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Prof. Ana Roders
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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Journal article
Published: 24 July 2021 in Sustainability
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Despite the recognised importance of built heritage for sustainable development, and the multiple tools, recommendations, guidelines, and policies developed in recent years to support decision-making, good sustainable conservation practices often fail to be implemented. Challenges faced by practitioners often relate to external factors, and there is a gap in the understanding of the role of the nature of the designer and the behavioural dimension of the challenges in implementation. This research applies the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to verify how a building passport for sustainable conservation (BPSC) impacts design students’ intentions and actual design decisions towards built heritage conservation. This research aims to ascertain the role of the BPSC to affect attitudes, subjective norms, and intentions and ultimately change conservation behaviours. The results show that this tool has a positive contribution to reinforce existing attitudinal beliefs. Still, no significant changes were found in the overall conservation behaviours, suggesting that beliefs hindering implementation may more often be related to aesthetic reasons, creativity and innovation, and program requirements, than with beliefs regarding the sustainable performance of the building. This study demonstrates that using the TPB to analyse design processes in the context of built heritage is an innovative methodological approach that contributes to a deeper understanding of the psychological factors affecting sustainability and built heritage conservation decisions.

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Joana Dos Santos Gonçalves; Ricardo Mateus; José Silvestre; Ana Roders. Beyond Good Intentions: The Role of the Building Passport for the Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage to Behavioural Change. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8280 .

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Joana Dos Santos Gonçalves, Ricardo Mateus, José Silvestre, Ana Roders. Beyond Good Intentions: The Role of the Building Passport for the Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage to Behavioural Change. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8280.

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Joana Dos Santos Gonçalves; Ricardo Mateus; José Silvestre; Ana Roders. 2021. "Beyond Good Intentions: The Role of the Building Passport for the Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage to Behavioural Change." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8280.

Journal article
Published: 16 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Cultural heritage drives and enables sustainable urban development. The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage creates values while prolonging the lifespan of heritage. Similarly, circular economy creates value while extending the useful life of materials and elements through their reuse. Existing studies on adaptive reuse challenges seldom focus on cultural heritage properties, and they are often identified through the engagement of a limited variety of stakeholders, as compared to the actors normally involved in adaptive reuse. Filling this gap, this paper provides a preliminary baseline of challenges faced by the city of Amsterdam from the perspective of various involved stakeholders, and suggests solutions to address them. The participants represented the public, private, knowledge, and third sectors. The methods used were the following: for data collection, a multidisciplinary workshop using the steps of the Historic Urban Landscape approach as an assessment framework applied to multiple scales on adaptive reuse, and for data analysis, manifest content analysis. The results expanded the range of challenges and solutions reported by previous literature on the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage in content and scale by identifying 61 themes—e.g., knowledge and civic engagement. Tools and stakeholders were also identified. These findings provide a reference for future practice, policymaking, and decision-making, facilitating the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage to capitalize on its potential for sustainable development and circular economy.

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Nadia Pintossi; Deniz Ikiz Kaya; Ana Pereira Roders. Identifying Challenges and Solutions in Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse through the Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Amsterdam. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5547 .

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Nadia Pintossi, Deniz Ikiz Kaya, Ana Pereira Roders. Identifying Challenges and Solutions in Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse through the Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Amsterdam. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5547.

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Nadia Pintossi; Deniz Ikiz Kaya; Ana Pereira Roders. 2021. "Identifying Challenges and Solutions in Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse through the Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Amsterdam." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5547.

Journal article
Published: 29 March 2021 in Sustainability
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Community perceptions and experiences of built heritage are essential in understanding the built heritage and effect in individual and community wellbeing. Subsequently, local perceptions of built heritage directly influence the conservation and heritage-led interventions. This study investigated local perceptions of built heritage in Erbil by assessing responses of 414 participants using a questionnaire survey aiming to identify how built heritage is perceived by the various group samples, exploring local perceptions’ (in)consistencies. Significant differences were found between architects’ and non-architects’ perceptions and related wellbeing. As the groups attribute different values, the results suggest that heritage buildings do not contribute to the wellbeing of non-architects as much as to architects. A contradicting result was found between modern and heritage buildings. This study contributes to the notion of human-centrality of the built environment by assessing local perceptions of built heritage, that, when implemented in urban planning and heritage management, can contribute to the city’s socio-cultural sustainable development.

