Cultural heritage

Today, in celebration of Earth Day, President Obama will visit the Florida Everglades, where rising seas and other climate change impacts are endangering one of the nation’s most iconic landscapes – and increasing risks to the State’s $82 billion tourism economy...

This publication was developed to assist administrators and security managers of cultural institutions develop plans to protect not only their collections but also their employees and visitors in the event of natural disasters and other destructive events

This guide aims to help all who are responsible for museums and galleries to prepare for disasters and emergencies. It defines an emergency plan as one that first cares for visitors and staff and cares for and safeguards archeological sites, natural lands

'The Sundarbans is sadly a powerful example of how creeping climatic changes accumulate disaster risks. The expansion of environmental threats to social ones highlights an urgent need for governance processes and systems to target this,' said Mark Pelling, a geographer and expert on climate change-induced disasters at Kings College, London...

This booklet presents a sampling of UNESCOs projects that contribute to the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNR). The booklet reveals the great variety of UNESCOs programmes and initiatives that are serving the Decade’s objectives

This document presents the decisions adopted by the World Heritage Committee at its 31st session in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 23 June – 2 July 2007 . It contains a revised version of the “Strategy for Reducing Risks at World Heritage Properties”, that

This paper is part of a series highlighting the World Bank's achievements in disaster risk management initiatives. It presents the analytical support provided by the World Bank in close collaboration with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) on the basis of the Government-led Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) following the devastating 2009 typhoons, to formulate a disaster risk financing strategy to reduce the fiscal burden arising from the recurring costs of disasters in the Philippines.

Following the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 at the Third UN World Conference for DRR, Senator Loren Legarda today said that countries should turn their commitment into urgent action, since 'the new framework gives primary importance to understanding disaster risk, which is very important in determining appropriate solutions and actions...'