India's economic development is evident in its industrial growth, extensive transportation network, and rapidly expanding cities, towns and villages. While this growth has numerous positive aspects, ...it also has the potential to cause irrevocable damage (directly or indirectly) to rich archaeological heritage of the country. The present study makes three contributions. First, it examines several archaeological sites where economic developmental activities have caused significant damage. Second, it demonstrates how the risk of further damage can be minimized using geospatial solutions to protect and manage such sites. Third, it conceptualizes a framework for incorporating spatial and non-spatial knowledge of archaeological sites into a National Archaeological Database. We propose that this national archive should be made publicly accessible under the Digital India programme, where it can assist decision makers (development authorities, state departments, etc.) and help citizens plan for future economic growth while preserving the fragile remnants of our past.
El Paisaje Natural y Cultural, como sostenedor de identidad de las diversas comunidades de nuestro país, ha despertado la inquietud por parte de sus propios habitantes durante los últimos 10 años.
In some international organizations and in many countries there have been obvious problems such as an unclear goal, ambiguous concepts, lack of theoretical framework and overlapping extensions in the ...classification of heritage, particularly in the classification of cultural heritage, and newly proposed typological classifications have even worsened the existing contradictions. This phenomenon shows that the science of heritage studies did not pay attention to its own theoretical framework and failed to build its methodology, bringing about much confusion in research, application and management of the heritages themselves. It is therefore necessary to re-categorize heritages according to their nature and functions, protection methods, management and exhibition requirements dictated by their different nature. In this paper, taking the authoritative “Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage” as example, we analyze the classification issues currently prevailing in heritage circles, state four principles which heritage classification should follow and put forward preliminary thoughts for the classification of heritages. At the same time, by an analysis of currently popular classifications, such as “cultural landscape”, we put forward new definitions of World Heritage categories, and the position it is proposed they take in the overall classification system.
Se evidencia la necesidad que existe en Medellín, y posiblemente en Colombia, de sumar a las expresiones culturales, específicamente para este caso los bustos de la Avenida La Playa, el contenido ...histórico que avala el sentido social, político y cultural de los mismos. Pero en sí el principal motivo es generar en la conciencia de los habitantes del territorio en que se encuentran dichas obras, un sentido de pertenencia sobre Patrimonio Cultural y la importancia de su conservación como legado de un país que vela por resaltar los valores culturales y la diversidad étnica. El eje de este texto, es el componente legal de la investigación, que pretende sentar las bases legislativas que den pie a una resolución de carácter municipal, por medio de la Secretaría de Educación de Medellín y de la Secretaría de Educación de Antioquia, para regular nuevamente la Ley General de Educación 115 y el Decreto 1860, no solo en la carga académica, sino en el pénsum mismo, para convertir en obligatorio el resurgimiento de la asignatura de historia nacional, construyendo memoria colectiva y sentido de pertenencia en las nuevas generaciones.
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