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Hawar Sektani; Mahmood Khayat; Masi Mohammadi; Ana Roders. Erbil City Built Heritage and Wellbeing: An Assessment of Local Perceptions Using the Semantic Differential Scale. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3763 .

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Hawar Sektani, Mahmood Khayat, Masi Mohammadi, Ana Roders. Erbil City Built Heritage and Wellbeing: An Assessment of Local Perceptions Using the Semantic Differential Scale. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (7):3763.

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Hawar Sektani; Mahmood Khayat; Masi Mohammadi; Ana Roders. 2021. "Erbil City Built Heritage and Wellbeing: An Assessment of Local Perceptions Using the Semantic Differential Scale." Sustainability 13, no. 7: 3763.

Journal article
Published: 24 March 2021 in Sustainability
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Cultural heritage is recognized as a driver and enabler for sustainable development, and its role within the circular economy and circular cities is gaining attention. Its adaptive reuse plays a significant role in this while prolonging the heritage lifespan, preserving the values associated with heritage assets, and creating shared values. The adoption and implementation of the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage practices present challenges at multiple levels. This research aims to identify these challenges and propose solutions to overcome them, considering the post-industrial port city of Rijeka, Croatia, as a case study. The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage practices was assessed through a stakeholder engagement workshop performing a multi-scale analysis using the Historic Urban Landscape approach as an assessment framework. Forty-nine themes were identified by content analysis of the challenges and solutions identified by stakeholders involved in adaptive reuse practices and decision-making in the city. The five most mentioned themes refer to aspects relating to participation, capacity, regulatory systems, economics-finance, and knowledge. These findings provide evidence of challenges for policy- and decision-makers to be addressed in policy-making. Solutions are also suggested to facilitate the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage in the city of Rijeka and similar contexts, such as introducing policies to support participatory decision-making whose absence is a barrier.

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Nadia Pintossi; Deniz Ikiz Kaya; Ana Pereira Roders. Assessing Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse Practices: Multi-Scale Challenges and Solutions in Rijeka. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3603 .

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Nadia Pintossi, Deniz Ikiz Kaya, Ana Pereira Roders. Assessing Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse Practices: Multi-Scale Challenges and Solutions in Rijeka. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (7):3603.

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Nadia Pintossi; Deniz Ikiz Kaya; Ana Pereira Roders. 2021. "Assessing Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse Practices: Multi-Scale Challenges and Solutions in Rijeka." Sustainability 13, no. 7: 3603.

Review
Published: 19 November 2020 in Sustainability
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This research addresses the performance gap between intentions towards a sustainable conservation of built heritage and its actual implementation. Socio-psychological models of human behaviour, such as the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), have been studying this dissonance between intention and behaviour, and allow to recognise latent critical factors. This paper provides a systematic literature review of research publications on the intersection of the topics of human behaviour, heritage, and sustainability. It aims to analyse how the TPB has been used in the field of sustainable conservation of built heritage. The studies are categorised according to the type of heritage, main actors targeted, aims, and methodology. A total of 140 publications were analysed. The results show a recent field of research. In the domain of built heritage conservation, behaviour is commonly addressed as a synonym of performance, targeting the building itself. Most publications relating socio-psychological constructs of behaviour and heritage sustainability can be found in the tourism and hospitality field, focusing on tourists’ and residents’ behaviours. The review shows that practitioners are still absent from the literature. However, research addressing other stakeholders shows that the theoretical framework can play an important role in the implementation of sustainable conservation practices in the built heritage.

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Joana Gonçalves; Ricardo Mateus; José Silvestre; Ana Roders. Going beyond Good Intentions for the Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9649 .

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Joana Gonçalves, Ricardo Mateus, José Silvestre, Ana Roders. Going beyond Good Intentions for the Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9649.

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Joana Gonçalves; Ricardo Mateus; José Silvestre; Ana Roders. 2020. "Going beyond Good Intentions for the Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9649.

