Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List (1994)

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2. Adopted by the World Heritage Committee in 1994 in explicit acknowledgement that the List was skewed — towards Europe and North America, towards monumental architecture over living and vernacular culture, and towards cultural over natural properties. Its aim was to broaden the range of what could qualify as heritage and to help under-represented States Parties nominate. Its results are contested: peer-reviewed analysis concludes the imbalance did not measurably decrease and may have widened, and that the persistence of the skew is itself a credibility problem for the Convention. The Strategy is the honest institutional admission that the List reflects the geography of capacity and diplomacy, not the geography of heritage.
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4. The Tentative List and the nomination dossier
5. Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List (1994)
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7. World Heritage Committee
8. The Tentative List and the nomination dossier
9. The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List
10. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
11. Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List (1994)
12. The first properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List
13. The Committee adopts the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List
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15. 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.