Values in Heritage Management

Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based methods have come to influence conservation, takes stock of emerging approaches to values in heritage practice and policy, identifies common challenges and related spheres of knowledge, and proposes specific areas in which the development of new approaches and future research may help advance the field.

Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. Bringing together leading conservation scholars and professionals from around the world, this volume offers a timely look at values-based approaches to heritage management.
"A good resource for new researchers and practitioners. . . . The book acts as a link from heritage management to the broader social sciences finishing with the economic aspects of heritage policy."
--Robert M. O'Halloran, Journal of Heritage Tourism

"Featuring distinguished authors steeped in the theory and practice of heritage conservation, this book effectively captures the 21st century shift in notions of heritage value. A timely discussion of theoretical frameworks and practical approaches to values-based decision-making, this Getty publication will appeal to scholars and heritage professionals as well as to students, policy makers and local authorities in search of guidance for understanding and managing significant places in their communities."
--Christina Cameron, Université de Montréal