Earlycite article
Published: 06 April 2020 in International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation
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PurposeObsolescence is a decline or loss of utility of an object, building or product. Different types of building obsolescence decrease buildings’ utility and shorten their service life. The purpose of this paper is identification of building obsolescence types and the relevant factors that affect buildings to become obsolete. It is also intended to categorise building obsolescence types to provide a contribution towards increasing building service life and delivering sustainability.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review is applied to conduct this research. It follows five steps: (1) formulating the research question; (2) locating studies; (3) selecting and evaluating relevant studies; (4) analysing the findings; (5) reporting and making use of the results.FindingsVia this study, it is revealed that there are 33 types of building obsolescence. They are clustered in 10 categories regarding their conceptual and causing aspects and are presented based on their recurrence in the literature. According to the findings, economic obsolescence (including economic, financial and market obsolescence types) and functional obsolescence (including functional, use and utility obsolescence types) are the most remarkable categories.Originality/valueInvestigating the literature makes it clear that building obsolescence types have been studied intermittently with infrequent profound exploration of the relationship between them. This paper presents a comprehensive identification of building obsolescence types and introduces obsolescence categories that classify connected obsolescence types. It is a new framework for further studies on building obsolescence to find more effective prevention strategies to mitigate social, economic and environmental consequences of building obsolescence.

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Mohammad Pourebrahimi; Seyed Rahman Eghbali; Ana Pereira Roders. Identifying building obsolescence: towards increasing buildings' service life. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation 2020, 38, 635 -652.

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Mohammad Pourebrahimi, Seyed Rahman Eghbali, Ana Pereira Roders. Identifying building obsolescence: towards increasing buildings' service life. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation. 2020; 38 (5):635-652.

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Mohammad Pourebrahimi; Seyed Rahman Eghbali; Ana Pereira Roders. 2020. "Identifying building obsolescence: towards increasing buildings' service life." International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation 38, no. 5: 635-652.

Journal article
Published: 10 March 2020 in Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development
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PurposeThe main aim of this paper is to determine how well the UNESCO 2011 Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (hereafter, the HUL approach) is understood by the academic community today. It will review relevant research, highlight shortcomings regarding the HUL concept and approach and explore how well the six proposed steps are being considered when implementing the HUL approach.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents and discusses the results of a systematic review of 140 peer-reviewed publications, published in international academic journals between 2008 and 2019 and available in databases such as WoS and Scopus, such as journal articles, book chapters and books. More specifically, this research takes the six-step process as its theoretical framework in order to understand if the six steps are being followed in the case studies where the HUL approach has been implemented. Following this, it assesses gaps in the HUL concept and approach. The paper explores the HUL implementation management process, investigating what is being done, how it is being done and who is involved.FindingsThe concept ‘Historic Urban Landscape’ has been used in research since 2008. However, the first case studies implementing the HUL approach were not published until 2013. While there is an abundance of theoretical research in relation to the HUL concept and approach from different perspectives and to varying degrees of depth, the case studies which practically demonstrate the HUL approach and its six steps are scarce. This paper will also show how feasible the steps are and which are used the most.Originality/valueThis research demonstrates if the HUL approach is being understood in the academic field and if the implementation of the six steps is being reflected in the literature. This approach will reveal how these steps are being implemented and if this is having an effect on the heritage planning process.

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Julia Rey-Pérez; Ana Pereira Roders. Historic urban landscape. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 2020, 10, 233 -258.

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Julia Rey-Pérez, Ana Pereira Roders. Historic urban landscape. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development. 2020; 10 (3):233-258.

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Julia Rey-Pérez; Ana Pereira Roders. 2020. "Historic urban landscape." Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 10, no. 3: 233-258.

