Routledge Handbook on Cultural Heritage and Disaster Risk Management

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the intersections between cultural heritage and disaster risks.

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Rohit Jigyasu is a conservation architect and risk management professional from India, currently working at ICCROM as Project Manager on Urban Heritage, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management. Rohit served as UNESCO Chair holder professor at the Institute for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, where he was instrumental in developing and teaching International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage. He was the elected President of ICOMOS-India from 2014-2018 and president of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Risk Preparedness (ICORP) from 2010-2019. Rohit served as the Elected Member of the Executive Committee of ICOMOS since 2011 and was its Vice President from 2017-2020. Before joining ICCROM, Rohit has been working with several national and international organizations such as UNESCO, UNISDR, Getty Conservation Institute and World Bank for consultancy, research and training on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage.

Ksenia Chmutina is a Professor of Disaster Studies at the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering at Loughborough University. Her research focuses on the processes of urban disaster risk creation and systemic implications of sustainability and resilience in the context of neoliberalism. Her research interests also include narratives and framings of disasters, intersectionality and vulnerability, and interlinkages between critical urban studies, cultural heritage, and disaster studies. A core part of her activities is science communication: she is a co-host of a popular podcast 'Disasters: Deconstructed'. Ksenia uses her work to draw attention to the fact that disasters are not natural.

Inhalt

Preface: JC Gaillard

Introduction: Why Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage?
Ksenia Chmutina and Rohit Jigyasu

Section 1 Disaster Risk Management and Cultural Heritage

Chapter 1: Disaster Risk Management Terms and Concepts

Lee Bosher

Chapter 2: Role of Intangible Attributes of Heritage in Disaster Risk Reduction

Sukrit Sen

Chapter 3: A new approach to cultural heritage and disaster risk reduction: a review of international policies

Giovanni Boccardi

Chapter 4: Financing Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage

Barbara Minguez Garcia

Section 2: Understanding the context

Chapter 5: Heritage and Peacebuilding

Elke Selter

Chapter 6: Cultural Heritage, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management

Will Megary

Chapter 7: Cultural heritage and urbanisation

Ebru Gencer

Chapter 8: Vernacular Built Heritage and Disaster Resilience

Rajendra Desai

Chapter 9: Risk Management

Sukhreet Bajwa, Tanaya Sarmah, Ranit Chatterjee and Rajib Shaw

Section 3: Understanding the challenges

Chapter 10: All Fired Up: The Inseparability of Nature and Culture in Disaster Risk Management

Steve Brown

Chapter 11: The Dangers of Romanticising Local Knowledge in the Context of Disaster Studies and Practice

Demet Intepe*, Robert Sakic Trogrlic, Maria Evangelina Filippi, Thirze Hermans, Hannah Bailon and Anuzska Maton*

Chapter 12: Challenges with techno-centric approaches in the implementation of Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage

David Torres and Giuseppe Forino

Chapter 13: Development and cultural heritage in the disaster capitalism era

Victor Marchezini, Andrea Lampis, Danilo Celso Pereira and Adriano Mota Ferreira

Chapter 14: Cultural Heritage and Post-Disaster Recovery

Wesley Cheek

Chapter 15: Reconstruction as recovery:The politics behind why heritage is funded internationally, nationally, and locally

Vanicka Arora

Chapter 16: 'Dark heritage': landscape, hazard, and heritage

Jazmin Scarlett, Miriam Rothenberg, Felix Riede and Karen Holmberg

Section 4: Moving forward

Chapter 17: Arts and other Cultural Expressions as Tools for Disaster Risk Management

Claudia González-Muzzio, Claudia Cardenas and Bernadette Esquivel

Chapter 18: Planning for Disasters facing Heritage at Risk: Ethics and Epistemes

Fallon S. Aidoo

Chapter 19: New Technologies and Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Properties

Hirofumi Ikawa

Chapter 20: Integrating DRM considerations into heritage management systems: barriers and opportunities

Luisa De Marco

Chapter 21: Building Synergies for Cultural Heritage: insights from theory and practice

Monia del Pinto and Clinton Dean Jackson

Conclusions: Challenges and Opportunties (this will include an appendix on how to make a DRM Plan for a heritage site)

Rohit Jigyasu and Ksenia Chmutina