Heritage Conservation in Asia : Shifts and Developments, 1972-2012

Protecting Siam's heritage

Auteurs :
KAMMEIER, H. D.
BAKER, C.J.

Description :
The World Heritage system may be the most visible and prestigious framework of conservation worldwide, but the local and national dimensions are more important for each country and locality. In Thailand there are only five sites with World Heritage status, but it exists hundreds more significant buildings, historic towns, nature parks and wetlands, apart from other largely intangible cultural goods such as dance and music, all of which deserved to be preserved. Many of these vestiges are threatened by modernization and squeezed into a marginal existence, neglected for lack of interest and lack of funding. In the growing cities they are barely tolerated and often demolished. However, since 1992, the conservation and global environment movements are seen by many pre-industrializing countries as western concepts which compete with the more pressing problems of poverty, health, education, social injustice and inequality. - (GL)


Type de document :
Article de monographie

Source :
Collection The Journal of the Siam Society, 2013, vol. 100, p. 281-294, nombre de pages : 14, Références bibliographiques : 2 p.

Date :
2013

Identifiants :
isbn : 978-616-215-059-3

Editeur :
Pays édition : Thailande, Bangkok ; Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books ; The Siam Society under Royal Patronage