The world heritage list
Subtitle: what is OUV? : defining the outstanding universal value of cultural world heritage properties : an ICOMOS study
By: compiled by Jukka Jokilehto ; with contributions from Christina Cameron, Michael Parent and Michael Petzet
Contributors: International Council on Monuments and Sites
Series: Monuments and sites -- 16; Monuments and sites -- new ser., 16.
Publisher: Hendrik Bässler Verlag; ICOMOS, International Council on Monuments and Sites
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin; Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9783930388516
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: World Heritage areas; Evaluation; Historic sites; Monuments; Cultural property; Protection; World Heritage Committee
Other titles: What is OUV? :
Description: Following on from and completing the volume Monuments and Sites XII "The World Heritage List, Filling the Gaps: an Action Plan for the Future", published in 2005, this new volume takes a comprehensive look back at the work done among other by ICOMOS since 1976 as an advisory body to the World Heritage Committee in relation to the criteria for the outstanding universal value (OUV) required by the Convention as a precondition for the inscription on the World Heritage List. It contains chapters on: the development of the OUV concept; characteristics of the OUV criteria i.) - vii.) and their justification; different aspects of using the criteria; other requirements for inscription; reasons for non-inscription; as well as conclusions and recommendations and a series of annexes, some  of which represent previously unpublished material.
Notes: At head of title: International Council on Monuments and Sites.