Protection Of Cultural Resources Research Articles

Three new strategies for improving biosecurity and invasive species management to build resilience in Pacific Islands

The inaugural Pacific Ecological Security Conference (PESC) was held in October 2022, bringing together over 100 island leaders, policy-makers, natural resource managers and global and regional invasive species experts to prioritise the critical issue of invasive species in the Pacific Islands Region. Participants confirmed that invasive species are a major threat to building and maintaining climate resilience and adaptability of Pacific Island ecosystems, as well as food security, biodiversity, sustainable livelihoods and the protection of cultural resources and way of life. Three region-wide strategic action plans were developed to guide interventions focused on the topics of invasive ants, coconut rhinoceros beetle and the use of biological control as a pest and weed management tool. These plans were the major outcome of the PESC and, when implemented, will result in coordinated activities that take a “whole-of-Pacific” approach to invasive species biosecurity and management. Here, we briefly describe the background, planning and engagement process for the three plans, summarise any country- and territory-level data obtained through the process and detail what is planned to occur over the next few years. In addition to the adoption and implementation of the strategies as a result of this inaugural PESC, we anticipate that the PESC will become the premier regional conference aimed at reducing the entry and impacts of invasive species to improve sustainability of environments and peoples of the Pacific.

The Contemporary Value and Significance of Protecting Li Bai’s Cultural Resources from the Perspective of Cultural Communication Studies

Li Bai is a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty who holds an important position in the cultural history of China.This article explores the value of Li Bai’s cultural resources in contemporary society and the importance of protectingthem through the lens of cultural communication studies. This article begins with a review of the historical achievementsof Li Bai, followed by an analysis of the dissemination methods of Li Bai’s cultural resources and their impact oncontemporary society. The analysis is done based on cultural communication theories, especially in terms of culturalinheritance, education, and social development. Secondly, this article emphasizes the importance of protecting Li Bai’scultural resources and proposes a series of protection strategies, including policy support, technological innovation, andpublic participation. Research has shown that Li Bai’s cultural resources are not only a valuable asset of traditional Chineseculture but also an important contributor to promoting cultural diversity and sustainable development. The purpose of thiswork is to provide a theoretical basis for the protection and dissemination of Li Bai cultural resources and to provide areference for the study of other cultural heritage.

Research on the Construction of Cultural Parks in the Jing-Jin-Ji Region Based on Foreign Models: A Study on the Development of Ice and Snow Tourism Routes

National cultural park is an innovative initiative for the protection and development of natural and cultural heritage resources in the new era, reflecting the core strategy of cultural heritage protection and development of representative cultural resources. It is not only an important carrier for the protection of natural and cultural heritage, but also a new model for promoting the development of cultural industry. Based on their own national conditions and experiences, countries have developed distinctive national park management models, including the native recreation value orientation of the United States, the sustainable club economy of Europe, the public supremacy of private ownership of land in the United Kingdom, and the synergistic community-neighborhood development of developing countries in Asia and Africa. In view of the heritage resources brought by the Beijing Winter Olympics, this study explores the idea of ice and snow tourism routes centered on Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, and proposes the principles of sustainable development, mutual benefit and symbiosis, and public supremacy, which is committed to constructing a development model integrating culture, tourism and ecology.

The Path of Digital Protection and Innovative Development of Rural Traditional Cultural Resources Supported by Intelligent Information

Abstract The digitized quality of rural traditional cultural resources is relatively low, and there are problems such as heterogeneity and incompleteness in the resource data, resulting in the limitation of related cultural data information mining and the inability to realize deep development and innovation. Therefore, this paper combines the fully connected neural network and fuzzy C-mean clustering algorithm to construct a cultural digital resource clustering model, and based on the clustering results combined with CR-LDA and collaborative filtering algorithm to achieve personalized recommendation of rural traditional cultural digital resources. The experimental results show that the clustering model combining a fully connected neural network and a fuzzy C-mean clustering algorithm has a better clustering effect than the other three clustering models, and it also shows good robustness and stability. In addition, although the collaborative filtering model combining the CR-LDA algorithm has a slight increase in runtime compared to the LDA model runtime, the classification accuracy is significantly improved. It thus can provide platform users with practical and reliable cultural resource recommendations. Most users indicated in the survey that they agreed with the results of the model’s personalized cultural digital resource recommendations.

