Cultural heritage

A call for integrating disaster and climate change considerations into legislation and agreements regarding World Heritage sites and endorsement of the Action Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Mitigation at World Heritage properties in the Asia and the Pacific region...

This report presents the assessment of the damage, losses and human recovery needs resulting from the earthquakes in West Sumatra and Jambi.

This Joint Rapid Assessment presents preliminary cost estimates for loss and damage from the 2009 Earthquake in Bhutan. It estimates recovery costs and identifies priorities for early recovery, reconstruction and disaster risk reduction.

This document is the outcome of a workshop on disaster risk management at World Heritage properties, jointly organized in November 2008 at Olympia (Greece) and which gathered experts and heritage site managers from various regions, participants discussed

More than 80 international experts from 16 countries gathered on last weekend in Acre for UNESCO's second annual World Heritage Workshop on 'Disaster Risk Reduction to Cultural Heritage Sites'...

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