Journal article
Published: 06 January 2020 in Habitat International
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Community participation is a key part of heritage management. However, in practice, unlike natural heritage, the nature of community participation within cultural heritage is seldom assessed, nor are there theoretical frameworks developed to baseline such assessments. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper developed and tested an assessment framework, to assess community participation within cultural heritage. Based on the conceptualisation of community participation from heritage management policies, a literature review was conducted to develop an assessment framework, including four criteria and 23 indicators. This assessment framework was tested on the management practices of 36 Chinese cultural heritage properties inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List from 1987 to 2018. Using content analysis as a method, this research applied this assessment framework to UNESCO documents, reporting on the state-of-the-practice of heritage management as applied to Chinese World Heritage. The results provide an overview of the current situation on how community participation is positioned within World Heritage management in China. Several World Heritage properties in China have reported relatively high community participation in examples such as Honghe Hani Rice Terraces and Kulangsu. However, most of them demonstrate minimal community participation, such as the Yungang Grottoes and Lushan National Park. Moreover, the assessment framework of community participation in heritage management has been extended and improved, which is relevant to heritage management practices worldwide.

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Ji Li; Sukanya Krishnamurthy; Ana Pereira Roders; Pieter van Wesemael. State-of-the-practice: Assessing community participation within Chinese cultural World Heritage properties. Habitat International 2020, 96, 102107 .

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Ji Li, Sukanya Krishnamurthy, Ana Pereira Roders, Pieter van Wesemael. State-of-the-practice: Assessing community participation within Chinese cultural World Heritage properties. Habitat International. 2020; 96 ():102107.

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Ji Li; Sukanya Krishnamurthy; Ana Pereira Roders; Pieter van Wesemael. 2020. "State-of-the-practice: Assessing community participation within Chinese cultural World Heritage properties." Habitat International 96, no. : 102107.

Journal article
Published: 07 November 2019 in Cities
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Community participation is an essential issue in heritage management. The international heritage organisation ICCROM published a guidance document discussing people-centred approaches to heritage management in 2015. Cultural heritage management is recommended to be carried out through a community participation process. Despite the growing literature on community participation in cultural heritage management, little research has been done on comparing Chinese to international approaches. Although in China several pilot projects have conducted effective community participation and achieved excellent outcomes. This paper aims to fill this gap by providing an overview that compares and discusses the similarities and differences between Chinese and international approaches. A systematic literature review of the state-of-the-art was conducted to explore these differences based on four themes: engaged communities, participatory methods, degrees of participation and steps taken within cultural heritage management. This review concludes both Chinese and international practices seek to collaborate with and empower local communities in their approaches, with Chinese pilot cases, such as Tianzifang in Shanghai. However, in general, Chinese cultural heritage management is government-led, in which community participation is happening to a minimal degree. China is encouraged to learn from international practices when developing contextualised management approaches, to better face the challenges of rapid urbanisation.

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Ji Li; Sukanya Krishnamurthy; Ana Pereira Roders; Pieter van Wesemael. Community participation in cultural heritage management: A systematic literature review comparing Chinese and international practices. Cities 2019, 96, 102476 .

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Ji Li, Sukanya Krishnamurthy, Ana Pereira Roders, Pieter van Wesemael. Community participation in cultural heritage management: A systematic literature review comparing Chinese and international practices. Cities. 2019; 96 ():102476.

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Ji Li; Sukanya Krishnamurthy; Ana Pereira Roders; Pieter van Wesemael. 2019. "Community participation in cultural heritage management: A systematic literature review comparing Chinese and international practices." Cities 96, no. : 102476.

Journal article
Published: 02 March 2019 in Frontiers of Architectural Research
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Efficient interaction between art and technology enabled Islamic architecture to actively experience early globalization, but today׳s separation between these domains and technological hegemony have presented challenges to Islamic architecture. Accordingly, this research was aimed at illuminating art and technology interactions in Islamic architecture during early globalization when it flourished along with Christian architecture. To this end, logical reasoning and qualitative data analysis were performed in parallel on 12 chains of mostly worship-oriented artworks, such as mosques and churches. The results indicated that art and technology interactions in Islamic and Christian architecture were underlain by the same nature and sequential pattern of beginning from primitive technology and ending with innovative technology (art). The cultural and technological value of these architectural styles eventually crossed geographical boundaries. Therefore, the beneficial interactions between art and technology enabled Islamic and Christian architecture to participate in globalization through the conveyance of their value to other regions even as differences existed in the measures implemented for such transmission.

