Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Acronyms
- Introduction
- Section 1 Bridging Nature and Culture
- Section 2 Urbanism and Sustainable Heritage Development
- Section 3 Integrated Planning and Indigenous Engagement
- Section 4 Living Heritage and Safeguarding Outstanding Universal Value
- Section 5 More than the Monumental
- 22 Dahshur villages in community development: Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur, Egypt
- 23 Sustainable development in a Dutch-German World Heritage site: The Wadden Sea, Germany and the Netherlands
- 24 World Heritage site status – a catalyst for heritage-led sustainable regeneration: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, United Kingdom
- 25 World Heritage in poverty alleviation: Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil
- 26 Angkor Archaeological Park and communities: Angkor, Cambodia
- Pathways to sustainable development
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Photo Credits
- Index
23 - Sustainable development in a Dutch-German World Heritage site: The Wadden Sea, Germany and the Netherlands
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Acronyms
- Introduction
- Section 1 Bridging Nature and Culture
- Section 2 Urbanism and Sustainable Heritage Development
- Section 3 Integrated Planning and Indigenous Engagement
- Section 4 Living Heritage and Safeguarding Outstanding Universal Value
- Section 5 More than the Monumental
- 22 Dahshur villages in community development: Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur, Egypt
- 23 Sustainable development in a Dutch-German World Heritage site: The Wadden Sea, Germany and the Netherlands
- 24 World Heritage site status – a catalyst for heritage-led sustainable regeneration: Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, United Kingdom
- 25 World Heritage in poverty alleviation: Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil
- 26 Angkor Archaeological Park and communities: Angkor, Cambodia
- Pathways to sustainable development
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Photo Credits
- Index
Summary
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The Wadden Sea covers an area along the North Sea coast of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. It is a ‘large temperate, relatively flat coastal wetland environment, formed by the intricate interactions between physical and biological factors that have given rise to a multitude of transitional habitats with tidal channels, sandy shoals, sea-grass meadows, mussel beds, sandbars, mud flats, salt marshes, estuaries, beaches and dunes. … The [site] is home to numerous plant and animal species, including marine mammals such as the harbour seal, grey seal and harbour porpoise. … The site is one of the last remaining natural, large-scale, intertidal ecosystems where natural processes continue to function largely undisturbed’.
In 1978 the first Governmental Conference on the protection of the Wadden Sea took place between the three countries. The Joint Declaration on the Protection of the Wadden Sea was signed in 1982. It formed the basis of the World Heritage nomination. In 2009 the Dutch and German part of 973,562 ha/9,735.6 km2 was inscribed on the World Heritage List for its uninterrupted system of intertidal sand and mud flats, the largest in the world. The natural processes are undisturbed throughout most of the area. The nomination file states that the ‘underlying approach of the conservation and sustainable use of the nominated property is an ecosystem approach’.
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- World HeritageBenefits Beyond Borders, pp. 279 - 289Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012