Heritage Practices Today. Shifts and Impacts

Understanding the meaning of heritage through different perspectives is a challenging matter and demands a strong knowledge of recent academic literature. Recent trends focus on territories and communities rather than on punctual sites and works of genius and refer to dynamic concepts of landscape, itineraries, paths. The spotlight, also enhanced by the latest Unesco's guidelines, has moved thus from single to integrated heritage sites, in the form of regional, area, and transnational networks. Being very thought-provoking, the conceptualized sharp distinction in the heritage dichotomies cultural/natural is here brought to the fore and explored through examples related to the different territories presented in the volume.