Johari Hussein AMAR
(Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia)
Keywords: conservation, cultural heritage, sustainability, Tanzania, Australia
Abstract:
Although conservation guidelines and policies are applied internationally, no consistent approach exists because the conservation of cultural built heritage is interdisciplinary. This sector comprises planners, policy makers, architects, archaeologists, historians, and others who share a common understanding of conservation, but whose values differ. This research aims to examine the perspective of stakeholders on key issues that motivate and act as barriers in the conservation of cultural built heritage.
Several projects and papers published in recent years contribute to and support a common understanding of cultural built heritage conservation practices. However, these tend to focus on the perspective of cultural built heritage values, the history of conservation and its impact on preserving built heritage materials. Therefore, there is little knowledge regarding what actually drives conservation of cultural built heritage.
This study will conduct qualitative research via focus groups. This technique is an effective tool for obtaining data directly from a wide range of stakeholders in the cultural built heritage sector. The results and findings from the research will increase knowledge, thus assisting stakeholders’ future decision-making processes and actions for conservation. The research aims to develop recommendations that build upon existing understandings of and approaches to the conservation of cultural built heritage.