Values in Heritage Management: Emerging Approaches and Research Directions, Paperback

Bringing together leading conservation scholars and professionals from around the world, this volume offers a timely look at values-based approaches to heritage management.

Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based methods have come to influence conservation, takes stock of emerging approaches to values in heritage practice and policy, identifies common challenges and related spheres of knowledge, and proposes specific areas in which the development of new approaches and future research may help advance the field.

Erica Avrami is James Marston Fitch Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University. Susan Macdonald leads the Buildings and Sites Department at the Getty Conservation Institute. Randall Mason is chair of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. David Myers is senior project specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute.