Highlights ICOMOS General Assembly 2023
December 28, 2023
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Environmental economists have traditionally focused on the management of physical park units when performing economic valuations. The value NPS creates by operating cooperative programs outside of its park boundaries (including programs aimed at education, conservation, historical preservation, and recreation) through collaboration with local partners is just as relevant albeit more difficult to define.Still, we cannot omit the value that programs provide just because it is harder to quantify.
The Riverspark State Heritage Area in New York, one of the first in the nation, was designated to interpret the themes of industry and labor. Industry was an easy theme for Riverspark because its industrial history in its cities like Troy, Cohoes and Watervliet and villages like Green Island and Waterford preserved large 19th century industrial structures like the Harmony Mills in Cohoes, the Watervliet Arsenal and the Gurley Building in Troy. In addition, industrial archeologists have done an excellent job identifying and interpreting the 19th century industrial history of the area. The challenge for Riverspark was to interpret the labor theme.
The US/ICOMOS Gap Study Report is the product of a series of consultations that took from August to December, 2015. US/ICOMOS is grateful to the hundreds of heritage professionals and experts who participated in this process. Drawing from their feedback, the Study identifies categories of U.S. cultural resources with potential universal and national significance that could both represent the breadth of U.S. heritage and also fill gaps in the World Heritage List previously identified by international experts.
Why have the so-called “crown jewels” of the National Park system (mostly large, rural areas in the western U.S.) received the majority of scholarly and public attention? How does looking at park units in a variety of settings, including urban areas, change perspectives on the system’s history, present condition and future direction? A panel considered these questions at the recent NCPH meeting in Baltimore, MD.
This post , NPS and Anniversaries, first ran in our September 2015 newsletter. We are re-printing it now in an effort to spark conversation not only about the NPS centennial, but also the legacy of the Obama Presidency and National Parks more generally. After almost 8 years, what do you see as the primary imprint of the Administration on the National Park System and other public lands? What will be the long term impacts of the administration’s efforts to protect resources on a landscape scale and tell the history of all Americans? What about the direction of the 2016 Centennial? And most importantly, what will be the emphasis of the next administration?
Environmental economists have traditionally focused on the management of physical park units when performing economic valuations. The value NPS creates by operating cooperative programs outside of its park boundaries (including programs aimed at education, conservation, historical preservation, and recreation) through collaboration with local partners is just as relevant albeit more difficult to define.Still, we cannot omit the value that programs provide just because it is harder to quantify.
The Riverspark State Heritage Area in New York, one of the first in the nation, was designated to interpret the themes of industry and labor. Industry was an easy theme for Riverspark because its industrial history in its cities like Troy, Cohoes and Watervliet and villages like Green Island and Waterford preserved large 19th century industrial structures like the Harmony Mills in Cohoes, the Watervliet Arsenal and the Gurley Building in Troy. In addition, industrial archeologists have done an excellent job identifying and interpreting the 19th century industrial history of the area. The challenge for Riverspark was to interpret the labor theme.
The US/ICOMOS Gap Study Report is the product of a series of consultations that took from August to December, 2015. US/ICOMOS is grateful to the hundreds of heritage professionals and experts who participated in this process. Drawing from their feedback, the Study identifies categories of U.S. cultural resources with potential universal and national significance that could both represent the breadth of U.S. heritage and also fill gaps in the World Heritage List previously identified by international experts.
Why have the so-called “crown jewels” of the National Park system (mostly large, rural areas in the western U.S.) received the majority of scholarly and public attention? How does looking at park units in a variety of settings, including urban areas, change perspectives on the system’s history, present condition and future direction? A panel considered these questions at the recent NCPH meeting in Baltimore, MD.
This post , NPS and Anniversaries, first ran in our September 2015 newsletter. We are re-printing it now in an effort to spark conversation not only about the NPS centennial, but also the legacy of the Obama Presidency and National Parks more generally. After almost 8 years, what do you see as the primary imprint of the Administration on the National Park System and other public lands? What will be the long term impacts of the administration’s efforts to protect resources on a landscape scale and tell the history of all Americans? What about the direction of the 2016 Centennial? And most importantly, what will be the emphasis of the next administration?