Research on Development and Protection of Cultural Heritage Tourism Resources in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract This paper constructs the basic framework of the spatial pattern analysis method of historical, cultural heritage with the relevant technology of artificial intelligence and analyzes the spatial pattern of historical cultural heritage through spatial correlation analysis. ArcGIS and FineBI software are used to carry out correlation analysis on the degree of spatial aggregation, spatial distribution density, and related point and line distribution of cultural heritage tourism resources so as to derive the spatial distribution characteristics of cultural heritage tourism resources. Shanzhou Region, Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, is taken as the research object to empirically analyze the development and protection of its cultural heritage tourism resources. The results show that the values of global autocorrelation Moran’s I of spatial mismatch of cultural heritage tourism resources are all positive, and the mean value of Z(I) is 6.07956, P(I)<0.05, indicating that the spatial mismatch index of cultural heritage tourism resources at the city level has a significant spatial clustering tendency and an obvious clustering tendency. This study offers scientific suggestions for the development of cultural heritage resources in tourism, and it is also crucial for the development of Chinese cultural heritage sites.

A general method for multi–hazard intensity assessment for cultural resources: Implementation in the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

The protection of cultural resources from natural and human–induced hazards has been an area of intense scientific interest over time. The literature highlights that, despite the intensive research efforts to date, there is a lack of a commonly accepted hazard assessment framework that supports decision–making to limit their negative effects and contribute to the protection of cultural heritage. In this paper a general method for assessing the intensity of multiple hazards on cultural resources is developed and applied. The proposed method utilizes a) the capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), b) open geospatial hazard data and c) an original 7–step integrated method developed in this research. Key features of the proposed method are its ability to consider and synthesize intensities of both quantitative hazards such as earthquake, flood and hazards expressed on a qualitative scale, such as wildfire and landslide. The proposed method is applied to assess the exposure of 918 cultural resources of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, to earthquake, flood, landslide, sea level rise, wildfire, soil erosion and industrial–technological accident and develop an aggregate multi–hazard intensity index (mhii) for each of the cultural resources in this region. The proposed method can be applied to hazard intensity assessment for resources other than cultural, such as the human capital of a region, infrastructure, environment, and economic facilities. This provides researchers, scientists, and managers of cultural sites with a tool to set priorities for the design of appropriate mitigation strategies to reduce the negative impacts of hazards.

Sustainable Use of Natural and Cultural Resources in the Cross-Border Region Slovenia – Croatia

One example of cross-border cooperation is between the two neighboring Balkan countries of Slovenia and Croatia. Recently, the quality and intensity of this cooperation have been significantly affected by the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic. In this context, this article examines the quality of balanced cross-border cooperation between Croatia and Slovenia, the exploitation of hitherto unexploited potential for increasing the utilization of the region’s natural and cultural resources, and the possibility of rebuilding and developing the tourism sector; in fact, it was in decline as a consequence of the pandemic. Besides, improving the quality of the environment and raising the standard of living and quality of life for the people living in the border areas was another objective. Slovenia and Croatia are promoting a sustainable, safe, and vibrant border area by supporting smart approaches to the protection, mobilization, and management of natural and cultural resources. People living, working, or visiting the area have seen many benefits from this. To provide innovative, smart, and practical solutions that help preserve and enhance the quality of the environment and its diverse identity as well as activate its socioeconomic potential, the main focus has been on harnessing the natural and cultural values of the area. It has been achieved by increasing opportunities for institutional cooperation at all levels to ensure a safe and vibrant environment.

Construction and Empirical Study on the Value Assessment System of Traditional Cultural Resources: Taking Shandong Province in China as an Example

Accurate value assessment is the cornerstone and key to ensuring the effective protection, inheritance, and utilization of traditional cultural resources. Based on existing study and relevant literature on cultural resource assessment, combined with the characteristics of traditional cultural resources themselves, this study has constructed a general index system for evaluating traditional cultural resources from four dimensions: resource quality, development conditions, resource value and resource utility. The analytic hierarchy process(AHP) was used to determine the weight of each factor of the criteria layer and each evaluating index of the index layer, and a traditional cultural resource value assessment model was constructed by combining the scoring method of the ultimate indicator. Subsequently, based on the empirical evaluation of traditional cultural resources in Shandong Province, this study puts forward relevant suggestions for effective protection, inheritance and utilization of traditional cultural resources from the perspectives of government, enterprises and society.

Research on the Protection and Industrialization Development of Tuanshan Residential Cultural Resources

Our country's cultural industry has entered a period of rapid development, the development potential of national minority cultural industries is also a powerful grasping hand to promote rural revitalization. Under this background, in order to realize the protection and industrialization development of cultural resources in ethnic minority areas, the paper, based on literature research and field research, under the guidance of the principles of the overall protection, villager main body and community participation, takes the protection and industrialization development of folk dwellings cultural resources in Tuanshan, Honghe Prefecture as the case, sort out the historical evolution, natural conditions and cultural relics of the region. Based on the primary data of field research, this paper analyzes the benign combination of Tuanshan residential houses for cultural resources protection and industrial development from four perspectives: overall landscape, specific architecture, village gate construction and supporting tourism products, and puts forward optimization suggestions with certain reference significance.

