Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage

Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is vulnerable to the adverse impacts of natural disasters, and climate change is adding to the urgency of addressing this challenge. Countries around the world are employing a variety of measures to safeguard cultural heritage aga...

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Main Authors: Stanton-Geddes, Zuzana, Soz, Salman Anees
Format: Policy Note
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2017
Subjects:
CULTURAL HERITAGE
RESILIENCE
NATURAL DISASTERS
CLIMATE CHANGE
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/696061511882383371/Promoting-disaster-resilient-cultural-heritage
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spelling okr-10986-289552021-05-26T09:05:19Z Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage Stanton-Geddes, Zuzana Soz, Salman Anees CULTURAL HERITAGE RESILIENCE NATURAL DISASTERS CLIMATE CHANGE DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT DISASTER PREPAREDNESS Cultural heritage is vulnerable to the adverse impacts of natural disasters, and climate change is adding to the urgency of addressing this challenge. Countries around the world are employing a variety of measures to safeguard cultural heritage against disaster risks, drawing on relevant conventions, policy frameworks, and guidance. To protect lives, livelihoods, and cultural heritage, it is important to strengthen the resilience of assets at risk and make disaster resilience an intrinsic part of cultural heritage management. This note highlights a number of recommendations that can help policy makers and practitioners further develop DRM practices for more resilient cultural heritage. 2017-12-05T21:11:55Z 2017-12-05T21:11:55Z 2017-10 Policy Note http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/696061511882383371/Promoting-disaster-resilient-cultural-heritage http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28955 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Policy Notes East Asia and Pacific Myanmar
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topic CULTURAL HERITAGE
RESILIENCE
NATURAL DISASTERS
CLIMATE CHANGE
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
spellingShingle CULTURAL HERITAGE
RESILIENCE
NATURAL DISASTERS
CLIMATE CHANGE
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Stanton-Geddes, Zuzana
Soz, Salman Anees
Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
Myanmar
description Cultural heritage is vulnerable to the adverse impacts of natural disasters, and climate change is adding to the urgency of addressing this challenge. Countries around the world are employing a variety of measures to safeguard cultural heritage against disaster risks, drawing on relevant conventions, policy frameworks, and guidance. To protect lives, livelihoods, and cultural heritage, it is important to strengthen the resilience of assets at risk and make disaster resilience an intrinsic part of cultural heritage management. This note highlights a number of recommendations that can help policy makers and practitioners further develop DRM practices for more resilient cultural heritage.
format Policy Note
author Stanton-Geddes, Zuzana
Soz, Salman Anees
author_facet Stanton-Geddes, Zuzana
Soz, Salman Anees
author_sort Stanton-Geddes, Zuzana
title Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage
title_short Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage
title_full Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage
title_fullStr Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage
title_full_unstemmed Promoting Disaster Resilient Cultural Heritage
title_sort promoting disaster resilient cultural heritage
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/696061511882383371/Promoting-disaster-resilient-cultural-heritage
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28955
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