Seventeenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

Through the discourses of conservation of cultural heritage, the living heritage approach highlights the need for reclamation of local community membership in managing heritage sites, through shared consensus of local and institutional knowledge systems, which govern cultural values and ongoing livelihood practices at the grass root levels/on ground. This paper examines the applicability of the living heritage approach (as per ICCROM) in the case of Rani No Hajiro to build an efficient and an incentive driven approach towards inclusive and participatory built heritage management. To pursue such an analysis we have considered literature review such as Throsby, Polanyi and contingent valuation for assessment and valuation of cultural services. Based on such an analysis, we propose the cultural value created and heightened through interactions between core and peripheral communities in heritage contexts can translate into mutually beneficial management frameworks that facilitate cultural consumption on the one hand and sustained economic redistribution of profits on the other.