Cultural heritage

This booklet outlines UNESCO's activities in small island developing States (SIDS), covering the period from 2006-2013. It features chapters on: (i) promoting quality education in islands; (ii) building island resilience; (iii) valuing and sharing island

This document presents the decisions adopted by the World Heritage Committee at its 38th session in Doha, Qatar, on 15-25 June 2014. It addresses the need to integrate a concern for heritage within international policies and programmes for disaster risk

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 117, September 2014:

This issue focuses on the important theme of the ‘Need for disaster risk reduction (DRR) sensitive heritage conservation in the Himalayas’. The Himalayan states of India are home to a lot of heritage

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 115, July 2014:

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net aims to highlight the challenges to effective DRR in Sikkim and other hilly states of India.  It contains the following articles: (i) The challenge of DRR in Sikkim and

This report summarizes the potential impact of climate change on the historic environment of Wales and is intended to support the production of a sectoral adaptation plan. The principal areas identified from the report are: (i) areas below the one metre

This guidance complements the Volume A Guidelines of the PDNA methodology, and aims to assist in carrying out a PDNA of culture sector in order to conduct an integrated assessment of the impacts of disaster effects on the sector.

This paper presents the current thinking in the field as well as various examples – from different regions of the world - of how heritage can be better protected from disasters while contributing to the resilience of societies. It aims to bring these

Il sindaco interverrà come uno dei principali speaker nella sessione plenaria della Conferenza sulla "Resilienza e patrimonio culturale", organizzata da UNESCO, per sottolineare il valore della cultura e come la manutenzione dei centri storici delle città e del loro patrimonio culturale sia fondamentale anche per far fronte ai bisogni di coesione sociale, vivibilità e sviluppo economico dei territori...