Book: Intangible Heritage and Sustainability. Tradition, culture and legacy in the Community of Madrid

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Practical guide for the conservation and enhancement of intangible cultural heritage

The publication Intangible Heritage and Sustainability. Tradition, culture and legacy in the Community of Madrid, addresses intangible cultural heritage and its impact on the life of communities, articulating values, identities, convictions, expressions, knowledge, knowledge and techniques.

Intangible heritage constitutes an instrument of social cohesion and participation and plays an important role in the fight against exclusion and inequality, as well as in environmental preservation and in the economic dimension. Factors, all of them, inherent to sustainability. The book, edited by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, under the scientific coordination of María Pía Timón Tiemblo, analyzes the social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development within the framework of the 2030 Agenda and its objectives.

Summary of content

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, this publication seeks to investigate the relationship between intangible heritage and sustainability based on public policies and cases of good practices that are being carried out in this field in the territory of the Community of Madrid.

Trades, knowledge and knowledge are presented, such as dry stone or esparto grass, as well as festive rituals and their values of inclusion and social cohesion associated with them. The recovery of traditional extensive grazing in El Boalo, Cerceda and Matalpino, or the wine-growing activities of Cadalso de los Vidrios and San Martín de Valdeiglesias, are some of the examples mentioned.

The book aims to be a practical reference guide for managers of cultural heritage, based on the premise that the diversity of intangible manifestations that we find in the Madrid territory, many of them doomed to disappear, must be claimed as effective models of sustainable development.

The authors explain the importance of people, networks and citizens for the management and safeguarding of cultural heritage, and present a critical analysis of tourism and sustainability with its risks and opportunities, establishing criteria for the development of sustainable projects.