Area important for traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of#
Broader “Criteria class”
Description#
Areas that preserve ancestral ways of life (in the use of resources, the activities they carry out, etc.), or settlements that are a sample of ancient cultures that inhabited the area.
Source
UNESCO - UNESCO. (2023). WHC.23/01: Operational guidelines for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. Available at: https://whc.unesco.org/en/guidelines/
IMO PSSAs;
SPAMI List - RAC/SPA. (2020). Protocol concerning specially protected areas and biological diversity in the Mediterranean, Annex I: Common criteria for the choice of protected marine and coastal areas that could be included in the SPAMI list. https://www.rac-spa.org/sites/default/files/annex/annex_1_en.pdf