Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage

ISBN-13: 9781032204581 / Twarda / 2023 / 296 str.

Opis

Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage presents case studies from different regions in the world and establishes a framework for understanding, identifying, and analysing disaster risks to immovable cultural heritage.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1.　Understanding Risks to Cultural Heritage: Are Disasters Natural?; 2.　Disasters and Heritage Loss; 3.　Stability of Cultural Information in Unstable Environments:　Data Management for　Digital Preservation of　Immovable Cultural Heritage　against Natural Hazards; 4.　Disaster　Risk Assessment　Strategies　for　Cultural Heritage; 5.　From Risk Reduction to Risk Adaptation: Protecting the Past for the Future; 6. Remote Sensing and Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage; 7.　Can Our Past Save Our Future? Traditional Knowledge and Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage; 8. Emergency Response to Cultural Heritage; 9.　Cultural　Heritage Recovery and　Reconstruction; 10.　Surviving　Disasters: Traditional　Disaster-Resilient Designs　in Japan;11.　A　Case　Study　from　the World Heritage　Site of the Tabriz Historic Bazaar and　Fire　Management, Iran; 12. Winds, Rain and Thunder: Hurricanes, Community Support, and Preparedness at Teyuna-Ciudad Perdida Archaeological Park, Colombia, a Case Study; 13.　Counting the Cost:　Architectural Heritage in Post-Quake Christchurch, 2010　–　2020; 14. A Multilevel Framework for Flood Risk Assessment of Cultural Heritage: A Case Study from Portugal; 15.　Leveraging Digital Systems　for Disaster Management　at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bagan Archaeological Zone in Myanmar; Conclusion.

O autorze

Bijan Rouhani, PhD, is a senior researcher of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK.

Xavier Romão is an assistant professor at the Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal.