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Australia ICOMOS is the peak cultural heritage conservation body in Australia. It is a branch of the United Nations-sponsored International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), a non-government professional organization promoting expertise in the conservation of cultural heritage.〔Susan Thompson, (''Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning'' ) (Cambridge University Press, 2007)〕 Its secretariat is based at the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University. ==Formation and role== Australia ICOMOS was formed in 1976 and is one of over 100 current ICOMOS national committees. ICOMOS was formed in 1965 to advise UNESCO in the assessment of sites proposed for the World Heritage List. Membership of Australia ICOMOS comprises over 650 members, managed by an Executive Committee of 15 people who are elected from the membership. Several Australia ICOMOS members are also represented on various ICOMOS International Scientific Committees, and expert committees and boards in Australia.〔(Australia ICOMOS Website )〕 It plays an important role in co-ordinating advocacy activities to raise the profile of Australia's cultural heritage.〔( National Trust Australia, Media Release 3 August 2011 )〕 The first meeting which led to the formation of Australia ICOMOS was in Melbourne on 20 October 1976, and the first ICOMOS conference was in Beechworth in 1978, where they devised a committee to work up a local version of the Venice Charter. The actual ICOMOS meeting where the committee's draft was provisionally endorsed was in the town of Burra in 1979.〔〔(Australia ICOMOS > The Burra Charter ) Full text of the 1999 revised version of the Burra Charter. Retrieved 16 August 2011〕〔 Australia ICOMOS played the pivotal role in developing and Burra Charter, regarded as the best-practice standard for cultural heritage management in Australia, which has influenced subsequent heritage legislation and conservation guidelines and practices in Australia.〔〔Marta De la Torre, Getty Conservation Institute, (''Heritage Values in Site Management: Four Case Studies'' ) (Getty Publications, 2005)〕 Australia ICOMOS has also been responsible for producing the Australia State of the Environment Report (SoE), to advise the Minister for Environment on ''...the current condition of the Australian environment, the pressures on it and the drivers of those pressures.''〔(Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Australia ICOMOS State of the environment 2011 workshop, summary notes DECEMBER 2011 )〕 Australia ICOMOS also organises an annual national conference on themes relevant to conservation and heritage in Australia and South East Asia, often on a specific heritage and conservation theme for example on the Australian Capital city's 100th anniversary in 2012.〔(ICOMOS National Conference, 'Imagined Pasts, Imagined Futures' )〕 Recent collaboration between the Chinese government, the Getty Conservation Institute and Australia ICOMOS has seen the export of Australian conservation expertise in developing China Principles, ''...the Middle Kingdom's statement of conservation philosophy and method that is based on Australia's highly regarded Burra Charter''.〔(Robert Bevan, 'Selling heritage to China' ''The Australian'' June 02, 2011 )〕 Australia ICOMOS and the Burra Charter have also been held up as a world standard in Malta.〔(Samantha Fabry' Conserving local heritage through heritage management ''Times of Malta'' December 18, 2005 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australia ICOMOS」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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