Heritage Regimes Research Articles

Best Practice Heritage Protection: Australia's National Heritage Regime and the Tarkine

In January 2004, the Australian Government introduced a new federal heritage regime based around the National Heritage List (NHL). This regime has a significant governance defect; the heritage minister controls the list rather than an independent heritage body, exposing it to political manipulation. This article reviews the NHL listing process and compares it to a ‘best practice’ model. A case study on the Tarkine, a wilderness area in north-west Tasmania, demonstrates how the NHL has been managed and the influence political factors have had on its administration. The case study reveals that the concerns about the politicisation of the NHL are well-founded and that changes ought to be made to ensure the regime fulfils its objectives.

Validating Planning Heritage: Evidence and Reasoning for National Heritage Recognition of The ‘City of Adelaide Plan’ and Park Lands

The Adelaide Park Lands and the ‘City of Adelaide Plan’ (1837), as prepared by Colonel William Light, have long been held up as an international precedent in town planning literature. The celebrated model, embraced by Ebenezer Howard to describe his Garden City theory, has several layers of cultural landscape heritage. The ‘Plan’, in recent years, has been subject to a rigorous investigation of its Indigenous and colonization evolutionary layers to inform moves to list the landscape as possessing national heritage status under relevant Australian heritage regimes, and more recently under the National Heritage List regime, as a pre-emptive strategy towards an eventual World Heritage nomination of the cultural landscape and ‘Plan’.

Globalização e direito internacional: da boa vizinhança ao patrimônio comum da humanidade

Perante os desafios globais com que se defronta a Humanidade no seu conjunto, o Direito Internacional é atravessado por um processo de transfiguração de alguns de seus postulados clássicos. Depois de sintetizar as grandes linhas dessa mudança, cujo sÃmbolo maior é o regime internacional de patrimônio comum da humanidade, este artigo põe em questão a adequação de acentuações correntes da dimensão institucional daquele processo à estrutura da sociedade internacional contemporânea.

Antartic minerals: A common heritage approach

The potential value of Antarctic mineral resources, including petroleum, has already spurred efforts by the Antarctic Treaty powers to establish a legal and technical regime for minerals. Management and control of Antarctic minerals need not, however, be left to the countries that have staked territorial claims or otherwise been active in Antarctica. Possible mineral regimes include open access (or first-come, first-served) and a variety of multilateral and international approaches. This article suggests that a common heritage approach would be most suitable for Antarctica and, despite opposition to such an approach among the Antarctic Treaty powers, would be a practical solution to the mineral development issue. The time for international organizations to act to establish such a common heritage regime is, however, growing short.