The Ravello International Conference on World Heritage at Risk is one of the scientific events following the successful International Symposium and PhD Summer School “Valuing Cultural Diversity in Cities: Challenges to Cultural Economics” held on the Italian island of Procida in September 2009 and funded by the European Commission within the SUS.DIV (Sustainable Development in a Diverse World) project. The idea of a series of regular events was promoted in that occasion. Several of the high profile speakers attending the previous Symposium have become part of the CEC series Faculty.
The conference series on Culture, Economics and Cities aims to create a platform, where scholars in the fields of urban studies and cultural economics will meet and discuss topical issues related to culture and cities, identifying cutting edge methodologies within a multidisciplinary perspective, with a clear economic emphasis. We aim to identify a network of selected high profile scientists exchanging high quality research and ideas on specific urban studies research challenges brought by contemporary cities, both in developed and developing countries.