Cultural heritage

This scoping paper examines cultural loss as a sub-type of non-economic loss and damage including its different types, elements, implications, and potential ways that it can be addressed, including through documentation, preservation, and compensation.

Institute led dismantling and reconstruction of three monumental gates in danger of collapse

When an earthquake strikes, the priority for rescue teams is to save lives. But there is also the need to preserve historical heritage. And the way in which ancient buildings survive can also provide many lessons as authorities look to rebuild.

In this paper the authors use quantitative and qualitative data to investigate how traditional housing was transformed during the post-earthquake reconstruction of four historic neighborhoods in the Kathmandu Valley.

This article contributes to developing an indicator-based vulnerability assessment framework for cultural heritage sites. It provides a vulnerability index for heritage sites exposed to multiple hazards, including sudden-onset and slow-onset hazards.

In an area plagued by periods of drought, it is difficult to understand how the great ancient city of Great Zimbabwe thrived for centuries, but the answer to that has now been found.

This is UNESCO's contribution to the Mid-term Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

The study tapped into participants’ cultural worldviews and perception of risk to help predict which communication strategies work best to convince different types of people.