed when the Hue Complex got enlisted by UNESCO as cultural World Heritage site in 1993, and since then it has claimed to …
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