Impact Assessment for World Heritage I: What are the Main Thing You Need to Know
WHITRAP Shanghai and ICCROM together have organized training course on Impact Assessment for World Heritage (IAWH) since 2012. Because of the pandemic, ICCROM held the webinar to introduce the basic contents of IAWH. Encouraged by ICCROM, WHITRAP Shanghai translated the video into Chinese. WHITRAP Shanghai expects to promote the IAWH tool to a broader audience.
Impact assessment is an approach and methodology that can promote better evidence-based decision-making in advance of planning for change at or near World Heritage properties. Impact Assessment can also give us a chance to harness sustainable development agenda and opportunities if used properly. The principles can actually be applied to the wider heritage in general, and it can be used in various different circumstances of either as a standalone process or sitting within a broader assessment process involving Environmental Impact Assessments or Strategic Environmental Assessments.
Three experts were invited: Ms Sarah Court, who currently works with ICCROM as the focal point on Impact Assessment; Ms Mizuki Murai, World Heritage Conservation Officer at the World Heritage Program Unit of IUCN; and Mr Richard Mackay, ICOMOS focal point on World Heritage Impact Assessment. The moderator was Eugene Jo, the Program Manager for the World Heritage Leadership Program here at ICCROM.
This first part introduced “what are the main things you need to know”, held on July 16, 2020. It covered the basic aspects of what constitutes an Impact Assessment and how it relates to the conservation and protection of World Heritage sites. This session discussed the principles and core facts that you need to be aware of when conducting Impact Assessments. It was emphasized that it is important to understand what the premise of this work is, and to be able to grasp the fundamental principles that is highlighted throughout the entire guidance document.
Impact assessment is an approach and methodology that can promote better evidence-based decision-making in advance of planning for change at or near World Heritage properties. Impact Assessment can also give us a chance to harness sustainable development agenda and opportunities if used properly. The principles can actually be applied to the wider heritage in general, and it can be used in various different circumstances of either as a standalone process or sitting within a broader assessment process involving Environmental Impact Assessments or Strategic Environmental Assessments.
Three experts were invited: Ms Sarah Court, who currently works with ICCROM as the focal point on Impact Assessment; Ms Mizuki Murai, World Heritage Conservation Officer at the World Heritage Program Unit of IUCN; and Mr Richard Mackay, ICOMOS focal point on World Heritage Impact Assessment. The moderator was Eugene Jo, the Program Manager for the World Heritage Leadership Program here at ICCROM.
This first part introduced “what are the main things you need to know”, held on July 16, 2020. It covered the basic aspects of what constitutes an Impact Assessment and how it relates to the conservation and protection of World Heritage sites. This session discussed the principles and core facts that you need to be aware of when conducting Impact Assessments. It was emphasized that it is important to understand what the premise of this work is, and to be able to grasp the fundamental principles that is highlighted throughout the entire guidance document.