Books on the ethics of heritage conservation

Heritage Conservation

Antons, A. & Logan, W. (Eds). (2017)

Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage

Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

Routledge

Avrami, E., Macdonald, S., Mason, R. & Meyers, D. (Eds)  (2019)

Values in Heritage Management: Emerging Approaches and Research Directions

Getty Conservation Institute. Online

ICOMOS Scientific Journal (1995, issue 2)
Ethics, principles and methodology

Online

Borelli, V.B. (2012)

Etica della conservazione e tutela del passato

Roma: Libreria Editrice Viella


Bounia, A. & Witcomb, A. (Eds) (2024)

The Ethics of Collecting Trauma: The Role of Museums in Collecting and Displaying Contemporary Crises

Routledge

Bülow, W.,  Frowe, H., Matravers, D. and  Thomas J.L. (Eds). (2023)

Heritage and War: Ethical Issues

Oxford UP

Desai, J. (2019)
Equity in heritage conservation : the case of Ahmedabad, India

Routledge

Finkelstein, C. Derek Gillman, D. et al (2022)

The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War (Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law)

Oxford UP

Frowe, H. & Matravers, D .(2024)

Stones and Lives: The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War

Oxford UP

Gibson L & Pendlebury, J (eds) (2009).
Valuing Historic Environments

Routledge

Hatchfield, P. (ed.) (2013).
Ethics and Critical Thinking in Conservation
American Institute for Conservation

Hoffman, B.T. (Ed.) (2009)

Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy and Practice

Cambridge UP

Holtorf, C., Pantazatos, A. & Scarre, G. (Eds) (2019)

Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations

Routledge

Ireland,  T &  Schofield J (Eds) (2015)
The Ethics of Cultural Heritage

Springer

Langfield, M., Logan, W. & Craith, M.N. (eds) (2009)

Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights: Intersections in Theory and Practice

Routledge (Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage)

Routledge

Larsen, P.B. (2018)

World Heritage and Human Rights:  Lessons from the Asia-Pacific and global arena

Routledge

Logan, W. & Reeves, K. (Eds) (2008)

Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with ‘Difficult Heritage’

Routledge (Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage)

Routledge

Matthes, E.H. (2024).  

What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation.

Oxford UP 

Mauch Messenger, P. & (1991)

The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture Whose Property

University of New Mexico Press

Munoz Vinas, S. (2020)

On the Ethics of Cultural Heritage Conservation

Archetype Books

Niglio, O. & Lee, E. Y.J. (2021)

Transcultural Diplomacy and International Law in Heritage Conservation: A Dialogue between Ethics, Law, and Culture
Springer

Niglio, O.(2015)

El valor del patrimonio cultural entre extremo Oriente y extremo Occidente

Roma: Aracne Editrice

Pantazatos, P., Schofield, J., Ireland, T & Zhang, R. (2026)

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Ethics

Routledge

Parker, E. (Ed) (2023)

The Ethics of Cultural Heritage

Murphy & Moore Publishing

Samuels, K.L. (2010).  Mobilizing Heritage in the Maghrib: Rights, Development, and Transnational Archaeologies. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.

Sandis, C. (Ed) (2014)

Cultural heritage ethics : between theory and practice

Cambridge UP. Online

Schädler-Saub, U. & Szmygin, B. (Eds (2019)
Conservation Ethics Today: Are Our Conservation-restoration Theories And Practice Ready For The 21st Century? 
International Scientific Committee for Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration. Online

Silverman, H. & Ruggles D.F. (Eds.) (2008)
Cultural Heritage and Human Rights,
New York: Springer. Online

Stone, P.G. (Ed). (2011)

Cultural Heritage, Ethics, and the Military

Boydell Press

White, L., Campbell, S. & Thomas, S.  (2019).

Competing Values in Archaeological Heritage

Springer.

Ethics of Museum Studies

Edson G. (Ed) (1997)
Museum Ethics: Theory and Practice Paperback

Edson G (2016)
Museum Ethics in Practice

Routledge

Kavanagh, J., Miles, E. et al. (2024).

Ethics of Contemporary Collecting (Routledge Guides to Practice in Museums, Galleries and Heritage)

Routledge

Marstine, J., Bauer, A. & Haines, C. (Eds) (2014)

New Directions in Museum Ethics

Routledge

Matthes, E.H. (2021)

Drawing the Line: What to Do with the Work of Immoral Artists from Museums to the Movies

Oxford UP

Mottola Molfino, Alessandra (2004).
L’Etica dei Musei. Un Viaggio tra Passato e Futuro dei Musei alle Soglie del Terzo Millennio

Umberto Allemandi

Murphy, B.L. (Ed.) (2016)
Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage 

Routledge

Owczarek, N (Ed.) (2023)

Prioritizing People in Ethical Decision-Making and Caring for Cultural Heritage Collections

Routledge

Ethics of Archeology & Anthropology

Belford, P. & Wait, G. (2025)

Ethics in Archeological Practice

Routledge

Colwell-Chanthanphonh, C., Hollowell, J. & McGill, D. (2008).

Ethics in Action: Case Studies in Archaeological Dilemmas

The Society for American Archaeology

Costello, S. K. & Lepinski, S. (2024)

Ethics in Archaeological Practice

Alexandria: American Society of Overseas Research

Düchs, C.H.  (2011).

Architektur für ein gutes Leben. Über Verantwortung, Moral und Ethik des Architekten

Münster: Waxmann. 

Routledge

Gnecco, C. & Lippert, D. (Eds) (2014).

Ethics and Archaeological Praxis

Springer

Meighan, C.W. (1986)

Archaeology and Anthropological Ethics

Wormwood Press

Scarre, C. & Scarre, G.

The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice

Cambridge UP

Vitelli, K.D. & Colwell-Chanthaphonh, C. (Eds.) (2006)

Archaeological Ethics (2nd ed)

AltaMira Press

Zimmerman, L.J. , Vitelli, K.D. & Hollowell-Zimmer, J. (2003)

Ethical Issues in Archaeology

AltaMira Press

Ethics of Architecture

Botta, M. (1996)
Etica del costruire
Gius. Laterza & Figli


Botta, M. (Author), & Bells, M. (Translator) (2005)
Ethique du bâti.
Marseille: Éditions Parenthèses,


Caman, J. (2024)

Archaeological Practice as Politics and Ethics

Springer

Fisher, F. (2010).
Ethics for Architects: 50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice (Architecture Briefs)

Princeton Architectural Press

Fisher, F (2018)

The Architecture of Ethics

Routledge

Kingwell , M. (2021)

The Ethics of Architecture

Oxford UP

Wasserman, B., Sullivan, P. et al (2008)

Ethics and the Practice of Architecture

John Wiley and Sons