WHS+-+Potala+Palace+in+Lhasa+(China)

a. +A world heritage is a site with info on all countries b.To be included on the World Heritage List, sites must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria. These criteria are explained in the [|**Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention**] which, besides the text of the Convention, is the main working tool on World Heritage. The criteria are regularly revised by the Committee to reflect the evolution of the World Heritage concept itself. Until the end of 2004, World Heritage sites were selected on the basis of six cultural and four natural criteria. With the adoption of the revised Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention, only one set of ten criteria exists.


 *  ||||||||||||  **Cultural criteria **  ||||||||  **Natural criteria **  ||
 * Operational Guidelines 2002 || (i)  || (ii)  || (iii)  || (iv)  || (v)  || (vi)  || (i)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(ii)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(iii)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(iv)  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Operational Guidelines 2005 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(i)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(ii)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(iii)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(iv)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(v)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(vi)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(viii)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(ix)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(vii)  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">(x)  ||

<span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Selection criteria: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The protection, management, authenticity and integrity of properties are also important considerations. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Since 1992 significant interactions between people and the natural environment have been recognized as **cultural landscapes.** <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">c.to show the enemy the other guys stats **
 * 1) <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius;
 * 2) <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design;
 * 3) <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared;
 * 4) <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history;
 * 5) <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change;
 * 6) <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria);
 * 7) <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance;
 * 8) <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features;
 * 9) <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals;
 * 10) <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation.