Refining the Adaptive Capacity Framework for World Heritage Management
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Oct 18, 2019
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adaptive capacity World Heritage institutions Southeast Asia boundary of practice
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Well-developed in the context of climate change, the concept of adaptive capacity has so far not been applied extensively to the study of World Heritage management. This paper applies the analytic framework of adaptive capacity to better understand how institutional attributes enable or hinder systemic adaptation in managing World Heritage sites as boundaries of practice expand due to changing concepts of heritage and emerging management challenges. Drawing upon case studies from Southeast Asia, the study proposes a refined framework with the following dimensions of adaptive capacity: cognitive frames, learning capacity, resources, formal governance measures, organizational relationships, and agency.
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Unakul, M. (2019). Refining the Adaptive Capacity Framework for World Heritage Management. Nakhara : Journal of Environmental Design and Planning, 17, 25–42. https://doi.org/10.54028/NJ2019172542
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Lawrence, T. B., & Suddaby, R. (2006). Institutions and institutional work. In S. Clegg, C. Hardy, T. B. Lawrence, & W. R. Nord (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of organization studies (Second edition). London: Sage Publications.
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Polsky, C., Neff, R., & Yarnal, B. (2007). Building comparable global change vulnerability assessments: The vulnerability scoping diagram. Global Environmental Change, 17, 472-485.
Schatzki, T. R., Knorr Cetina, K., & Von Savigny, E. (2001). The practice turn in contemporary theory. London: Routledge.
Skocpol, T. S., Margaret. (1980). The uses of comparative history in macrosocial inquiry. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 22, 174-197.
Senge, P. (1990). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York: Doubleday.
Smit, B., Burton, I., Klein, R., & Wandel, J. (2000). An anatomy of adaptation to climate change and variability. Climatic Change, 45, 223-251.
Thompson, J., & Wijesuriya, G. (2018). From ‘sustaining heritage’ to ‘heritage sustaining broader societal wellbeing and benefits’: an ICCROM perspective. In W. Logan & P. Larsen (Eds.), World Heritage and Sustainable Development: New Directions in World Heritage Management. London: Routledge.
UNESCO. (2012). Understanding World Heritage in Asia and the Pacific. Paris: World Heritage Centre.
UNESCO. (2014). State of conservation of World Heritage properties: A statistical analysis (1979-2013). Paris: World Heritage Centre.
Veblen, T. (1899). The theory of the leisure class: An economic study of institutions. New York: MacMillan.
Weick, K. E., & Sutcliffe, K. M. (2001). Managing the unexpected: Assuring high performance in an age of complexity. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Yin, R. K. (2013). Case study research: Design and methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Yohe, G., & Tol, R. S. J. (2002). Indicators for social and economic coping capacity--moving toward a working definition of adaptive capacity. Global Environmental Change, 12, 1, 25-40.