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World heritage: fostering resilience

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World Heritage No. 74, December 2014

This issue of World Heritage illustrates, through some particularly telling examples, how risks to heritage can be reduced and how, following a disaster, heritage can be used as a driver for rebuilding the social cohesion and restoring the self-confidence of affected communities, while offering opportunities for employment and long-term economic development.

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Themes Social impacts and social resilience Cultural heritage
ISBN/ISSN/DOI
1020-4202
Number of pages
72 p.
Publication year
2014

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