The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List

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1. Story
2. Twenty-two years after the Convention, the Committee formally acknowledged that its own List was lopsided — geographically towards Europe and North America, thematically towards monumental architecture, and categorically towards cultural rather than natural properties. The Global Strategy was the corrective: broaden what counts as heritage, and build nomination capacity where it is missing. Subsequent scholarly review finds the imbalance did not measurably shrink.
3. Knowledge
4. World Heritage Committee
5. The Tentative List and the nomination dossier
6. Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List (1994)
7. The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List
8. Connections
9. Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List (1994)
10. World Heritage Committee
11. The Tentative List and the nomination dossier
12. World Heritage Committee
13. The Tentative List and the nomination dossier
14. The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List
15. Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List (1994)
16. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
17. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
18. ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
19. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
20. The first properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List
21. Angkor inscribed on the World Heritage List and the danger list on the same day
22. The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List
23. The cultural and natural criteria are merged into a single set of ten
24. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary deleted — the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List
25. Dresden Elbe Valley deleted — the second removal, by a vote of 14 to 5
26. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City deleted — the third and most recent removal
27. The Committee declines, again, to place Venice on the danger list
28. Stonehenge
29. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
30. Chartres Cathedral
31. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
32. Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List (1994)
33. The first properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List
34. The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List
35. Evidence
36. The regional imbalance in the World Heritage List did not decrease following the 1994 Global Strategy and may have increased; Europe and North America remain home to close to half of all World Heritage sites, and as of 2004 some 55 per cent of cultural and mixed properties. The authors argue the persistent over-representation undermines the credibility of the List. ALSO: Reviews the first decade of the Global Strategy adopted by the World Heritage Committee in 1994, whose objectives were to balance cultural against natural properties, to broaden representation across regions and levels of development, and to widen the thematic definition of heritage beyond monumental architecture.