About Global Heritage Network - GHN employs Google Earth for early warning and monitoring of threats to major cultural heritage sites.

 

About Global Heritage Network

GHN employs Google Earth for early warning and monitoring of threats to major cultural heritage sites.

 

 

Global Heritage Network (GHN):

An Early Warning and Collaborative Solutions Platform

 

Major archaeological and cultural heritage sites are being damaged and destroyed at an alarming rate around the globe, perhaps nowhere as quickly as in developing countries and regions with limited financial resources or expertise available.

To address this crisis, GHF has established Global Heritage Network (GHN) to:

  • Act as an early warning and threats monitoring system for
        endangered archaeological and cultural heritage sites in
        developing countries.
  • Enable the collaboration of experts and conservation leaders to
        mitigate the threats.
  • Facilitate a holistic, Preservation by Design® process of planning,
        science, community and partnerships.

To achieve this, GHN brings together leading experts in the fields of heritage preservation, archaeological conservation and sustainable development to help save endangered global heritage sites in the developing world.

GHN enables collaboration between site teams, international experts, archaeologists, community and business leaders, and government authorities working together to save global heritage sites through the Preservation by Design® model of integrated Planning, Science, Community and Partnerships.

GHF and GHN also provide critical funding for site monitoring, site conservation assessment, planning and investigation through the Global Heritage Preservation Fellowship Program and Site Monitoring Grants, as well as assistance with technical documentation, mapping and conservation planning for GHF Projects.

At the request of national governments, local communities, professional archaeologists and conservators or other concerned parties, major cultural heritage sites can be added to GHN to provide early warning and threats monitoring for their heritage values.

The GHN Site Database is by no means comprehensive, but focuses on an initial collection of approximately 500 globally significant sites in the developing world with either documented threats or that provide exemplar case studies of site preservation.

Sites in the GHN database are ranked on the following threats scale:

  • Destroyed (Black)
  • Rescue Needed (Red)
  • At Risk (Orange)
  • Stable (Green)
  • Unknown (Gray)


GHN Site (1.0 Beta): ghn.globalheritagefund.org