Heritage 2012 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development (6/19/2012 - 6/22/2012)

HERITAGE 2012, 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development aims  at establishing a state of the art event regarding the relationships between forms and kinds of heritage and the framework of sustainable development concepts. 
Nowadays, heritage preservation and safeguarding is facing new and complex problems. Degradation of Heritage sites is not any more just a result of materials ageing or environmental actions. Factors such as global and local pollution, climate change, poverty, religion, tourism, commerce, ideologies, war, are now in the cutting edge for the emerging of new approaches, concerns and visions about heritage. 
Heritage 2012, a peer reviewed conference,  is proposed to be a global view on how heritage is being contextualized in relation with the four dimensions of sustainable development: what is being done in terms of research, future directions, methodologies, working tools and other significant aspects of both theoretical and field approaches for heritage preservation and safeguarding. 
Two new chapters are included in this edition: one on Preservation of Historical Buildings and another dedicated to Early Stage Researchers; the first one will deal with the specific tasks of preservation, rehabilitation and maintenance of historical buildings and sites. Key issues are preservation and rehabilitation techniques of structures and materials, adaptive reuse of historical buildings, sustainability goals, assessment tools, among others that night be proposed by the researchers. The second chapter is dedicated to research students willing to share the results of their research projects, namely post-graduation projects and doctoral projects among others.
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 30 November 2011

Futher information
For full details about the conference scope, topics and submission procedures, visit the conference website or contact the Conference Secretariat below.
Secretariat HERITAGE 2012 - Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development
Av. Alcaides de Faria, 377 S12  4750-106 Barcelos, PT
Telephone: + 351 253 815 037 Email: heritage2012@greenlines-institute.org