Patrimony Assessment and Sustainable Land Resource Management (Second Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

The human-induced factors have generated negative impacts on the environment, such as climate changes, alteration of energy flows, and land cover and use changes. The three leading causes of environmental degradation act separately and together, resulting in irreversible changes. Moreover, the natural disasters can generate negative impacts on nature and on the built environment. Heritage sites are even more exposed to these pressures. Often, heritage sites contain a rich biodiversity, but also important cultural assets, and their distinct character is the result of the two. In order to preserve the heritage sites, it is important not only to address biodiversity and cultural issues separately, but also their traditional interaction. 

Heritage assets are of great cultural, ecological, social, and economic value to society, and their preservation from the ongoing pressures of natural hazards and human-induced factors should be conceived in a sustainable way, focusing on the future generations and on a sustainable use of natural and cultural resources.

Planning could be crucial to the process in all aspects, including strategic, environmental, or spatial planning, but these sides are intrinsically related to administrative, legal, and regulatory aspects, which are crucial in determining whether planning can be successful in preserving and highlighting the multiple values of heritage.

This Special Issue aims to separately or jointly address all the elements of the nexus described above in order to investigate the contribution of heritage assessment to sustainable land resource management using theoretical and practical research.

Possible topics include the techniques used to assess the heritage (natural, cultural, or both); strategies for its sustainable preservation; the planning of heritage sites; relationships between Nature and culture in heritage sites; resource management in heritage sites; regulatory, administrative, and legal issues related to the preservation of natural and cultural heritage; evaluation of adaptive reuse of cultural heritage; heritage education as a tool for promotion of heritage sustainability; and many other related topics, bridging the approaches of human and environmental geography.

We equally welcome case studies, good practice examples, comparative studies, as well as theoretical and practical research.

Dr. Florentina-Cristina Merciu
Dr. Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor
Dr. Maciej J. Nowak
Guest Editors

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• qualitative and quantitative assessment of cultural heritage
• natural heritage assessment
• biodiversity and its conservation
• management of natural and cultural resources
• heritage communities
• heritage education versus promotion of heritage sustainability
• circular architecture versus cultural heritage sustainability
• administrative, regulatory, and legal issues related to the conservation of heritage

• Patrimony Assessment and Sustainable Land Resource Management in Land (13 articles)