Technical notes (a) Derivation of terms

Centre

see UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Secretariat

Clearly defined landscape


Clearly defined landscape is one of the three main
categories of cultural landscapes adopted by the
World Heritage Committee at its sixteenth session in
December 1992 (UNESCO 14 December 1992: 54-55) and included
in the Operational Guidelines (UNESCO February 1996:
11, Paragraph 39).
Paragraph 39 (i) of the Operational Guidelines refers
to clearly defined landscapes in the following way:
39.
(i) The most easily identifiable is the clearly defined
landscape designed and created intentionally by man.
This embraces garden and parkland landscapes constructed
for aesthetic reasons which are often (but not always)
associated with religious or other monumental buildings
and ensembles (UNESCO February 1996: 11).


CNPPA

The CNPPA (Commission on National Parks and Protected

Areas) is one of the six voluntary Commissions of
IUCN - The World Conservation Union. The
CNPPA is the largest worldwide network of protected
area managers and specialists. The CNPPA mission is
to promote the establishment and effective management of a
worldwide network of terrestrial and marine protected areas.

see IUCN, IUCN evaluation

Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)

see CNPPA

Committee

see World Heritage Committee

Comparative assessments

In stating that properties included in the World Heritage

List should be carefully selected, Paragraph 9 of the
Operational Guidelines further comments that
"comparative assessments for the harmonization of tentative
lists and nominations of cultural properties" should be
performed (UNESCO February 1996: 4).

see Comparative evaluations, Tentative list,

Harmonization