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Maziar Asefi; Safa Salkhi Khasraghi; Ana Pereira Roders. Art and technology interactions in Islamic and Christian context: Historical approach to architectural globalization. Frontiers of Architectural Research 2019, 8, 66 -79.

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Maziar Asefi, Safa Salkhi Khasraghi, Ana Pereira Roders. Art and technology interactions in Islamic and Christian context: Historical approach to architectural globalization. Frontiers of Architectural Research. 2019; 8 (1):66-79.

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Maziar Asefi; Safa Salkhi Khasraghi; Ana Pereira Roders. 2019. "Art and technology interactions in Islamic and Christian context: Historical approach to architectural globalization." Frontiers of Architectural Research 8, no. 1: 66-79.

Chapter
Published: 08 February 2019 in Reshaping Urban Conservation
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Eight years after the adoption of the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL approach) by UNESCO member states, governments worldwide no longer doubt their sustainable development is dependent on heritage, cultural and natural, and are united to strengthen the efforts to protect and safeguard this heritage. What are governments doing? What resources are they listing as heritage? Who is involved? How? What are the results? These are questions that are fuelling the curiosity of many, in science and society, but only a few, leading innovative practices in heritage planning, including those exploring the implementation of the HUL approach, have started to answer them. This chapter discusses the state of the art, based on a literature review, contextualizing the experiences and key lessons of these leaders so far, active in the global diffusion of heritage planning innovation. Results revealed that even though there has been great progress in exploring the broadness in scope, which is still expected to escalate in the upcoming years, there is a strong difference between goals and actions when it comes to the implementation of the HUL approach.

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Ana Pereira Roders. The Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Action: Eight Years Later. Reshaping Urban Conservation 2019, 21 -54.

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Ana Pereira Roders. The Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Action: Eight Years Later. Reshaping Urban Conservation. 2019; ():21-54.

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Ana Pereira Roders. 2019. "The Historic Urban Landscape Approach in Action: Eight Years Later." Reshaping Urban Conservation , no. : 21-54.

Journal article
Published: 23 October 2018 in Journal of Cultural Heritage
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Social media provides big data for researchers to perform real-time analytics, as digital ethnographers, on what places and attributes people value in the historic urban landscapes they live or visit, enough to share with their social network. However, the use of these data to further our knowledge on heritage and their values, or to support heritage planning and management is still very limited. This article proposes a methodology for the analysis of viewpoints location-view scenes-tags data for photos posted on Flickr to provide insights into all facets of the perceived landscape character that identifies people-centered heritage at the city level. The analysis visualizes convergence and divergence between locals’ and tourists’ preferences. It also reveals heritage concerns in the context of daily-life practices and everyday landscape, as well as political and religious concerns in post-conflict areas. Additionally, the analysis questions the limits of heritage areas and categories used for identifying cultural values. Results showed that the different analyses complement one another to eventually provide insights into everyday encounters with the historic urban landscape. They also show the difference between experts’ and users’ documentation and characterization languages when defining heritage. When the first apply domain-specific classification models, the latter express personal reflections without following a specific hierarchy or a closed categorical system. It is believed that the outcome can help heritage scholars to further our understanding for the diversity of heritage places and attributes, as well as, heritage professionals, to inform decision-making processes in heritage planning and management on both experts’ and users’ understanding of heritage.

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Manal Ginzarly; Ana Pereira Roders; Jacques Teller. Mapping historic urban landscape values through social media. Journal of Cultural Heritage 2018, 36, 1 -11.

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Manal Ginzarly, Ana Pereira Roders, Jacques Teller. Mapping historic urban landscape values through social media. Journal of Cultural Heritage. 2018; 36 ():1-11.

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Manal Ginzarly; Ana Pereira Roders; Jacques Teller. 2018. "Mapping historic urban landscape values through social media." Journal of Cultural Heritage 36, no. : 1-11.