Research on the Protection and Development of Historical and Cultural Resources in the Yellow River Basin from the Perspective of Ecological Civilization

In building the ecological civilization of the Yellow River basin, it is of extraordinary importance to preserve and develop the historical and cultural resources of the Yellow River basin to ensure the economic and cultural prosperity of its surroundings. Based on the need to better protect and develop the historical and cultural resources of the Yellow River Basin, we have developed a research system for the conservation and development of the natural and cultural resources of the Yellow River Basin. It covers both the conservation of the natural resources and the development of the cultural heritage of the Yellow River Basin. The assessment results show that in the Yellow River travel assessment score, the score in 2018 was 67.12, and in 2021 the score rises to 76.23, an increase of 13.57%. In the exploitation of the natural and historical resources of the Yellow River Basin, the scores of related travel, books, and transportation have improved significantly. Yellow River-related history books scored only 63.21 in 2018 for books and increased by 16.04% to 73.35 in 2021. In the transportation sector in the Yellow River Basin, the score was 65.37 in 2018, rising to 75 in 2021.

Reflections on the Protection and Development of Red Cultural Resources

Reflections on the Protection and Development of Red Cultural Resources

The contribution of footpaths to the protection and utilization of the natural environment by using the VIKOR method for their ranking

The numerous benefits, physical and mental, of hiking, trekking, and mountain climbing are well documented in literature. The preservation and thorough maintenance of hiking trails can have multiple impacts: apart from the protection of natural and cultural resources, trails can also make hiking more appealing and popular and lead to multifaceted development of local areas. However, human trampling may be the cause of soil compaction and erosion and may ultimately lead to trail and landscape degradation. For this reason, long distance trails should be better designed to minimize potential future problems and should be constantly monitored to ensure their viability. In the present paper, the VIKOR method was applied for the ranking of the hiking trails located in the Regional Unit of Thessaloniki, Greece, with a view to improving their technical characteristics in the future. The questionnaire included seven criteria (Start Elevation, Summit Elevation, Slope, Degree of Difficulty, Length, Hiking Time, Starting Point Distance from the City), which were rated and ranked by members of mountaineering clubs as to their importance in mountaineers’ routing decisions. The proposed trail rating approach can be a valuable tool for evaluating or improving the sustainability of existing or new trails in the region.

Geocultural Landscape and Sustainable Development at Apano Meria in Syros Island, Central Aegean Sea, Greece: An Ecomuseological Approach for the Promotion of Geological Heritage

In order to create a cultural landscape, the number of different types of ecomuseums around the world, covering many sites, has recently increased. Their establishment aims at the protection of natural and cultural resources. The north area of Syros Island offers significant opportunities for the development of a museum model that promotes the sustainable development of the local community. The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility of developing a museum model that promotes the sustainable development of the local community in Apano Meria, Syros Island, which is a representative site with natural, geological, and archaeological heritage. For this purpose, the engagement and participation of the local inhabitants was evaluated through various activities, the basic principles of which are based on the concepts of New Museology and, more specifically, those of ecomuseums. Qualitative research was carried out through on-site observations, including discussions, participant observation, documentation, and in-depth interviews with local people. This research revealed that, so far, the conservation of the Apano Meria landscape is mainly due to the action of local people, who have repeatedly been called upon to show strong resistance to external factors that threatened to alter it. In their long-term effort to preserve and protect the area, but also to develop it in terms of sustainable development, the idea of its possible future inclusion in the UNESCO Global Network of Geoparks was proposed.

Construction of Digital Platform of Religious and Cultural Resources Using Deep Learning and Its Big Data Analysis.

This article analyzes the difficulties associated with the preservation and transmission of religious cultural resources and the difficulties encountered in the new development environment and background. It does so in light of the current state of religious, cultural resources. The protection, growth, and use of religious and cultural resources against the backdrop of the digital era are elaborated upon and critically analyzed in this article. Based on the foregoing discussion, this article conducts a thorough analysis of the development of a digital platform for religious and cultural resources and its big data analysis, and it also suggests an image feature extraction algorithm based on DL. This article develops a clustering CNN based on the network with PCA vector as convolution kernel, which clusters small images and computes principal component vectors according to categories, generating multiple groups of convolution kernels to extract more features so that the input image can select feature extractors adaptively. Simulation and comparative analysis are used in this article to confirm the algorithm's effectiveness. Compared to the conventional NN algorithm, simulation results indicate that this algorithm is more accurate, with a maximum accuracy of about 95.14 percent. It has some reference value for the research that will be done in relation to the creation of the next digital platform for religious and cultural resources.

