Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Acronyms
- Introduction
- Section 1 Bridging Nature and Culture
- Section 2 Urbanism and Sustainable Heritage Development
- Section 3 Integrated Planning and Indigenous Engagement
- 12 Homelands of the Mijikenda people: Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests, Kenya
- 13 Reconnection and reconciliation in Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks: Jasper National Park, Canada
- 14 Legacy of a chief: Chief Roi Mata's Domain, Vanuatu
- 15 Living cultural landscape: Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- 16 The strength of a cultural system: Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
- Section 4 Living Heritage and Safeguarding Outstanding Universal Value
- Section 5 More than the Monumental
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Photo Credits
- Index
14 - Legacy of a chief: Chief Roi Mata's Domain, Vanuatu
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Acronyms
- Introduction
- Section 1 Bridging Nature and Culture
- Section 2 Urbanism and Sustainable Heritage Development
- Section 3 Integrated Planning and Indigenous Engagement
- 12 Homelands of the Mijikenda people: Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests, Kenya
- 13 Reconnection and reconciliation in Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks: Jasper National Park, Canada
- 14 Legacy of a chief: Chief Roi Mata's Domain, Vanuatu
- 15 Living cultural landscape: Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- 16 The strength of a cultural system: Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
- Section 4 Living Heritage and Safeguarding Outstanding Universal Value
- Section 5 More than the Monumental
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Photo Credits
- Index
Summary
The aquatic continent
The Pacific is home to extraordinary cultural and biological diversity. In September 1999 the Vanuatu National Museum and Cultural Centre organized a workshop for drafting the Strategic Plan for the Pacific Islands Museums Association. The participants, mainly directors of museums in the Pacific, stayed on for one of the most intensive and significant workshops on the World Heritage Convention convened in the region by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. This was followed by the drafting of the Pacific 2009 Programme (2000–2009) and further developed through regional consultations and the 31st session of the World Heritage Committee Meeting held in Christchurch in 2007 under the chairmanship of Mr Te Heuheu, Paramount Chief of the Ngati Tuwharetoa Maori Tribe of New Zealand. These intensified efforts resulted in an increase in the number of Pacific States Parties to the World Heritage Convention as well as their World Heritage sites.
The Pacific Islands subregion, comprising a third of the world's water, is sometimes called the aquatic continent. Fourteen out of a potential seventeen countries in the Pacific are States Parties to the World Heritage Convention. Most of them have very small populations with over 90 per cent indigenous peoples. About 10 million people speak one-fifth of the world's languages. It is said that the Pacific Islands have the highest rate of indigenous peoples within their national populations of any region in the world, as well as the highest proportion of land that is held under customary ownership or traditional land and sea tenure systems (Regenvanu, 2008).
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- World HeritageBenefits Beyond Borders, pp. 169 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012