Part I: Performance of national preservation organization -- Chapter 1. The Brazilian experience of the World Heritage Sites -- Chapter 2. Preservation actors: challenges and risks of managing World heritage cities -- Chapter 3. Current challenges and risks for preservation of the historic center of Salvador -- Chapter 4. World Heritage in Brazil: a reflection and criticism -- Chapter 5. When sensitive memories sites become heritage: the case of the Valongo Wharf, Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 6. Afro-Brazilian religions and protected urban areas: the cases of Laranjeiras and Sao Cristovao, Sergipe -- Chapter 7. The Pampulha Modern Ensemble and its recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site -- Chapter 8. Reflections on tourism in Jesuitic-Garani Missions -- Part II: International experiences in preserving the world heritage -- Chapter 9. "Which Egypt will answer"? Some genealogical notes on world heritage -- Chapter 10. The experience of managing the city of Porto as a world heritage site: how to teach and how to learn? -- Chapter 11. World heritage sites in Latin America: conservation and management under a value-based approach -- Chapter 12. Immaterial heritage and the risk of forgetting: the case of the hidden Nagazaki Christians -- Chapter 13. Environmental History and Cultural Landscape in Israel (2003-2020) -- Part III: World heritage risks and threats -- Chapter 14. Brazil in the circuit of international cultural relations: return and devolution of ethnographic goods -- Chapter 15. World Heritage in danger: case studies about some of the factors that threaten cultural sites -- Chapter 16. The risk of fire in the twin buildings of the Ouro Preto historic center: world heritage -- Chapter 17. PlunderersofDevotionalHeritage
This book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservationist practices to the risks and alerts that run its maintenance in the face of so many challenges in the contemporary world. The book has encouraged scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to research on the management and risks of Brazil's world heritage. It is a bold initiative that brings together contemporary studies on management, alerts and risks of the Brazilian world heritage and some international examples. It stands out not only for its interdisciplinary approach, but above all for compiling a wide range of approaches that analyze various dimensions of world heritage management. Unique experience in the management of world heritage allocated to Brazilian territory, this book was written by prominent academics and heritage management professionals and includes national and international case studies. It is a comprehensive academic book in Brazilian world heritage management literature and can therefore be used as an authoritative reference source as well as a significant teaching tool
