Cultural heritage

This brochure presents the role of UNESCO in disaster preparedness and mitigation. The Organization is closely involved in the conceptual shift in thinking away from post-disaster reaction to pre-disaster action. It addresses the education as the main

This report presents an estimation of the main effects of the disaster: the value of physical assets totally or partially destroyed; losses in economic flows from the absence of those assets; and the impact on economic development and social conditions.

This handbook aims at being used as guide to reduce the impact of disasters in cultural heritage properties. It describes the principles and the essential phases for planning a framework of risk preparedness for different forms of cultural heritage. The

This special volume deals exclusively with disasters, a subject of particular relevance in view of the threat to cultural heritage by global climate change.

This document presents the proceedings of the special session which had two main themes in the context of the ICCROM/World Heritage Centre partnership, to promote the integration of the traditional knowledge systems into risk management strategies.

This document represents a preliminary assessment of damages and losses in Indonesia due to the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami.

This manual provides the guidelines to create a new approach to cultural heritage conservation focused on prevention, aiming to develop strategies to protect heritage properties by reducing its vulnerability to disasters.

This proceedings includes inter alia the specific outputs of the meeting which included: an inventory of the relevant technical, legal and administrative measures already current in Europe.