Cultural Heritages of Water: The cultural heritages of water in the Middle East and Maghreb. Second edition revised and expanded = Les patrimoines culturels de l’eau : Les patrimoines culturels de l’eau au Moyen-Orient et au Maghreb. Deuxième édition revue et augmentéeMohammedEl FaïzauthorMohamed Mahmoud Mohamed AhmedYehdhihauthorAssaneGayeauthorYamnaDjellouli-TabetauthorMustaphaKhanoussiauthorMoniaAdiliauthorMohamedLouatiauthorFekri A.HassanauthorKarinBartlauthorMarie-LaureChambradeauthorMyriamSaadé-SbeihauthorTsvikaTsukauthorPietroLaureanoauthorGulsunTanyeliauthorDenizIkizauthorNooraAl MusallamauthorMargaretevan EssauthorWalid YasinAl TikritiauthorPhilip G.MacumberauthorArnulfHausleiterauthorAli Asghar SemsarYazdiauthorMajd LabbafKhaneikiauthorSabrinaSuaudauthorClémenceGrimalauthor"Over recent years a series of urgent and in some cases disastrous situations have arisen in the field of water access. [...] Because of climate change, resources today are under threat from long-term trends which are quite difficult to predict with precision on a regional basis, but which are however certain to occur. T[...] In this context, a return to traditional cultural heritages linked to water – some dating back more than a thousand years - would seem to be a necessary, or at least useful, approach. The initial aim of the approach we are adopting here is to provide assistance for recognising, studying and preserving heritage of this type. From this viewpoint, the framework provided by the World Heritage Convention is an important tool, and can provide instructive insights, when it comes to identifying sites and cultural landscapes with Outstanding Universal Value which are linked to the exploitation and use of water by human societies both today and in the past. It can play perhaps an even more important role in providing a methodology for the identification and then the preservation of such heritages, in a wider context, not only for properties which could be nominated for the World Heritage List, but also for properties of regional or local importance. The aim will also be to establish benchmark examples, which are highlighted for the benefit of everyone, and whose transmission to future generations can be assured in an appropriate way." (quoted from the introduction)09. Aspects économiques et sociaux de la conservation02. Patrimoine agricole06. Paysages culturels08. Canaux du patrimoine10. Jardins historiques28. Patrimoine Mondial07. Paysages indigènes/traditionnels27A. Patrimoine de l'eau2017ICOMOS InternationalMonographie