Cultural heritage

Efforts to protect cultural heritage from disaster risk, including tangible heritage (monuments, archaeological sites, paintings, manuscripts, sculpture) and intangible heritage (inherited traditions or living expressions).

Latest Cultural heritage additions in the Knowledge Base

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From 17 to 20 October, Venice hosted an EU MODEX, which for the first time in its history, thanks to PROCULTHER-NET and the European consortium running the exercise, included a dedicated team and one expert embedded in the EUCPT to protect cultural assets
Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network
Colorful half-timbered houses in Miltenberg historical medieval Old Town, Bavaria, Germany
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Irina Pavlova, UNESCO Project Officer, delves into how cultural and natural heritage can be harnessed as dynamic resources in building community resilience against the increasing threat of natural hazards in Europe.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
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Documents and publications
The aim of this paper is to analyze how the integrated understanding of climate change and disaster risk reduction policies can contribute to building climate resilience of cultural heritage sites by reviewing the key themes emerging from the literature.
Bookshelves in a library.
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Libraries play a crucial role in disaster risk reduction by protecting cultural heritage, providing shelter, and offering critical information. DRR also urges libraries to reduce climate impacts and support social-emotional wellbeing in communities.
Australian Library and Information Association
Traditional windcatchers in Iran help cool houses
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For millennia, civilizations knew how to shelter humans in hot and dry climates. To prepare for an even hotter future, designers today could learn from cultures throughout history.
The Energy Mix
Cover and source: Springer
Documents and publications
This open access book demonstrates how the latest advances in creative arts, intelligent systems and climate science can be integrated and leveraged to transform the visualisation of extreme event scenarios.
Cover and source: Green Risk-Informed Resilient Development Corps
Documents and publications
This paper documents the outcomes of a year-long intervention designed to address climate challenges in Jodhpur, India utilising a mixed methods that featured the production of the documentary "Sanchay".
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Next to some of the priciest real estate in the world, the Shinnecock Nation refuses to merely retreat from its vulnerable shoreline.
Vox Media Inc.
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