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"The Heritage Health Index, the first comprehensive survey ever to assess the condition and preservation needs of U.S. collections, concludes that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of millions of irreplaceable artifacts. These findings were announced at a news conference in New York City on December 6 and are detailed in A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s Collections. "
Creator(s): Heritage Preservation - The National Institute for Conservation | Date Published: 2005-12
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"The target has been to bring home a research and technological development (RTD) roadmap that outlines what may be expected in a future digital heritage space."
Creator(s): Guntram Geser and John Pereira (eds.) - DigiCult | Date Published: 2004-12
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"The Helsinki Agenda recognizes Finland’s pioneering role in media culture and arts, and in creating open access tools and accessible mobile communication technologies (software, technology and interfaces between information technology and culture)."
Creator(s): IFACCA and the Arts Council of Finland | Date Published: 2004-08-24
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"The research was conducted by a team of staff and contractors in the Canadian Community Economic Development Network from February to June 2004. A review of existing research and literature was carried out on the nature and typology of the social economy and its relationship to new media."
Creator(s): Rupert Downing, Canadian Community Economic Development Network | Date Published: 2004-08
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"We are pleased to provide the proceedings of the Conference of New Media Research Networks, held in Charlottetown, PE March 26 - 27, 2004."
Creator(s): Arts-Netlantic | Date Published: 2004-03-26
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"This paper is more in the nature of a series of reflections/questions concerning the developing issues & challenges, particularly from a policy perspective, in the ‘developed’ or ‘industrially advanced’ societies of Western Europe (WE) on the one hand and the immigrant-receiving ones of North America, Australia and New Zealand (NAANZ) on the other."
Creator(s): Dhiru Patel, Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2002-11-21
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"Three years ago, the Department of Canadian Heritage and Parks Canada began a wide-ranging series of consultations on the best means to preserve and celebrate Canada's historic places."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2002
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"Cultural preservation, like the conservation of our natural resources, depends upon political leadership, the resources of civil society, and the popular will."
Creator(s): Keith Donohue | Date Published: 2001-10
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"Popular interest in preservation is evident every day. It is seen in communities rallying around local historic sites, libraries, and museums campaigning to conserve their collections, volunteers surveying outdoor sculpture, and audiences appreciating traditional practices."
Creator(s): Center for Arts and Culture | Date Published: 2001-10
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"This study of heritage institutions in Canada provides a national profile of the sector, estimates the economic impact of the sector and goes beyond this traditional analysis to examine the socio-economic benefits of these institutions."
Creator(s): The Outspan Group Inc. | Date Published: 2001
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"The evolution of how heritage is understood and used in European societies is part of a wider change in the concept of culture itself...culture is no longer viewed exclusively as a natural and objective good. It has become enlarged, complex and contested..."
Creator(s): François Matarasso, King Baudouin Foundation | Date Published: 2005-10
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"Europa Nostra position paper to the European Union institutions."
Creator(s): Europa Nostra | Date Published: 2005-06
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« Ce guide pratique de tourisme patrimonial est une invitation au voyage dans la francophonie ontarienne et canadienne, une invitation à explorer, à apprécier, à sauvegarder et à mettre en valeur différents aspects de nos villes et villages, des paysages de notre région, de nos réseaux d’affaires, de sociabilité et de solidarité, de nos ressources, de nos souvenirs et de nos projets. »
Creator(s): Paule Doucet, Regroupement des organismes du patrimoine franco-ontarien | Date Published: 2005-04-27
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"Heritage tourism can be defined as being based upon the social and physical structures of the past and present. Heritage tourism, also called cultural or historical tourism, focuses on the cultural landscapes of the past and present that were shaped by human actions."
Creator(s): Office of the Governor Economic Development & Tourism (Texas) | Date Published: 2004-03
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"Unlike conventional tourism, heritage tourism features historical sights and other cultural attractions that help people learn about our Nation’s past. If properly planned and managed, land, buildings, and other resources that have historic or cultural significance or that are located near historically or culturally significant sites – may provide landowners with new income opportunities."
