13394 - Heritage Management and Management Plans (Online) Modulübersicht

Module Number: 13394
Module Title:Heritage Management and Management Plans (Online)
  Erbe - Management und Management - Pläne (Online)
Department: Faculty 6 - Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning
Responsible Staff Member:
  • Dr. phil. Rudolff, Britta
Language of Teaching / Examination:English
Duration:1 semester
Frequency of Offer: Every winter semester
Credits: 6
Learning Outcome:Rationale:
Successful management is the basis for the sustainable use and preservation of World Heritage Sites. This module provides students with the necessary tools to develop strategic management frameworks and management plans for World Heritage Sites as well as other places of cultural and/or natural significance.

Part 1: Lecture/Seminar: Introduction to World Heritage Management
The first part of this module provides a basic introduction to strategies in heritage management and familiarizes students with key terms and processes for the management of both cultural and natural heritage sites. The module aims to enable students to competently participate in professional debates on management planning and understand the necessary requirements of World Heritage Site Management. It further introduces the latest developments in international guidelines and recommendations for heritage management processes.

Part 2: Lecture/Seminar: World Heritage Management Plans
This second component introduces to strategic and project management processes in Management planning for World Heritage sites and outlines the requirements for World Heritage Management Plans. It also gives students the opportunity to consider heritage management for specific case studies and reflect on the steps necessary for the preparation and implementation of management strategies and actions. Students will be enabled to understand and analyze decision-making processes required to arrive at strategic management objectives and action plans for specific heritage sites and review existing management plans to evaluate their capacity to guide successful site management.
Contents:Part 1: Lecture/Seminar: Introduction to World Heritage Management
In two separate segments this first part of the modules introduces to basic terminologies in the management of cultural and natural World Heritage sites.
  • Natural Heritage Management: The introduction to natural heritage management is focused on basic requirements in the management of World Heritage Sites, planning processes, financial and human resources, sustainable use and benefit sharing, tourism management, as well as monitoring and reporting procedures.
  • Cultural Heritage management: The cultural heritage component considers planning and management processes for cultural heritage sites including development planning in urban and land-use schemes, conservation management, participatory decision-making, visitor management, risk prepared as well as monitoring and reporting.
Part 2: Lecture/Seminar: World Heritage Management Plans
The second is focused providing a theoretical overview of the different steps and components required to draft management planning tools for World Heritage Sites. Based on strategic management frameworks, concepts of vision, mission, objectives, strategies, policies and action plans are introduced and developed for World Heritage Management planning. Successively, the course will consider the potentials of different approaches to successful site management based on outlines and formats suggested in the available reading materials as well as an analysis of different existing management plans. Specific emphasis is also given to development of monitoring indicators to enable quality assessments for site management factors and management plan implementation.
Recommended Prerequisites:None
Mandatory Prerequisites:None
Forms of Teaching and Proportion:
  • Lecture / 3 Hours per Week per Semester
  • Seminar / 1 Hours per Week per Semester
  • Self organised studies / 120 Hours
Teaching Materials and Literature:
  • UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Managing Historic Cites, in World Heritage Papers, vol. 27, 2010, Paris: UNESCO. 
  • UNESCO World Heritage Centre, United Nations Foundation and IUCN: Enhancing our Heritage Toolkit: Assessing management effectiveness of natural World Heritage sites, 2008, Paris: UNESCO. 
  • ICOMOS: Guidance on Heritage Impact Assessments for Cultural World Heritage Properties, 2011, Paris: ICOMOS 
  • UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN: Preparing World Heritage Nominations, World Heritage Resource Manual, 2011, Paris: UNESCO. 
  • UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN: Managing Natural World Heritage, World Heritage Resource Manual, 2012, Paris: UNESCO. 
  • Kirpati, T.H.: Management of World Heritage Sites. The Management Plan as an effective tool for the safeguarding of heritage, Saarbrücken, 2008, VDM Verlag. 
  • Ringbeck, Birgitta: management Plans for World Heritage Sites. A practical guide, 2008, Bonn: German UNESCO Commission. 
  • Henry Cleere: Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World, 2005, New York: Taylor and Francis 
  • Leask, Anna and Alan Fyall: Managing World Heritage Sites, 2006, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. 
  • Shackley, Mira: Visitor Management: Case studies from World Heritage Sites, 2003, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. 
  • Tourtellot, Jonathan: “Part threat, part hope: the challenge of tourism” in: World Heritage Review No. 58, p. 8-19, Feb. 2011, Paris: UNESCO Publishing. 
  • Dudley, Nigel: Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories, 2008, Gland: IUCN. 
  • UNESCO, Shell Foundation: Business Planning for Natural World Heritage Sites: A Toolkit, 2008, Paris: UNESCO 
  • Mitchell, Nora; Rössler, Mechtild and Pierre-Marie Tricaud: World Heritage Cultural Landscapes: a handbook for conservation and management. World Heritage Papers Series No. 26, 2009, Paris: UNESCO. 
  • Hockings, Marc, Stolton, Sue and Fiona Leverington et al.: Evaluating Effectiveness: A framework for Assessing Management Effectiveness of Protected Areas, 2006, Gland: IUCN.
Module Examination:Continuous Assessment (MCA)
Assessment Mode for Module Examination:
  • Oral group examination, 45 minutes (50%)
  • Open book examination, 90 minutes (50%)
Evaluation of Module Examination:Performance Verification – graded
Limited Number of Participants:None
Part of the Study Programme:
  • Abschluss im Ausland / Städtebau und Stadtplanung / keine PO
  • Abschluss im Ausland / Stadtplanung / keine PO
  • Abschluss im Ausland / World Heritage Studies / keine PO
  • Master (research-oriented) - Distance Learning / World Heritage Studies / PO 2021
Remarks:This module will be offered entirely online.
More information and regular updates will be posted in the module entry on Moodl.
Module Components:
  • Lecture/Seminar Heritage Management Plans
  • Lecture/Seminar International Standards in Heritage Management
  • Examination Heritage Management and Management Plans
Components to be offered in the Current Semester:
  • no assignment