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Definition(s)

In an environmental context, cultural heritage can be understood as being (1) natural sites with cultural aspects such as cultural landscapee, physical, biological or geological fomations and (2) the intangible cultural heritage of community encompassing traditional knowledges, oral traditions and rituals (drafted: ELC)
The inherited body of beliefs, customs, artistic activity and knowledge that has been transmitted by ancestors. (Source: GEMET/ RHW) /n

Hierarchy

Related terms:
world heritage
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