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Underwater Cultural Heritage

Author : Elena Perez-Alvaro

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 21,73 MB

Release : 2019-05-07

Category : History

ISBN : 0429885784

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Underwater Cultural Heritage investigates cases of underwater cultural heritage, exploring ethical issues that have never been studied before. A vast cultural heritage lies beneath the sea, including the archaeological remains of more than three million vessels, as well as historic monuments and whole cities. In addition, climate change, population growth and current events around the world mean that new underwater cultural heritage is being created faster than ever before. It is, therefore, essential that the ethical issues related to the management of such heritage are considered now, especially as decisions made now will bestow the heritage with a value and will establish legal frameworks that could be used either to protect or harm underwater heritage in the future. Considering a range of challenges related to underwater cultural heritage - including preservation, management, use, sustainability, valuation, politics, identity, human rights, and intangible heritage - the book presents case studies that both illustrate the key ethical issues and also offer possible solutions to help navigate such challenges. The book will also explore the various legislative instruments protecting underwater cultural heritage and emphasise the importance of revising and updating legal frameworks, whilst also taking into account ethical concerns that may expose cultural heritage to more serious menaces. Underwater Cultural Heritage draws on case studies from around the globe and, as such, should be of great interest to academics, researchers and students working in heritage studies, archaeology, history, politics and sustainability. It should also be appealing to heritage practitioners and policymakers who want to learn more about the issues surrounding not only management of underwater cultural heritage but management of cultural heritage in general.



Underwater Cultural Heritage and International Law

Author : Sarah Dromgoole

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 439 pages

File Size : 32,89 MB

Release : 2013-07-25

Category : History

ISBN : 052184231X

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Book Description

The first full-scale study of the international legal framework governing underwater cultural heritage to be published in nearly two decades.



The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

Author : Sarah Dromgoole

Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Page : 255 pages

File Size : 34,41 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Law

ISBN : 9004152733

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This volume comprises a collection of sixteen national perspectives on law, policy and practice in respect of the underwater cultural heritage, written in light of the UNESCO Convention 2001. The essays provide an up-to-date account of the current legal position in each jurisdiction, as well as considering the impact that the 2001 Convention is having, and is likely to have in the future. As well as being internationally recognised experts in the field, all the contributors have specialist knowledge and practical experience of their own particular jurisdictions.



The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

Author : Anastasia Stratē

Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Page : 518 pages

File Size : 19,46 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Law

ISBN : 9780792330523

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The marine environment is almost ideal for the preservation of artefacts and, until relatively recently, it also provided complete protection from destruction by man. However, the aqualung has made most shallow underwater sites accessible, leading to widespread plundering. Current deep-sea bed technology now threatens deep water sites. There is a need for immediate international action to preserve the man-made environment, alongside the natural one. The enunciation of legal rules to protect the underwater cultural heritage is a complex issue, involving a matrix of interests and laws, both international and national.





The Oxford Handbook of International Cultural Heritage Law

Author : Francesco Francioni

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 1088 pages

File Size : 18,6 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Cultural property

ISBN : 9780191892295

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Book Description

This handbook provides a cutting edge study of international cultural heritage law, taking stock of the recent developments, core concepts, andcurrent challenges. --Résumé de l'éditeur.



The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

Author : Roberta Garabello

Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 18,26 MB

Release : 2003-01-01

Category : Law

ISBN : 9789041122032

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The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage represents a major step forward in the field of international law. New archaeological rules as well as a comprehensive co-operation system among the States concerned are set up by the new Convention. Despite the negative attitude assumed by few States at the moment of voting for the text of the Convention, this new international instrument is welcome by the great majority of States. This volume focuses on the main aspects of the Convention. It is divided in two parts, to describe the situation before and after the adoption (and the forthcoming into force) of the Convention. In the first part the contradictions resulting from the regime established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are analysed together with the undesirable results of the application of the rules of admiralty (law of salvage and law of finds) to the underwater cultural heritage. In the second part the negotiation process is described, both in its general aspects (the myths surrounding the draft) and in its specific results (the drafting of each single provision).



Art and Cultural Heritage

Author : Barbara T. Hoffman

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 608 pages

File Size : 22,80 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Law

ISBN : 9780521857642

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Art and Cultural Heritage is appropriately, but not solely, about national and international law respecting cultural heritage. It is a bubbling cauldron of law mixed with ethics, philosophy, politics and working principles looking at how cultural heritage law, policy and practice should be sculpted from the past as the present becomes the future. Art and cultural heritage are two pillars on which a society builds its identity, its values, its sense of community and the individual. The authors explore these demanding concerns, untangle basic values, and look critically at the conflicts and contradictions in existing art and cultural heritage law and policy in its diverse sectors. The rich and provocative contributions collectively provide a reasoned discussion of the issues from a multiplicity of views to permit the reader to understand the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the cultural heritage debate.



Underwater Cultural Heritage and International Law

Author : Sarah Dromgoole

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 439 pages

File Size : 22,93 MB

Release : 2013-07-25

Category : Law

ISBN : 1107292190

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The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001, which entered into force internationally in 2009, is designed to deal with threats to underwater cultural heritage arising as a result of advances in deep-water technology. However, the relationship between this new treaty and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea is deeply controversial. This study of the international legal framework regulating human interference with underwater cultural heritage explores the development and present status of the framework and gives some consideration to how it may evolve in the future. The central themes are the issues that provided the UNESCO negotiators with their greatest challenges: the question of ownership rights in sunken vessels and cargoes; sovereign immunity and sunken warships; the application of salvage law; the ethics of commercial exploitation; and, most crucially, the question of jurisdictional competence to regulate activities beyond territorial sea limits.



Unresolved Issues And New Challenges to the Law of the Sea

Author : Anastasia Stratē

Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Page : 371 pages

File Size : 17,7 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Law

ISBN : 9004151915

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This work analyzes the management of shared fish stocks; protection of the underwater cultural heritage; the possibilities of establishing marine protected areas and other means for safeguarding vulnerable marine ecosystems; the use of the high seas for intelligence as well as recent developments on interdiction of vessels on the high seas. Special emphasis is paid to the role of international courts and tribunals in the progressive development of the law of the sea as well as the ability of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to accommodate new uses and challenges, such as new concerns, new technological possibilities, in particular, new contexts and functions of established rules. The 1982 Convention seems capable of coping with most of them, although it remains useful to explore its possibilities and limits. This work, covering many aspects, will be useful to anyone interested in the law of the sea.