Key Technologies of Digital Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage Based on Virtual Reality Technology

Due to the increasing progress of digital technology in recent years, the protection, inheritance, development, and utilization of historical and cultural resources have become more and more integrated into it, and it has become an ideal way. At present, many countries and regions have carried out relevant research projects. With the change of the living conditions of cultural heritage and the rapid development of sci & tech, many traditional protection methods are no longer suitable and need to be replaced by new protection methods. Digital protection technology is one of the fastest developing and most concerned. With the help of virtual reality (VR) technology, it presents the essence of Chinese culture for thousands of years and comprehensively combines the characteristics of all viewpoint with traditional Chinese culture. Select the representative Chinese traditional culture as the research direction, and analyze the cultural characteristics contained in the Chinese traditional culture. In this paper, Harris operator is used to extract the feature points of the images, and two registered images are calculated according to the affine transformation coefficient. The images after affine transformation are bilinear interpolated and weighted smoothed according to the adjacent position of the overlapping area to realize the seamless mosaic design of the images and the forward and backward projection algorithm of cylindrical panoramic images. And study the artistic expression of 3D panoramic image acquisition. Based on the analysis and experiment, it can be obtained that after calculation, the average spatial data acquisition efficiency can reach 61.8%. In practice, the average display effect can reach 60.4%.

CEQA Tribal Cultural Resource Protection: Gaps in the Law and Implementation

Assembly Bill No. 52 (AB 52) amended the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in 2014 to mandate early tribal consultation prior to and during CeQA review, and it positions California Native American tribes as the experts on cultural resources within their own geographical areas. AB 52 affords tribal governments a seat at the decisionmaking table alongside public agencies and California local governments. The law also provides greater legal protection and demands more stringent consultation requirements than other historic and cultural resource protection statutes. However, despite formal advancement in tribal resource protection and recognition of tribal expertise, implementation of AB 52 is flawed. The purpose of this paper is to identify problems with the legislative language of AB 52 and gaps in its implementation to provide a point of reflection on how to improve government to government consultation.

Cultural Resources, Conquest, and Courts: How State Court Approaches to Statutory Interpretation Diminish Indigenous Cultural Resources Protections in California, Hawai‘i, and Washington

Critical Race Theory identifies two of the United States’ original sins: slavery and conquest; yet, while the former is well known, the latter is simultaneously obvious and unknown, creating a disconnect between the history of violent conquest to the disparities that continue to afflict indigenous communities today. This lack of understanding and acknowledgement also permeates the federal courts—an issue extensively documented by Critical Race Theory and federal Indian law academics. Yet, limited scholarship has interrogated if and how state judicial systems may parallel the failures of federal benches. This Note examines the “hidden,” yet enduring impact of conquest by applying Critical Race Theory perspectives to cultural resources protection, as safeguarded (or hindered) by state court interpretations of both historic preservation laws and environmental review processes. Specifically, this research focuses on the state judicial systems of California, Hawai‘i, and Washington—predominantly liberal and social justice-oriented political arenas with large indigenous populations—to investigate if and how state court approaches to statutory interpretation affect the protection, preservation, and tangible and intangible rights to land of Native Americans, Alaskans, Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders. As the Western United States’ “liberal sisters,” do California, Hawai‘i, and Washington’s politics foster judicial interpretations favorable to indigenous communities? Or, conversely, do liberal legislative and popular appeals to civil rights and environmental protection fail to facilitate judicial respect for Native knowledge and sovereignty? By applying a Critical Race Theory lens, this Note reveals that even in liberal enclaves, state courts uphold interpretations rooted in white supremacy and settler colonialism that diminish indigenous cultural resources protections and thereby perpetuate modern day conquest.

