UNESCO and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee have issued new guidance for assessing impacts from projects that could potentially affect the planet’s most precious heritage places. Designed specifically for heritage management institutions, governments, and project developers, it aims to help find the best possible solutions to meet both conservation priorities and development needs...

The Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessments in a World Heritage contextprovides a methodology and a set of easy-to-use tools for elaborating impact assessments to the best practice currently existing for World Heritage. It helps to identify and define the values and attributes of the site concerned, whether it is a cultural, natural or mixed cultural-natural site. It explains the process for evaluating potential impacts, and finding appropriate mitigation measures and alternative options.

-UNESCO World Heritage Centre. 2020. “Guidance And Toolkit For Impact Assessments In A World Heritage Context.” UNESCO. 2020. https://whc.unesco.org/en/guidance-toolkit-impact-assessments/. Archived at: https://perma.cc/4SWE-TEVJ

Court, Sarah, UNESCO, et. al. 2022. Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessments in a World Heritage Context. Paris: UNESCO Publishing.

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