THE FARO CONVENTION, A NEW PARADIGM FOR SOCIALLY - AND CULTURALLY - SUSTAINABLE HERITAGE ACTION?

Abstract

This paper explores the centrality of heritage-based cultural activity to sustainable development, within the frame of the Faro Convention on the ‘Value of Cultural Heritage for Society’. It offers examples from France and the Balkans of successful ways to interweave heritage and culture into place-based and landscape-sensitive strategies for social sustainability

Keywords

• Faro Convention, cultural sustainability, her-itage, diversity, memory, citizens, Paris, Belgrade, Skop-je, Sarajevo, COST IS1007