Article
Published: 17 March 2018 in Sustainability
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Within the urban context, heritage conservation has been acknowledged as fundamental for sustainable development. This paper address the need to develop methodologies that enable understanding of the dynamics between these two fields that for long were regarded as opposing practices. The research crosses disciplinary boundaries through a mixed methodology that identifies 27 urban development common indicators as factors that are affecting the conservation of 69 World Heritage Cities (WHC). Indicators, which were selected from global urban monitoring tools, were analyzed within UNESCO State-of-Conservation reporting system. Results reveal key trends on urban factors assessed as a SWOT analysis in relation to the management of WHC. We argue that urban indicators can facilitate the understanding of development impacts in cultural heritage conservation, across the social, economic, and environmental dimensions. This paper contributes to the debate on the ability of indicators to bridge interdisciplinary and methodological issues that were related to common conceptualizations between urban development and heritage conservation and sustainability. The conceptual approach that is presented has proven to offer an empirical basis for a monitoring practice that fosters the sustainable management of urban heritage, which in the light of the New Development Agenda and the gaps in the state-of-the-art, is very much needed.

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Paloma Guzman; Bernard Colenbrander; Ana R. Pereira Roders. Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis. Sustainability 2018, 10, 853 .

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Paloma Guzman, Bernard Colenbrander, Ana R. Pereira Roders. Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (3):853.

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Paloma Guzman; Bernard Colenbrander; Ana R. Pereira Roders. 2018. "Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis." Sustainability 10, no. 3: 853.

Journal article
Published: 12 September 2016 in Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal
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Purpose Earlier studies assume that historical dwellings and post-war dwellings in particular, are less sustainable than modern dwellings, justifying its demolition. Over time, historical buildings have been transformed and their energy performance improved. However, there is little known on the energy performance of historical dwellings. The purpose of this paper is to unveil the role of historical dwellings and its transformations in improving urban sustainability. Design/methodology/approach In this research, historical dwellings (built=1970) are distinguished in listed and unlisted dwellings. Three cities were selected as case study – Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam – and three post-war neighborhoods – New-West, Mariahoeve and Ommoord. This research uses the difference in energy label (original vs current performance) to discuss the transformations of dwellings: comparing modern and historical; post-war and other historical; and listed and unlisted dwellings. Findings Findings reveal that historical and post-war dwellings have great potentials to raise the energy performance e.g. by applying after insulation and renewable energy sources. Furthermore, The Hague and its post-war neighborhood Mariahoeve have a considerably lower energy performance. Further research could relate the raising of energy performance to the cultural significance of such dwellings, to better discuss the role of attributes and their transformation to raising energy performance. Originality/value This paper addresses the knowledge gap of the current energy performance of historical dwellings, by presenting and discussing its role in improving urban sustainability.

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Ltf Laurie Van Krugten; Lmc Luuk Hermans; Lisanne Havinga; Ana Pereira Roders; Hl Henk Schellen. Raising the energy performance of historical dwellings. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 2016, 27, 740 -755.

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Ltf Laurie Van Krugten, Lmc Luuk Hermans, Lisanne Havinga, Ana Pereira Roders, Hl Henk Schellen. Raising the energy performance of historical dwellings. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal. 2016; 27 (6):740-755.

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Ltf Laurie Van Krugten; Lmc Luuk Hermans; Lisanne Havinga; Ana Pereira Roders; Hl Henk Schellen. 2016. "Raising the energy performance of historical dwellings." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 27, no. 6: 740-755.

Journal article
Published: 19 March 2015 in Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research
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“UNESCO to blame” is a trend often observed in scholarly works. In those studies UNESCO is accused to privilege Eurocentric standards on heritage conservation. Is this reality or an easy escape? Can this trend be noted in other UNESCO reference texts? This article seeks to answer this question by studying the two main inscription-based conventions and their contribution to heritage management, while performing a data analysis on the countries behind these conventions, and their roles over time. The 1972 World Heritage Convention and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage are, therefore, taken as case studies. Based on the results, this paper elaborates on a critical analysis, distinguishing what UNESCO, as well as, Europe can eventually be blamed for and what may be used by the countries as an easy escape. This paper ends setting a research agenda to raise awareness and generate factual knowledge on the role of supranational governance in setting standards in global ethics, in particular, to guideline heritage conservation.

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Ana Pereira Roders; Anna Beatriz Grigolon. UNESCO TO BLAME: Reality or Easy Escape? Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 2015, 9, 50 .