Exposure of cultural resources to 21st-century climate change: Towards a risk management plan

Anthropogenic climate change during the 21st century presents a significant challenge to the protection of cultural resources (CRs) on federal lands that encompass ∼ 28% of the U.S. In particular, CRs on this land base may be adversely affected by a wide range of climate-change hazards, including damage by sea-level rise, enhanced deterioration by increasing temperature and precipitation, and destruction by more-frequent and severe wildfire. Most current measures to manage the impacts of hazards on CRs use vulnerability assessments, but because these require that all CRs be treated as having an equal chance of being affected by climate-change hazards (i.e., equal exposure) across large landscapes, the cost and resources required for such analyses are overwhelming to land management agencies. Projections of changes in many hazards, however, show that the probability of hazard occurrence will be unevenly distributed on the landscape. Incorporating this information into a risk assessment thus allows CR managers to prioritize their efforts on assessing impacts to CRs in those areas where the probability of the hazard is greatest, thus increasing efficiency. We provide several heuristic examples of implementing the first part of a CR risk assessment by using 21st-century projections of several hazards most likely to adversely affect CRs on nine National Forests (NFs) managed by the U.S. Forest Service in northern Idaho and Montana. Overlaying the projected distribution of hazards on these NFs with the distribution of CRs identifies CR exposure that, with information on their vulnerability, is required to determine risk. Additional policy and field studies will be needed to determine how to prioritize those CRs that are most at risk according to their significance as well as identify how impacts can be reduced and managed through adaptation planning and implementation. Adaptation will follow the iterative risk management process particularly by improving projection resolution. Finer scale, process-based modeling informed by the highest priority CRs would also provide a means to assess various adaptation options that might change the estimated risk and increase the odds of CRs being as little affected as possible.

The 3rd International Conference on Life and Applied Sciences for Sustainable Rural Development (ICLAS-SURE) http://iclas.conference.unsoed.ac.id/

PREFACE International Conference on Life and Applied Sciences for Sustainable Rural Development (ICLAS-SURE) is an annual international event organized by Institute of Research and Community Service, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman (Unsoed), Indonesia. Universitas Jenderal Soedirman (Unsoed) is one of the outstanding National University in Indonesa, which is located in Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia. This university was established by Minister of Higher Education and Science, Republic Indonesia, based on Presidential Decree No. 195 dated September 23, 1963. Since 1963, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman has been experiencing on rural resource development as well as community services.Following the success of the 1st and 2nd ICLAS-SURE, this year, the Institute of Research and Community Service, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, organize The 3rd ICLAS-SURE. The vision of Jenderal Soedirman University is to be globally recognized as a university that focuses on sustainable rural and local wisdom development. Hopefully, this core competence in sustainable rural development shall initiate the university to be nationally and internationally renowned as the center of rural community empowerment. To achieve this vision and cope with the COVID 19 pandemic, this year, we bring the particular theme, “Interdisciplinary approaches and applied technologies for sustainable rural-environmental resources based on local wisdom before and during COVID-19 pandemic”. COVID-19 has led to a significant loss of output, employment, and income, affecting rural development. To develop a sustainable rural development, we must fulfil three basic needs, i.e. people welfare improvement, protection of natural, landscape, and cultural resources, and food security through a sustainable farming production.List of Committee, Steering Committee, Organizing Committee, Editorial Board, are available in the pdf

Legal aspects of ecotourism: towards creating an international legislative framework

Aspectos legales del ecoturismo: hacia la creación de un marco legislativo internacionalObjetivoEl presente estudio tiene como objetivo destacar las medidas preventivas más importantes que deberían proponer los formuladores de políticas y adoptar los órganos legislativos (inter)nacionales mediante la modificación de los documentos legales existentes o la adopción de nuevos. La implementación de estas medidas debe ser realizada por los organismos gubernamentales responsables del ecoturismo, la protección de los recursos naturales y culturales y los usuarios de los servicios de ecoturismo.Diseño/metodología/enfoqueSe ha aplicado un enfoque jurídico teórico, basado en la revisión sistemática de documentos internacionales legalmente vinculantes y no vinculantes relacionados con el ecoturismo, adoptados por las organizaciones internacionales pertinentes. Se ha realizado un análisis de las normas para la protección preventiva de los valores naturales y culturales, seguido de una investigación sobre la reforma legal en forma de recomendaciones que deberían adoptarse como vinculantes.HallazgosLos documentos legales internacionales relevantes para el ecoturismo analizados en este documento se dividen en dos grupos. El primero regula exclusivamente los temas de ecoturismo, mientras que el segundo se ocupa del desarrollo sostenible y se refiere al ecoturismo indirectamente, como uno de sus segmentos. Los documentos legales internacionales analizados requieren normas inequívocas que regulen las medidas de protección preventiva en el ecoturismo estableciendo obligaciones y prohibiciones reales para los temas relevantes. Las recomendaciones dadas se clasifican en cinco tipos según los temas que abordan (expertos en ecoturismo, formuladores de políticas, legisladores, conservacionistas naturales y culturales, comunidades locales, educadores).Originalidad/valorEste estudio es el primero que apunta a la necesidad de modificar los documentos legales internacionales relacionados con el ecoturismo a través de recomendaciones sobre la protección preventiva de los valores naturales y culturales.