Creator(s): United States Department of Agriculture | Date Published: 2004
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"As the first legislated example of conservation biology in action, the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (M-KMA) offers a valuable new model for conservation planning and design."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"The Pacific Estuary Conservation Program (PECP) is a partnership of government and non-government agencies that seeks to protect estuarine habitat along the coast of British Columbia through land acquisitions, preservation of Crown lands and the development and promotion of land stewardship techniques."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"Vuntut National Park and surrounding special management area protect the ecological integrity and cultural heritage of a vast area in northern Yukon."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"For many, the Yukon Territory represents one of the last refuges of wilderness. The Yukon Protected Areas Strategy (YPAS) aims to develop a complete network of protected areas in the territory based on ecosystem management, conservation biology, sustainable economies and heritage values."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"Cultural tourism represents an area of significant economic benefit to museums and heritage sites. Challenging economic times in particular require cultural and heritage facilities to explore ways and means to increase attendance and self-generated revenues and to control operating expenses."
Creator(s): Ted Silberberg, CMC | Date Published: 2003
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"Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island has been the scene of heated clashes between environmental interests and forest companies. Sources of conflict include protection of ecosystems, visual aesthetics, tourism and large-scale industrial forestry."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"The Ontario government started the Lands for Life (L4L) process to respond to public demand for integrated land use planning and wilderness protection. In phase one, regional round tables developed land use plans for almost half of Ontario's Crown land."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"Thanks in part to the Mining Sector Consultation, Manitoba is Canada's leading jurisdiction in achieving protected area goals. Under this consultation, mining, government and conservation interests work together to identify which lands should be protected from mining and other ecologically harmful activities."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2003
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"For modern citizens of Bangladesh, the world's most densely populated country, cultural heritage is not a luxury but a touchstone of identity that has helped to forge a nation from a half-century of conflict."
Creator(s): Monica L. Smith | Date Published: 2002-12
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"Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Report of Proceedings. In conjunction with its regular quarterly meeting, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) hosted a summit meeting of Federal agencies on November 14, 2002, to discuss cultural heritage tourism."
Creator(s): Advisory Council on Historic Preservation | Date Published: 2002-11-14
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"The seminar about the cultural tourism route between Finnish and Russian castles and fortresses started on the first day of the Third Finnish Russian Cultural Forum in Lappeenranta, Finland, on Wednesday, 9.10.2002, with a visit to the Fortress of Lappeenranta."
Creator(s): Karoliina Lehtonen, Ministry of Education of Finland | Date Published: 2002-10-09
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"The Eastern Scotian Shelf Integrated Management (ESSIM) project is one of the first integrated management initiatives launched under the 1997 Oceans Act. It is a regionally driven, collaborative planning process for addressing conservation, multiple use and sustainable development of the ocean environment."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2002
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"What is heritage tourism? The National Trust for Historic Preservation defines heritage tourism as “traveling to experience the places, artifacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past and present.”
Creator(s): Cheryl M. Hargrove | Date Published: 2002
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"This is the third report on the research on values and economics of cultural heritage which was started at the Getty Conservation Institute in 1995. The early results of this project highlighted some issues fundamental to the field that were in need of further consideration. Among these were the lack of recognized and widely accepted methodologies for the assessment of cultural values, as well as the difficulties of comparing the results of economic and cultural values assessments."
Creator(s): The Getty Conservation Institute | Date Published: 2002
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"In the confusion and frustration currently surrounding tourism, especially ecotourism, here is a story of promise and hope. The Banff Heritage Tourism Strategy (HTS) a community-based tourism initiative that has tremendous potential to help overcome the destruction caused by too many people in a fragile place."
Creator(s): Holly Quan | Date Published: 2001-12
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"The report outlines key challenges and opportunities for conservation, and presents a set of recommendations that, if applied, will position Canada as a global leader in conservation by 2010."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2001
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"The international tourism agenda of the 1990s advances some profound challenges to all actors involved in the tourism sector. Consumers of tourism in the 1990s are demanding greater quality in the tourism product. They want greater variety and more flexibility in their travels."
Creator(s): Inter-American Travel Congresses Permanent Secretariat | Date Published: 1997-01-31
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