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Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage: From Risk Preparedness to Recovery for Immovable Heritage book cover

1st Edition

Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage From Risk Preparedness to Recovery for Immovable Heritage

Edited By Bijan Rouhani, Xavier Romão Copyright 2024
312 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage presents case studies from different regions in the world and establishes a framework for understanding, identifying, and analysing disaster risks to immovable cultural heritage. Featuring contributions from academics and practitioners from around the globe, the book presents a comprehensive view of the scholarship relating to cultural heritage,... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction

Bijan Rouhani and Xavier Romão

1 Understanding Risks to Cultural Heritage: Are Disasters Natural?

Francesco De Pascale

2 Disasters and Heritage Loss

Xavier Romão and Esmeralda Paupério

3 Stability of Cultural Information in Unstable Environments: Data Management for Digital Preservation of Immovable Cultural Heritage against Natural Hazards

Michael T. Fisher

4 Disaster Risk Assessment Strategies for Cultural Heritage

Xavier Romão and Bijan Rouhani

5 From Risk Reduction to Risk Adaptation: Protecting the Past for the Future

Rohit Jigyasu and Jukka Jokilehto

6 Remote Sensing and Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage

Louise Rayne, Bijan Rouhani, and Jen Lavris Makovics

7 Can Our Past Save Our Future? Traditional Knowledge and Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage

Rohit Jigyasu and Jukka Jokilehto

8 Emergency Response to Cultural Heritage

Bijan Rouhani and Xavier Romão

9 Cultural Heritage Recovery and Reconstruction

Jukka Jokilehto

10 Surviving Disasters: Traditional Disaster-Resilient Designs in Japan

Takeyuki Okubo

11 A Case Study from the World Heritage Site of the Tabriz Historic Bazaar and Fire Management, Iran

Farhad Nazari and Mohammad Aminian

12 Winds, Rain, and Thunder: Hurricanes, Community Support, and Preparedness at Teyuna-Ciudad Perdida Archaeological Park, Colombia, a Case Study

Santiago Giraldo

13 Counting the Cost: Architectural Heritage in Post-Quake Christchurch, 2010–2020

Ian Lochhead

14 A Multilevel Framework for Flood Risk Assessment of Cultural Heritage: A Case Study from Portugal

Rui Figueiredo, Xavier Romão, and Esmeralda Paupério

15 Leveraging Digital Systems for Disaster Management at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bagan Archaeological Zone in Myanmar

Tharaphy Aung and Arun Menon

Conclusion

Bijan Rouhani and Xavier Romão

Index

Biography

Bijan Rouhani, PhD, is a senior researcher of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK.

Xavier Romão is an assistant professor at the Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal.

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