Spatial Distribution and Temporal Evolvement of World Heritages in Danger
World heritage in danger means world heritage which is listed in World Heritage in Danger List. Analyzing the spatial distribution and temporal evolvement of world heritages in danger can provide important reference of managing and protecting world heritage. The results are obtained as follows: 1) The correlativity between the intercontinental number of world heritages in danger and its level of economic development is negative. The number of world heritages in danger and the rate of endangered world heritage in Africa is lager than other places. 2) Cultural world heritages in danger are mainly distributed in Asia and natural world heritages in danger are mainly distributed in Africa. 3) World heritages in danger are mainly distributed in low-latitude area and mid-latitudes of northern hemisphere. 4) The evolution characterization of world heritage in danger can be roughly divided into three phases since 1978 that slow growth phase (1978 -1991), rapid growth phase (1992 - 2004) and fluctuation phase(2005 - ). 5) The type structure of World Heritage in Danger List is relatively balanced, which means natural world heritage is more likely to be endangered. 6) In contrast to natural world heritage, the endangered rate of cultural world heritage is stable and its value is lower, this phenomenon is possibly associated with that the natural world heritage is mainly endangered by human and the number of natural world heritage is relatively smaller than that of cultural world heritage. 7) Compared to the small change of the number of world heritages in danger in Europe,North America and South America,it is different that there are obviously fluctuates for the number of world heritages in danger in Asia and Africa. It is concluded that the obvious fluctuation of the number of World Heritage in Danger List since 1990s is due to Asia and Africa.
world heritage in dangerspatial distributiontemporal evolvement
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