Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage in Urban Areas

This module summarises the issues initially discussed in the first module and is the concluding module for the course. By this stage, participants should be well versed with the disaster risk management process and be prepared to learn how to integrate the disaster risk management process into overall management strategies. This module also emphasises the need to integrate disaster risk management within larger management systems, even introducing global cultural heritage and disaster risk management networks such as UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOMOS, UNISDR, and UNDP etc.

The themes that can be explored in this module may relate to a set of national and international policies. For instance, a course may focus exclusively on World Heritage Sites in which case the UNESCO World Heritage Convention would need to be discussed as well as how the disaster risk management plan for such sites would need to respond to a site’s Outstanding Universal ValuesThis module is ideally presented during the concluding days of the course, before the final summation and review sessions. However, for shorter courses and seminar programmes, this module could be presented as a single lecture at the end of an overview course (TYPE A) or be combined with the first module for an independent introductory seminar (TYPE B).