Cultural heritage

The UNESCO Director-General points out the need for expertise and protection of cultural and natural sites inscribed on the UN World Heritage List at risk from threats ranging from climate change to urbanization, recalling recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, floods in Poland, fires in Uganda and landslides in Peru...

This publication aims to raise the awareness of World Heritage managers and administrators of the real extent of risks associated with disasters. It provides them with a sound methodology for identifying, assessing and then reducing these risks, with a

This document summarises the progress made in the implementation of the Strategy for Reducing Risks from Disasters at World Heritage Properties, structured according to the five objectives of the Hyogo Framework for Action, the key policy document on

A call for integrating disaster and climate change considerations into legislation and agreements regarding World Heritage sites and endorsement of the Action Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Mitigation at World Heritage properties in the Asia and the Pacific region...

This report presents the assessment of the damage, losses and human recovery needs resulting from the earthquakes in West Sumatra and Jambi.

This Joint Rapid Assessment presents preliminary cost estimates for loss and damage from the 2009 Earthquake in Bhutan. It estimates recovery costs and identifies priorities for early recovery, reconstruction and disaster risk reduction.

This document is the outcome of a workshop on disaster risk management at World Heritage properties, jointly organized in November 2008 at Olympia (Greece) and which gathered experts and heritage site managers from various regions, participants discussed

More than 80 international experts from 16 countries gathered on last weekend in Acre for UNESCO's second annual World Heritage Workshop on 'Disaster Risk Reduction to Cultural Heritage Sites'...