Cultural heritage

This declaration raises awareness of resilience vis-à-vis cultural heritage.

A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk

This document is an outcome of the 2010 course "First aid to cultural heritage in time of conflict", which aimed to create a framework to secure cultural heritage in such times.

A national framework with commitment of the Government of Nepal for protection, growth, and promotion of national heritages and physical infrastructures.

This technical report describes the work that was conducted in order to identify and estimate the impacts of natural and human-induced hazards to selected cultural sites and to the economic sector of the surrounding affected area. The research was

A multimillion dollar project to preserve the ruins of an ancient kingdom located in remote Tibet will help the mud-and-rock structure stand natural disasters and weather erosion, a local official said Sunday...

Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General and Dr Walter Ammann, President of the Global Risk Forum GRF Davos, signed a Letter of Intent on Monday, 20 June 2011, in order to formalize and extend the long-standing cooperation between the two institutions in the field of risk management and reduction....

This document presents the programmes for action proposed from the cultural angle as an integral part of the recovery in Haiti following the earthquake that hit the country on 12 January 2010. It describes some activities undertaken to salvage objects and improve disaster risk reduction (DRR) and storage conditions, as well as to develop DRR and prevention plans for the National Archives and other key archives.