Building Futures, Saving Pasts – Sustainable Development and Heritage Preservation the SPI Way
Building Futures, Saving Pasts – Sustainable Development and Heritage Preservation the SPI Way

Summary/Abstract: Archaeological sites are disappearing at a rapidly accelerating rate. While destruction by ISIS and looting get all the press, the primary causes of cultural heritage loss are economic: commercial and residential development and encroachment, mining, energy, agriculture and looting to name a few. If the source of the problem is economic, so must the solutions be. In this talk, I discuss what types of economic solutions are most likely to succeed and which are destined to fail. I will describe why smaller scale projects incorporating women's empowerment and sustainable community development actually work,and why large scale projects divorced from business reality rarely do. successful programs allow communities to build their futures and save their pasts.

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