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Displaying 15 of about 36 resultsIn 2018, the World Bank and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) jointly issued a position paper on Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery (CURE), reflecting the shared commitment of these two organizations to place culture at the forefront of the reconstruction and recovery of cities in post-conflict, post-…
This report presents the preliminary results of the technical assistance to connect and develop coordination between three sectors in the Central American and Dominican Republic region — Disaster Risk Management, Culture and Cultural Heritage, and Sustainable Tourism — by promoting robust regional and multisectoral cooperation. Presenting an overal…
Misunderstandings towards the teachings of Islam increases the fatalistic attitude towards disaster. Fatalistic attitude causes them to ignore measures to reduce the disaster risk. A new approach is needed to change the fatalistic attitude that afflicts most Muslim countries.
This article aims to provide an overview of the view of Islam on di…
By Elena Delavega
Mexico City is a dust bowl, a polluted megalopolis where breathing is hard and newly washed clothes hung out to dry turn stiff by evening. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began clobbering this capital city, residents regularly wore face masks during the frequent air quality emergencies there.
Now Mexico City’s b…
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Following the disastrous explosion that hit the city of Beirut on 4 August 2020, causing more than 200 deaths and immense destruction in the urban, social and cultural fabric of the city, the Institutes in charge of cultural heritage – CH safeguarding have activated a prompt response, also at international level. In this context of internati…
By Pizaro Gozali Idrus
Dozens of stupas circling the Borobudur Temple, a 9th-century Buddhist temple, in the Indonesian Magelang city of the Central Java province, were covered in gray tarpaulins, to protect them from the raging Merapi volcano’s ashes.
"If volcanic ashes get in, it will be difficult for us to clean it since we have to dismantle the st…
By Pierluigi Cara and Cosmo Mercuri
Contribution of the National Map of Structural Aggregates to the identification of historical and artistic emergencies for civil protection purposes.
In September 2020, experts from the Cultural Heritage Group of the Department of Civil Protection – DPC, already involved in the implementation of PROCULTHER, were in…
Interested in learning how to use the traditional knowledge held by your local community for reducing disaster risk?
On the world day that promotes disaster risk reduction through people-centred approaches, ICCROM is pleased to launch the digital publication inSIGHT. This participatory game offers its users the opportunity to build a common understandi…
This document focuses on best practices and lessons learned from Japan regarding resilient culturage heritage (CH) that might be of assistance in other contexts.
However, while Japan takes the protection of its CH very seriously, exposed as it is to a vast range of hazards, the country also faces several challenges and obstacles in operationalizin…
In 2018, the World Bank and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) jointly issued a position paper on Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery (CURE), reflecting the shared commitment of these two organizations to place culture at the forefront of the reconstruction and recovery of cities in post-conflict, post-…
PROCULTHER is running from January 2019 to December 2020 and aims at contributing to develop European Union Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) and Participating States capacities to protect cultural heritage assets during emergencies by placing their protection at the top of national European agendas and maki…
Towards the Integrated Protection of Immovable and Movable Cultural Heritage from Disasters
Cultural heritage is increasingly exposed to disasters caused by natural and human-induced hazards such as earthquakes, floods, fires, typhoons, theft, terrorism, etc. Recent examples include fires in the Shuri Castle and the Notre-Dame de Paris in 2019, the Nat…
Congresso Internacional 40 anos do sismo dos Açores de 1980
Start Date: 06 Oct 2020
End Date: 07 Oct 2020
Country: Portugal
Location of event: Lisboa
Full virtual conference through ZOOM Venue
The “International meeting on the 40th anniversary of the 1980 earthquake: a week of reflection, (40/80)” will take place at the Angra do Heroísmo Cultural…
By Erin Seekamp
With global travel curtailed during the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are finding comfort in planning future trips. But imagine that you finally arrive in Venice and the “floating city” is flooded. Would you stay anyway, walking through St. Mark’s Square on makeshift catwalks or elevated wooden passages – even if you couldn’t enter the…
By Lisa Cox and Nick Evershed
At least 80% of the Blue Mountains world heritage area and more than 50% of the Gondwana world heritage rainforests have burned in Australia’s ongoing bushfire crisis.
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The scale of the disaster is such that it could affect the diversity of eucalypts for which the Blue Mountains world heritage area is recognised, said…