The name is absent

for a socially useful purpose. The Charter outlines the basic doctrine of what is now accepted to be
an appropriate approach to dealing with historic buildings.³

a - CH as an asset to preserve
and promote

b - CH and identity as a
resource for development

TERRITORIAL COMPONENT

Figure 1 Conceptualisation of cultural heritage and operationalisation for the management
of development processes

A fundamental question remains whether heritage is property (“objects”), or a social, intellectual,
and spiritual inheritance. Human actions, our ideas, customs and knowledge, are arguably the most
important aspects of heritage (Harrison, 2005: 1-10). Cultural resource managers seek to understand
and conserve these aspects through work on landscapes, places, structures, artefacts, and archives,
and through work with individuals and the community (Davison 2000; Aplin 2002). Moving from
the field of collection to that of policy and planning, the declaration following UNESCO’s World
Conference on Cultural Policies (Mexico, 1982) states that “... culture consists of all distinctive,
spiritual and material, intellectual and emotional features which characterise a society or social
group”, thus getting closer to the second conceptualisation of heritage as resource.

Another significant subdivision is that between tangible heritage, including cultural assets and
cultural and natural landscapes, and intangible heritage, which focuses on immaterial expressions of
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