Aurora Petan, The World Heritage Convention and Romania. Case Study: the Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains

Romania's implementation of the World Heritage Convention has significantly failed to protect and manage its inscribed sites, as demonstrated by the case study of the Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains. The site exhibits twofold non-compliance: substantive, due to dereliction with no management system for 20 years and abandonment of five of six component parts, and procedural, stemming from fake reporting and omitted reports to the World Heritage Centre. Civil society intervention recently exposed the true state of the site, prompting reactive monitoring. The study identifies urgent solutions, including legal framework improvement and appropriate heritage policy adoption, to rectify this imbalance.

(Ed.). (2020). Aurora Petan, The World Heritage Convention and Romania. Case Study: the Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains. PLURAL. History, Culture, Society, 8(1), 107–149. Internet Archive. https://doi.org/10.37710/plural.v8i1_7