Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cost effectiveness of the existing conservation grant disbursement mechanism in George Town, Penang. It reports the effect of disclosure of conservation preferences by the conservation agency on the conservation cost....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify factors affecting performance of heritage conservation projects in terms of project management parameters of time, cost, and quality. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory study was conducted in India, wherein 41 conservation professionals...

Purpose The main aim of this paper is to determine how well the UNESCO 2011 Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (hereafter, the HUL approach) is understood by the academic community today. It will review relevant research, highlight shortcomings regarding the HUL concept and approach and...

Purpose The integrity of heritage and landscape hinges on protection and restoration policies. Such policies are implemented through the determination of buffer zones that most of them are mainly based on the self-absorbed view, which isolates cultural sites from the community, instead of the...

This paper provides a summary of conflict management issues and options in the challenging cultural, ecological, economic and social context of Latin America and the Caribbean. Dealing with conflicts is one of the greatest challenge facing integrated coastal management because most of these...

This document presents a coastal and marine resources management strategy for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The strategy provides new directions for Bank activities which significantly affect sustainable development of coastal and marine areas in Latin America and the Caribbean....

The purpose of this document is to inform Bank staff and other interested parties about recent developments in integration and trade among the countries of the Western Hemisphere and between these and other countries and world regions.

The Bank is leading the involvement of development banks in financing urban heritage conservation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is a new area of work for the Bank and emerged in response to requests from borrowing member governments for assistance in their efforts to preserve...

O caso do centro histórico de Salvador (Bahia, Brasil)/The Sustainability of Urban Heritage Preservation objetiva apresentar, de forma sucinta, o processo de implantação do Plano de Recuperação do Centro Histórico de Salvador (PRCHS) e avaliar a sustentabilidade de física-espacial, social...

This content of this report, Operating Guidelines for Implementation of the Indigenous Peoples Policy (OP-765), instructs IDB Bank staff on how to apply the Indigenous Peoples Development Strategy (GN-2387-5). The Guidelines contain procedures for implementing the IPP, strategic measures for...