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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)"”.
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Computer-Based Instruction for Engineering Education in the Developing World
… problems involving water, energy, infrastructure and environmental sustainability, these innovations can take years – or even decades – to reach developing countries. Computer-based instruction has the potential to dramatically decrease this lag time by improving engineering education in the …
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Canonizing Le Corbusier: The Making of an Architectural Icon as Colonial Hegemony
… Franco-Swiss modern architect, Le Corbusier, and his nearly complete oeuvre of seventeen buildings, would be enshrined on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s World Heritage List. With this notable decision, Le Corbusier, the figure, moved from …
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A Tale of Three Cities: An Evaluation of Urban World Heritage Management in Mexico
<p>UNESCO's World Heritage list aims to protect tangible and intangible World Heritage of "universal value." Mexico ranks third worldwide, surpassed only by Italy (16) and Spain (12), with ten World Heritage cities, an accomplishment frequently touted in official rhetoric and tourism promotion. …
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When home becomes world heritage : the case of Aleppo, Syria
… One such list for the conservation of cultural heritage objects is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List. In this thesis, I seek to understand how this international device impacts planning at a local level, specifically in the …
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Linguistic rights in Africa: A critical analysis of the survivability of indigenous languages of Namibia
The call for the protection and promotion of languages, especially minority languages has gained prominence in recent years largely due to awareness campaigns by academics and human rights organisations. The United Nations through its agency the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural …
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Holding the line: assembling and mapping local and traditional knowledge of historic injustice and environmental change held by handline fishers in the Cape Agulhas region
… region of South Africa hold valuable local and traditional knowledge that is insufficiently incorporated in fishery governance. Several meta-level global directives including the Convention for Biodiversity (CBD), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and …
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A hierarchical and longitudinal analysis of the effects of international food and agricultural commodity price surges on domestic income distribution
… question debated among development scholars and professionals is whether the distribution of income within nations is becoming less equitable due to the forces of globalization. This study investigated the effect of a single global economic event, the 2006 to 2008 global food price surges, on …
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Innovation of Tourism Mobility Systems in Historic City Centres: The Case of Austria
… involves people on the move. Although controlled and well-managed tourism mobility can facilitate the sustainable touristic utilisation of places, uncontrolled touristic movement often creates significant challenges for host destinations. Developments in technology and digitalisation, such as the …
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Moving Experiences: Traveling Museum Exhibitions and the Infrastructures of Cultural Globalization
… for museum exchange was established by two organizations dedicated to cultural peacebuilding: the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the International Council of Museums (ICOM). I argue that while these ambitions spatially reorganized museums in …
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The lives of film: heritage, restoration, and the materialism of cinema
… of this apparatus around film heritage and film restoration, and in the context of post-Fordism, that is, the post-industrialization of the global economy. I argue that this materialism, which centers on the conservation of celluloid as the material artifact of a fading era, points to …
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Purpose, practice and power : a study of power in the work of seven heads of field offices in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
… in the power of heads of field offices in the United Nations Organization (UN) began with the researcher's appointment to such a position and with anecdotal suggestions that any explanation of the powers they held would be complex. For these reasons, this study has the research aim of …
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Radioactive heritage: an autoethnographic investigation of Chernobyl as a dark heritage site
… readers on a first-person tour of Chernobyl and the Exclusion Zone. In doing so, readers are given the unique first-person opportunity to experience the site, its heritage, and its value. The overarching questions addressed are whether Chernobyl’s heritage is universally valuable and does …
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Organological geopolitics and the Balaban of Azerbaijan: comparative musical dialogues concerning a double-reed aerophone of the post-Soviet Caucasus
… about the power of sound, how sound influences and is influenced by emotion, how emotion influences national politics, and how those politics spill over into international and intercultural relations. Specifically, it is about a shared double-reed musical instrument found throughout the South …
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"A nation can stay alive when it's culture and history stay alive" : Afghanistan's ongoing battle to protect its cultural heritage from looting, war, and terrorism.
Since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many have heard the story and seen the images of the looting in Iraq, especially at the Baghdad Museum. While the world was quick to react to the events in Iraq, similar events occurring for the past thirty years in Afghanistan have largely been …