Description
This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating good practices for disaster risk management of cultural heritage.
The readers will learn about the practical application of various methodologies, tools, and techniques for disaster risk assessment, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery of cultural heritage. They will also learn about the application of traditional knowledge and engagement of communities for disaster risk management of cultural heritage. This will help relevant organisations and professionals to develop and implement projects in this field.
The intended audience for this book are Practitioners or site managers of cultural heritage sites and museums. Also, researchers and students studying disaster risk management of cultural heritage. The book will also be of interest to disaster risk management institutions at the urban, regional or national level/cultural heritage management institutions at the urban, regional or national level/city administration, municipalities, urban local bodies and planning departments/educational and research institutions which have specialised programmes in engineering, planning, disaster risk management, and conservation of cultural heritage.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Developing a Guideline for Preparing Risk Management Plans for Heritage Places in New Zealand
- Implementation of Fire Risk Mitigation Strategies at Urban Heritage Site - A Case Study on al-Azhar and al-Ghūrī District
- Ancient Town Walls at Risk: Methods, Technologies and Tools for Multi-hazard Risk Analysis, Monitoring, and Governance
- A Cultural Heritage Risk Index - The STORM Project Perspective
- Mapping Risk for Cultural Heritage: A Project on Archaeological Decorative Elements in Mexico
- Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage in George Town World Heritage City, Malaysia
- Historic Water Cisterns - An Effective Fire Preventive System
- The Dominican Convent of Santo Domingo Tehuantepec- A Disaster Risk Management Plan for Local Cultural Heritage
- Disaster Risk Management Plan for a World Heritage Site - Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpetre Works, Chile
- Disaster Risk Management Plan for Punakha Dzong, Bhutan
- From Theory to Practice: Insights from the Pathway to Implement DRM Measures for Cultural Heritage Sites
- Specialised Civil Protection Volunteering for Cultural Heritage Rescue – A Rescue Project During Earthquake in Central Italy
- Future Approach
Rohit Jigyasu, Kim Dowon, and Lata Shakya
PART 1 - DRM Frameworks and Risk Assessment
Vanessa Tanner
Abdelhamid Salah al-Sharief
Francesca Giuliani
Mohammad Ravankhah, Maria João Revez, Rosmarie de Wit, Angelos Chliaoutakis, Athanasios V. Argyriou, Joern Birkmann, Apostolos Sarris, and Maja Žuvela-Aloise
PART 2 - DRM plan implementation- workshops/community engagement/traditional knowledge
Dulce María Grimaldi and Mónica Vargas
Ming Chee Ang
Elena Mamani
David A. Torres
PART 3 - DRM plan implementation- stakeholders participation/decision making
Marcela Hurtado
Junko Mukai
PART 4 - DRM plan implementation- capacity building/others
Dr. Monia Del Pinto
Barbara Caranza
Rohit Jigyasu, Kim Dowon, and Lata Shakya