National Natural and Cultural Heritage – A Source of Sustainable Regional Development

On June 8th, 2023, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization is organizing an academic debate on the subject of “National natural and cultural heritage – a source of sustainable development of the country’s regions”.

The debate will take place in a hybrid format at the Institute’s headquarters, and will address pressing issues of national heritage, such as the dichotomy between the natural and the cultural in approaching the concept of heritage in Romania; the state of conservation and solutions for a better protection of natural heritage; the usefulness of a holistic approach to heritage in the sustainable development of the regions; and interdisciplinary research into the natural and cultural capacities of heritage. These themes and more are included in the “Dobrogea – Witness to the Millennial Civilizations of the Levant” project undertaken by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization for the past five years, in partnership with the “Ovidius” University of Constanța and other collaborators.

Joining the researchers of the Levant Institute for this debate are representatives of the National Ministry of Culture, the National Heritage Institute, the “Ovidius” University of Constanța, the National Institute for Research and Development of Marine Geology and Geo-Ecology (GEOECOMAR) and the “Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology of the Romanian Academy.

 

Programme

10:00 Opening address: Professor Emil Constantinescu, President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization

 

Session on Cultural Heritage

Moderator: Dr Daniela Mihai

10:15 Dr Mihaela Iacob: Romania’s archaeological heritage: between regulation and rescue

10:40 Dr Adriana Vasiliu-Speteanu: The National Centre for the Information and Promotion of Cultural Heritage

11:05 Dr Corina Mihăescu: One representative element from the Intangible World Heritage List – aspects of safeguarding

11:30 Dr Daniela Mihai: Best practices in capitalizing on cultural heritage

12.00 Coffee break

Session on Natural Heritage

Moderator: Professor Dan Grigorescu

12:30 Professor Marius Skolka: The conservation status of Dobrogea’s biological heritage

12:55 Dr Antoaneta Seghedi, Dr Mihaela Melinte, Dr Andrei Briceag, Dr Silviu Rădan, Dr Gabriel Ion, Dr Vlad Apotrosoaiei: Research into geological heritage at the National Institute for Research and Development of Marine Geology and Geo-Ecology. Implications for geo-tourism and protected area legislation.

13:20 Dr Monica Macovei, Dr Dan Grigore: Proposals for the regulation of sites and geological reserves

13:45 Dr Silviu Constantin: Speleological heritage under pressure

14:10 Dr Cetean Valentina, Dr Asimolos Natalia-Silvia, Dr Papp Delia Cristina, Dr Călugăru Mihaela: Decisional support instruments aimed to increase environmental and natural resource sustainability

14:35 Professor Dan Grigorescu: Romania’s geological heritage between ignorance and a lack of knowledge

15:00 Joint discussion of the participants at the two sessions

 

 

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