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UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Scotland)
World Heritage Sites are designated to meet the UK's commitments under the World Heritage Convention. The UK's ratification also extends to its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. These sites are designated for their globally important cultural or natural interest and require appropriate management and protection measures. Natural properties may be terrestrial or marine areas.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2024-07-31
- Identifier
- WHS
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
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Government Category List
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Environmental protection
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Protected sites
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Available under the UK Open Government Licence https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 5 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Environment
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 1996
- End
- 2024
Temporal extent
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1.0
ESRI File Geodatabase
GeoJSON
Geopackage
GML
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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Description
According to the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, a World Heritage Site must have outstanding universal value. It will represent the major stages of the earth's evolutionary history, significant self- perpetuating geological processes, biological evolution or man's interaction with his natural environment. It will contain a superlative natural phenomenon, formations or features or areas of exceptional natural beauty or natural habitats where threatened species of animals or plants of outstanding universal value can survive.
Criteria
A World Heritage Site must be an outstanding example of universal value in terms of such criteria as the World Heritage Committee shall establish and publish in a "World Heritage List" of properties. The Committee may reject nominations for definitive listing if is not satisfied that a site will be adequately protected and may remove from the List sites which have become so damaged they have lost the qualities justifying their original listing.
Designating Authority
The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO (the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage). Role of SNH SNH advises the Secretary of State for Scotland on sites considered to merit designation.
Legislative Context
Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted in 1972 by the General Conference of UNESCO and ratified by the UK Government in 1984. In the UK World Heritage Sites are protected under existing conservation legislation eg planning control and the protection afforded under SSSI and NSA Designation.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 9DB7C41B-6FD4-4C19-AFEA-1DCE27127593 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-08-09T17:31:52
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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Duncan Blake
- Organisation name
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NatureScot
- Position name
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Data Support Officer
- Electronic mail address
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data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot
- Role
- Point of contact
