ANALYSIS OF MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE PLACES IN TÜRKİYE

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2023-4

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Ulusan, Evrim

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Management plans are spatial strategic plans that set out the clear ideas, policies, principles, actions, and priorities to be followed in heritage management. What a management plan expected to accomplish ultimately is coordination and harmony between policies, institutions and actions in the field of heritage conservation in order for better use of available resources in an efficient and coordinated way, and in line with the site needs and management capacities. This approach developed as a tool in heritage management in the 1970s, was integrated into the Turkish cultural heritage conservation law quite belatedly due to the requirements imposed by international accords, notably the World Heritage Convention. However, the experience so far demonstrated that production of these plans has not delivered the anticipated and desired impact on the ground, at least not in full or in all circumstances. The research aimed to make an analysis of the Turkish experience with the cultural heritage management planning since 2004 to reveal the whys of the visible failures, and achievements; and, to define the circumstances determining the quality in the Turkish context. Besides, the invention of a methodology to assess the quality of a heritage management plan is an authentic contribution of this study to the field. The developed methodology is applied to the 18 approved management plans. The research found that the Turkish experience has achieved 36,7% overall quality in cultural heritage management planning while it scores highest in process design, but fails in establishing effective, responsible and sustainable governance structures.

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Heritage management plans, Cultural heritage, Site management, Heritage governance, Türkiye

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102784

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis