Resumen de Ilha de Moçambique:: conserving and managing world heritage in the developing world

Vanessa Dantas e Sá, Charles Mather

• The problem of managing and maintaining cultural and natural sites inscribed in the list of World Heritage Sites (WHS) is a global one. Yet the challenge of maintaining the "outstanding universal value" of WHS is almost certainly more pressing in the developing world. This article draws from the experience of Mozambique's WHS, the Island of Mozambique, to reflect on the challenges of meeting the goal of outstanding universal value in a context of poverty and postconflict reconstruction. We contrast proposals to rehabilitate the island's cultural heritage produced in the late 1990s with more recent conservation efforts, in the context of the broad goal of addressing human settlement challenges while also preserving the past.