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Ana Pereira Roders, Anna Beatriz Grigolon. UNESCO TO BLAME: Reality or Easy Escape? Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research. 2015; 9 (1):50.

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Ana Pereira Roders; Anna Beatriz Grigolon. 2015. "UNESCO TO BLAME: Reality or Easy Escape?" Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 9, no. 1: 50.

Journal article
Published: 17 November 2014 in Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development
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Purpose – This paper is an editorial to JCHMSD's Volume 4 Issue 2 and its selection of papers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents some of the ongoing discussions at the international level on the establishment of new United Nations global objectives for development, known as the Sustainable Development Goals, which should guide progress in the world for the next 15 years. Two agendas for wise heritage management are discussed, one for the protection of nature and the other for better use of culture, which taken together could make a significant difference in stewarding the world's precious resources. Findings – While the previous Millennium Development Goals, established in 2000 as a set of eight goals with 19 targets, have been criticised as too broad, the current proposed Sustainable Development Goals, containing 17 goals and 169 targets to measure progress, are perhaps too many and too detailed and thereby risk failure of implementation. It also illustrates the ambition and the challenges of a pluralistic world with widely divergent priorities, reinforcing the idea of context-specificity of heritage conservation and resources management. Originality/value – This editorial further extends on the discussion that was started in the inaugural Editorial, of 2011, which stated that “the international debate is expected to intensify as regards a re-orientation of the concept of sustainability and to re-emphasise its meaning in clear and unambiguous terms” (JCHMSD, 1.1:9).

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Ron Van Oers; A Ana Pereira Roders. Aligning agendas for sustainable development in the post 2015 world. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 2014, 4, 122 -132.

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Ron Van Oers, A Ana Pereira Roders. Aligning agendas for sustainable development in the post 2015 world. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development. 2014; 4 (2):122-132.

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Ron Van Oers; A Ana Pereira Roders. 2014. "Aligning agendas for sustainable development in the post 2015 world." Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 4, no. 2: 122-132.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2014 in Antiquity
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Ana Pereira Roders. Cultural heritage management: power, values and identity - Christina Luke & Morag Kersel. US cultural diplomacy and archaeology. Soft power, hard heritage. xi+169 pages, 5 tables. 2013. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-415-64549-2 hardback £80. - Robert J. Shepherd & Larry Yu. Heritage management, tourism, and governance in China. xii+90 pages, 21 colour illustrations, 3 tables. 2013. New York: Springer, 978-1-4614-6917-0 paperback $49.95. - Sophia Labadi. UNESCO, cultural heritage and Outstanding Universal Value. Value-based analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions. xi+191 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. 2013. Lanham (MD): Altamira; 978-0-7591-2256-7 hardback £51.95. Antiquity 2014, 88, 663 -666.

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Ana Pereira Roders. Cultural heritage management: power, values and identity - Christina Luke & Morag Kersel. US cultural diplomacy and archaeology. Soft power, hard heritage. xi+169 pages, 5 tables. 2013. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-415-64549-2 hardback £80. - Robert J. Shepherd & Larry Yu. Heritage management, tourism, and governance in China. xii+90 pages, 21 colour illustrations, 3 tables. 2013. New York: Springer, 978-1-4614-6917-0 paperback $49.95. - Sophia Labadi. UNESCO, cultural heritage and Outstanding Universal Value. Value-based analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions. xi+191 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. 2013. Lanham (MD): Altamira; 978-0-7591-2256-7 hardback £51.95. Antiquity. 2014; 88 (340):663-666.

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Ana Pereira Roders. 2014. "Cultural heritage management: power, values and identity - Christina Luke & Morag Kersel. US cultural diplomacy and archaeology. Soft power, hard heritage. xi+169 pages, 5 tables. 2013. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-0-415-64549-2 hardback £80. - Robert J. Shepherd & Larry Yu. Heritage management, tourism, and governance in China. xii+90 pages, 21 colour illustrations, 3 tables. 2013. New York: Springer, 978-1-4614-6917-0 paperback $49.95. - Sophia Labadi. UNESCO, cultural heritage and Outstanding Universal Value. Value-based analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions. xi+191 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. 2013. Lanham (MD): Altamira; 978-0-7591-2256-7 hardback £51.95." Antiquity 88, no. 340: 663-666.

