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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Explaining the world heritage list: an empirical study |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | No |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | International Review of Economics |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1863-4613 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Number | 1 |
| Page Range | 1 - 19 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Abstract Text | The UNESCO World Heritage List is designed to protect the global heritage. We show that, with respect to countries and continents, the existing World Heritage List is highly imbalanced. Major econometric determinants of this imbalance are historical GDP, historical population, area in square kilometers of a country, and number of years of high civilization. Surprisingly, economic and political factors, such as membership on the UN Security Council, which should be unrelated to the value of a country’s heritage and therefore should have no impact, are shown to have a systematic impact on the composition of the World Heritage List. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1007/s12232-013-0174-4 |
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| Additional Information | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |