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Stakeholder collaboration and heritage management
This article examines a collaborative approach to the relationship between heritage management and tourism development in Luang Prabang, Laos. The purpose is to examine stakeholder collaboration and management roles, heritage tourism development, as well as the interdependence of the heritage conservation and tourism relationship. The research examines a UNESCO/Norwegian government project, which aiming to promote collaboration between heritage conservation and tourism through stakeholder involvement. Five aspects are explored: channels of communication between the heritage and the tourism groups, generating income for heritage conservation and management, involving the local community in decisionmaking, involving the local community in tourism activities, and an assessment of the extent and success of stakeholder collaboration
Urban Blight and Redevelopment: An Urban Participation Path
This paper pays particular attention to one of the many participatory
models present in the landscape of urban and territorial planning. Specifically,
the ACTION PLANNING model was chosen; a model used in Anglo-Saxon
countries to identify the problems and needs of the inhabitants of a given
territory, through the involvement of interested parties or stakeholders. The
model is applied in Sicily, to Villaseta, a small rural settlement, located southwest
of the city of Agrigento, which consists primarily of affordable and social
housing. It is a suburb without identity, left to itself, where – despite the
valuable cultural, historic, scenic, and most importantly human resources – one
notes the presence of degradation, hardship, and social exclusion. The quality of
life is poor, the housing requires serious restoration work, and a large number
of public spaces are unused due to decades of failure in the management
policies of the local government