Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77559 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 14
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Abstract: 
The official intention of the UNESCO World Heritage List is to protect the global heritage. However, the imbalance of the distribution of Sites according to countries and continents is striking. Consequently, the World Heritage Committee launched the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List in 1994. To date, there have not been any empirical analyses conducted to study the impact of this strategy. This paper shows that the imbalance did not decrease and perhaps increased over time, thus reflecting the inability of the Global Strategy to achieve a more balanced distribution of Sites.
Subjects: 
UNESCO
international organizations
international political economy
global public goods
world heritage
JEL: 
Z11
D6
F5
H87
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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