研究导致世界遗产“濒危”的威胁因素能够为我国世界遗产管理与保护提供重要借鉴。对全球濒危世界遗产威胁因素定量统计发现:武装冲突、管理不力、工程建设是世界文化遗产与世界自然遗产共同面临的三大威胁;世界文化遗产的主要濒危因素还包括城市发展压力、不合适的维修/重建等;世界自然遗产濒危因素则还包括非法偷猎、捕捞,以及林业采伐、农业种植、放牧等农林生产活动等。中国世界遗产面临的首要威胁因素是旅游发展压力,管理问题、城市发展压力、水利工程建设等也较为突出。提出中国世界遗产保护建议:明确遗产旅游价值取向,加强高峰期游客管理,控制旅游设施建设规模;提升管理水平与管理能力,探索世界遗产管理的新体系、新思路;妥善处理好城市发展对世界文化遗产的保护压力,积极预防极端自然灾害的破坏;严格控制世界自然遗产地内的道路建设、水利工程建设等。
World Heritage in Danger refers to the heritages which are recorded on the World Heritage in Dan- ger List. World Heritage in Danger List, established by World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, aims to pro- tect and help the World Heritages which are under threat. At present, there are 38 World Heritages in Danger around the world. This Study will explore these criteria of selecting and the factors resulting in World Heri- tages being in severe danger, which would shed light on the management and protection of World Heritages in China. Based on the State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List provide by the World Heritage Conference of past years, this paper would adopt quantitative approach to analyze those threatening factors causing World Heritages being danger. The finding shows that both the World Cultural Heritages and the World Natural Heritages mainly face the three threats, including armed conflicts, ineffi- cient management and improper engineering construction. For the World Cultural Heritages, the threats also include the pressure of cities' development, irrational maintenance or reconstruction, etc. When it comes to the World Natural Heritages, the threatened factors contain illegal poaching and fishing, excessive deforesta- tion, improper agricultural activities and grazing, etc. There are 43 World Heritages in China, and some of them have been evaluated by the State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List for the last decade.