Journal article
Published: 13 May 2014 in Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development
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Purpose – This paper is an editorial to JCHMSD's Volume 4, Issue 1 and its selection of papers. The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the first three years of editorship, reporting a critical self-assessment on the progress achieved today in relation to JCHMSD's initial aims and objectives, embedded in the state-of-the-art. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds upon editorship observations exchanged among the editorial team over the last three years and a literature review on the 42 papers published in JCHMSD. The literature review focuses primarily on: purposes and design/methodology/approaches. The ways forward sets a research agenda, challenging those contributing to the unexplored questions with their research and/or practices, to join the JCHMSD community and enable a broader audience to, at least, learn from them. Findings – JCHMSD's three aims have been achieved. The journal is publishing innovative research and practices, relating cultural heritage management and sustainable development, developing both skills and knowledge, with contributions from authors worldwide. A global aim being targeted by a rich variety of disciplines and approaches, from factual economy to critical anthropology. Approaches so far have been primarily qualitative, exploring pilot projects or case studies. Unfortunately, some conclusions of the papers lacked self-reflection, contextualizing findings to the explored case study, methods and sources. Originality/value – More than providing answers or secret recipes, this paper aims to raise questions and draft a research agenda of relevance for JCHMSD's readership, reflecting on the state-of-the-art and selected papers in relation to their purposes and design/methodology/approaches. It also positions 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape in this challenging discussion.

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Ana Pereira Roders; Ron Van Oers. Wedding cultural heritage and sustainable development: three years after. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 2014, 4, 2 -15.

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Ana Pereira Roders, Ron Van Oers. Wedding cultural heritage and sustainable development: three years after. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development. 2014; 4 (1):2-15.

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Ana Pereira Roders; Ron Van Oers. 2014. "Wedding cultural heritage and sustainable development: three years after." Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 4, no. 1: 2-15.

Article
Published: 01 January 2014 in Change Over Time
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Experts have been gathering for decades to discuss their ideals and experiences in heritage management. One of their objectives is the search for common ground and the clarification of best practice guidelines, to be endorsed and applied worldwide. However, in the past half-century, the reality and ideals of cultural heritage management have shifted significantly. This paper will reveal and discuss how this shift is evident in the field’s professional guidelines. What triggered this shift in heritage theory? And how did the concept of heritage evolve over the past decades? First, a literature review will discuss current theory on this topic. This is complemented by a comparative analysis of seven key doctrinal documents. The selection ranges from the Venice Charter (ICOMOS, 1964) to the Valletta Principles (ICOMOS, 2011). The content will be systematically analyzed using a descriptiveanalytical method from the narrative tradition in evidence-based policy evaluation research (Pawson 2002 [see reference 26]). Results are presented in a summary matrix, tracing and comparing the evolution of what is considered heritage and why. A correlation of the results will reveal triggers and ideologies behind this shift in the heritage concept over time. It will also provide some recommendations to shape the agendas for research in heritage theory, policy, and practice in relation to heritage management and sustainable development.

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Loes Veldpaus; Ana Pereira Roders. Learning from a Legacy: Venice to Valletta. Change Over Time 2014, 4, 244 -263.

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Loes Veldpaus, Ana Pereira Roders. Learning from a Legacy: Venice to Valletta. Change Over Time. 2014; 4 (2):244-263.

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Loes Veldpaus; Ana Pereira Roders. 2014. "Learning from a Legacy: Venice to Valletta." Change Over Time 4, no. 2: 244-263.

Book chapter
Published: 04 October 2013 in Vernacular Heritage and Earthen Architecture
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A Rodrigues; Ana Pereira Roders. Relating religious and vernacular architecture. Vernacular Heritage and Earthen Architecture 2013, 519 -524.

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A Rodrigues, Ana Pereira Roders. Relating religious and vernacular architecture. Vernacular Heritage and Earthen Architecture. 2013; ():519-524.

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A Rodrigues; Ana Pereira Roders. 2013. "Relating religious and vernacular architecture." Vernacular Heritage and Earthen Architecture , no. : 519-524.