Communicating heritage values : aligning the global and the local

![CDATA[This paper will explore the need for different approaches both conceptual and practical to current practices of heritage management and the communication of heritage values. The focus is around the need to engage a much broader public in reflection on shared heritages. Processes of engagement seem necessary that foster a sense of shared rights and responsibilities in order that treasured patrimony and custody of heritage values is transmitted to others and to future generations. Questions are raised on how heritage practices, particularly around World Heritage properties, might also embody the aspirations and values of sustainable futures and respect for diversity. A far more nuanced understanding seems necessary of the many messy, entangled and inconvenient relationships that are in play: the relational nature of the interface between economy, place, stakeholders, history, cultural production and the dynamic, fluid and hybrid state of communities, together with the contested views of the heritage values of our natural and cultural worlds. The implications and opportunities for the protection and communication of conservation values, and for the appreciation of tangible and intangible heritage will be discussed.]]