World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate

United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization

World Heritage and Tourism

in a Changing Climate

UNEP and UNESCO promote environmentally sound practices globally and in their own activities. This report is printed on paper from sustainable forests including recycled fibre. The paper is chlorine free, and the inks vegetable-based. Our distribution policy aims to reduce UNEP's and UNESCO's carbon

footprints.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization

World Heritage and Tourism

in a Changing Climate

World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate

Published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya; the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France; and the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA, USA.

United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, PO BOX 30552, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya

United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 7, place de Fontenoy 75352 Paris 07 SP, France

Union of Concerned Scientists, Two Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA 02138-3780, USA

? UNESCO and UNEP, 2016

ISBN UNEP: 978-92-807-3573-4 ISBN UNESCO: 978-92-3-100152-9

This publication was made possible with financial support of the Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France.

the users accept to be bound by the terms of use of the UNESCO Open Access Repository (. open-access/terms-use-ccbysa-en).

The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNESCO and UNEP concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

The Authors are responsible for the choice and presentation of the facts contained in this book and for the opinions expressed therein, which are not necessarily the views or stated policy of UNESCO and/or UNEP and do not commit the Organizations.

This publication may be reproduced in whole or in part and in any form for educational or nonprofit purposes without special permission from the copyright holder, provided acknowledgement of the source is made and any extracts are provided in their proper contexts. UNESCO and UNEP would appreciate receiving a copy of any publication that uses this publication as a source.

No use of this publication may be made for resale or for any other commercial purpose whatsoever without prior permission in writing from UNESCO and UNEP.

This publication is available in Open Access under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence (). By using the content of this publication,

The images licensed from Dreamstime, Orkney Media Group, Shutterstock and Travel Images in this publication (see photo credits on page 3) do not fall under the above-mentioned CC-BY-SA licence and

may not be used or reproduced without the prior permission of the copyright holders.

Suggested citation: Markham, A., Osipova, E., Lafrenz Samuels, K. and Caldas, A. 2016. World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, France.

Cover picture: A hooded beach chair facing the Wadden Sea, a protected area for migratory birds inscribed on the World Heritage List ? Karen Kaspar / .

Online publication: document/139944

Printed by: UNESCO

Photographs: The following photographs are available for use under the Open Access Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO) license ( by-sa/3.0/igo/): page 9 ? OUR PLACE The World Heritage Collection; 10 ? UNESCO / Francesco Bandarin; 11 ? UNESCO / Lodovico Folin-Calabi; 15 ? UNESCO / Roland Lin; 16 ? UNESCO / Francesco Bandarin; 25 ? OUR PLACE The World Heritage Collection; 31 ? Patrick Venenoso; 33 ? Claudio Margottini; 34?35, 36 ? UNESCO / Ron Van Oers; 37 ? OUR PLACE The World Heritage Collection; 40 ? UNESCO / Lazare Eloundou Assomo; 41 ? OUR PLACE The World Heritage Collection; 42 ? Tim Schnarr; 44 ? Federica Leone; 46 ? Vincent Ko Hon Chiu; 47 (left) ? Aneta Ribarska; 48 (left) ? OUR

PLACE The World Heritage Collection; 48 (right) ? UNESCO / Francesco Bandarin; 50 (left) ? Patrick Venenoso; 51, 52 ? OUR PLACE The World Heritage Collection; 58 ? Vincent Ko Hon Chiu; 59, 60, 62 ? OUR PLACE The World Heritage Collection; 63 ? David Geldhof; 68 ? Martin (necktru); 71 ? Vincent Ko Hon Chiu; 76 ? OUR PLACE The World Heritage Collection; 80?81 ? Jan van de Kam; 83 ? Casper Tybjerg; 84, 85 ? UNESCO / Junaid Sorosh-Wali; 86 ? Aneta Ribarska.

The following photographs are reproduced under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license: page 19 ? derekkeats; 45 ? Bildtankstelle. de; 66 (left) ? David Adam Kess; 66 (right) ? D. Gordon E. Robertson; 70 ? Jeroen Kransen Flickr; 75 ? Kim Hansen.

The image on page 49 was taken from NASA's Earth Observatory, ? NASA.

The following photographs may only be reproduced with the prior permission of the copyright holders: page 20 ? Jorg Hackemann | ; 21 ? Arseniy Rogov | ; 38 ? Neil Bradfield | ; 47 (right) ? Feathercollector | ; 50 (right) ? V. Sidoropolev / ; 54 ? Dennis Donohue | ; 55 ? Adam Markham; 56 ? Tanaonte | Dreamstime. com; 61 ? Rafal Cichawa | ; 64?65 ? Metropoway893 | ; 67 ? Pablo Hidalgo | ; ? 72?73 Liviovillani | ; 74 ? Checco | ; 77 ? Orkney Media Group; 78 Adam Stanford ? AerialCam Ltd; 82 ? Wim Schooorlemmer / PRW; 87 ? Neil Harrison | .

 ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download