Going Beyond

Introduction and Introductory Reflections.- Part I  Beyond the Current - New Political Commitments.- Culture as an Enabler for Sustainable Development - Challenges for the World Heritage Convention in Adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.- The Potential of Culture for Sustainable Development in Heritage Studies.- Natural World Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals.- Part II Beyond Existing Approaches - New and Innovative Theoretical Perceptions.- The Sustainability of Digital Documentary Heritage.- Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Culture - Diverging Concepts and Practices in European Heritage Work.- Culture, Development and Sustainability: The Cultural Impact of Development and Culture's Role in Sustainability.- From Obstacle to Resource:  How Built Cultural Heritage can Contribute to Resilient Cities.- Part III Shifts in the Understanding of Heritage and Sustainability.- Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development in Sacred Places: Towards a New Approach.- Beyond Conventional Limits: Intangible Heritage Values and Sustainability Through Sport.- Contextual Sustainability in Heritage Practice: Urbanization, Neighbourliness, and Community Dialogue in Akçalar, Turkey.- Part IV Best Practises and Narratives.- Shaken Cityscapes: Tangible and Intangible Urban Heritage in Kathmandu, Nepal and Yogyakarta, Indonesia.- Aspects of Social Imperative: The Sustainable Historic Environment in the Developing World.- The Dilemma of Zambia's Barotse Plains Cultural Landscape Nomination: Implications for Sustainable Development.- Feeling Responsible for the Good Life on Earth: The Construction of Social Spaces and Sustainability in the Andes.- Part V Beyond the Mainstream.- Sustainable Power: Decolonising Sustainability Through Anishinaabe Birchbark Canoe Building.- Cant of Reconquest and the Struggle for Restoring Sustainability

Prof. Dr., Marie-Theres Albert, Professor Emerita and Former Chairholder Chair Intercultural Studies UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies, studied and completed her doctorate and habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin in educational science, sociology and educational economics. From 1994 to 2015 she led the Chair Intercultural Studies at BTU Cottbus and has been the chair holder of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies since October 2003. She is the co-founder and former director (1999-2010) of the masters programme "World Heritage Studies" and founder and director (since 2010) of the Ph.D. programme "International Graduate School: Heritage Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg". In this context, she has, since 2010, positioned Heritage Studies paradigmatically in the interest of human development and has developed it progressively into its own discipline with a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach. She initiated the series "Heritage Studies" to support the process of scientific development discursively. Prof. Dr. Albert is co-editor and also a member of the editorial advisory board for this publication.

Francesco Bandarin, is the UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture. He is Professor of Urban Planning and Conservation at the University IUAV of Venice (currently on leave). From 2000 to 2011 he was Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Secretary of the World Heritage Convention. He is President of the Italian Association of the Historic Cities (ANCSA), member of the Visiting Committee of the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles and member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. His recent publications include: *The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century*, 2012 and *Reconnecting the City*. *The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban Heritage*, 2015, both co-authored with Ron van Oers and

"This edited volume makes an important contribution to the current knowledge that aims to critically navigate sustainability in tourism. This volume would make an excellent resource for undergraduate students, as well as an important resource for graduate students specifically interested in the pursuit of research in sustainability in heritage studies." (Karla Boluk, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, February, 2019)