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As the world continues to urbanise rapidly, cities are increasingly bearing the brunt of conflicts, crises, and disasters, which have a devastating effect on culture.
A new World Bank-UNESCO Position Paper, Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery (CURE), proposes an enhanced culture-based framework for city reconstruction and recovery.…
By Adela Suliman
BONN, Germany - Faced with a fast-growing population and risks from earthquakes and flooding, Istanbul must take bold steps to adapt and improve the quality of life of its residents, planning experts from Turkey's biggest city said on Saturday.
The city of about 15 million people expects its population to increase by a third in less t…
Officials from Beijing's Forbidden City have said an ancient drainage system protected it during recent heavy rains and intense flooding.
Bad weather has killed 37 people in the Chinese capital in the past week while at least seven others are missing.
On 20 July, much of the city was shut down by a huge storm but the palace's official Sina Weibo said…
By Steven Cohen
The politics of climate change is tough. Unlike toxics or water pollution, climate change is a global problem that is caused everywhere and much of the impact will take place in the future. However, we are learning that some climate impacts have already arrived and are local. As my colleague Adam Sobel has found, the need to adapt to th…
Bangkok - UNESCO is launching a project to develop a flood risk mitigation plan for the World Heritage Site of Ayutthaya.
The launch event at UNESCO Bangkok on 22 March 2013 was attended by key players of Thailand’s national flood risk reduction efforts and representatives from the embassies of Germany, Japan, Portugal and the United States that have…
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 important issues to the attention of the larger disaster risk reduction community and to stimulate wider…
25 April 2016, GENEVA – The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today marked the anniversary of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck Nepal last year with a call for greater investment in resilient infrastructure if the death toll from future earthquakes is to be reduced.
Mr. Glasser said: “The Nepal Earthquake wa…
India is experiencing one of the fastest rates of planned and unplanned urbanization, which is increasing the vulnerability of historic urban areas to natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, cyclones and fires, thereby putting people, properties, infrastructure, economy as well as cultural heritage at greater risk than ever before. Climate Change i…
The 9th International i-Rec Conference will be hosted at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA from 5-7 June 2019 by the recently established Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER).
In the context of massive global challenges caused by rapid human development, the 2019 i-Rec will address some of the most pressing but under-rep…
Beyond the repair of monuments, the dynamic layers of urban heritage greatly complicate the already complex matter of urban reconstruction and retrofit, and impact on initial expectations as well as envisioned improvements from reconstruction activities and the way they are managed.
This conference aims to offer new perspectives and strategi…
The 2016 Understanding Risk Forum (UR2016) is the fourth biennial conference of the UR Community. Understanding Risk is a global community of experts and practitioners in the field of disaster risk identification—including risk assessment and risk communication—ranging from representatives of government agencies, multilateral organizations, the private…
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Climate change is increasing the frequency of disasters caused by hydro-meteorological events such as heavy rainfall, flash floods, cyclones, typhoons and storm surges. As a result, many heritage sites located in global hot spots such as coastal areas especially below sea level are exposed to risks of inundation greater than ever before. Also the…
Historic urban areas and their territorial settings are irreplaceable and highly complex cultural resources that have evolved over time and contain various heritage components and systems such as traditional housing, urban spaces, ecological features such as water systems and intangible components such as rituals and social activities that have sustaine…
Heritage at risk: special edition, 2007This special volume deals exclusively with disasters, a subject of particular relevance in view of the threat to cultural heritage by global climate change. This publication is the outcome of the conference 'Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters — Risk Preparedness and the Limits of Prevention'. It contains the c…
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a painting is worth much more. In a busy and crowded Dar es Salaam neighbourhood, poverty has got men and women on autopilot. The physical, mental and sometimes social labour in the city slum of Jangwani is intense. The clutter, the noise and the press of daily living makes one imagine that the only pictures…