Cultural heritage

Efforts to protect cultural heritage from disaster risk, including tangible heritage (monuments, archaeological sites, paintings, manuscripts, sculpture) and intangible heritage (inherited traditions or living expressions).

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Cover and source: Springer
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This open access book demonstrates how the latest advances in creative arts, intelligent systems and climate science can be integrated and leveraged to transform the visualisation of extreme event scenarios.

Springer
Cover and source: Green Risk-Informed Resilient Development Corps
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This paper documents the outcomes of a year-long intervention designed to address climate challenges in Jodhpur, India utilising a mixed methods that featured the production of the documentary "Sanchay".

Green Risk-Informed Resilient Development (GRRID) Corps
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Next to some of the priciest real estate in the world, the Shinnecock Nation refuses to merely retreat from its vulnerable shoreline.

Vox Media Inc.
Bell tower, Jesuit Guarani Mission, Santisima Trinidad del Parana, Paraguay
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Asunción hosted on 6 August the presentation of the initial results of the project ‘Design and implementation of the Risk Management Plan for the Jesuit Missions of Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangüe, World Heritage site in Paraguay’.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
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Virtual reality can be useful to create immersive simulations of cultural heritage sites: from the documentation in support of disaster planning, restoration, and education, to the elaboration of safeguarding plans for cultural heritage.

PROCULTHER
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Climate change and extreme weather events pose a real risk to the world's heritage sites - a stark reality laid bare by the recent wildfire in Jasper, Alta.

Conversation Media Group, the
Surreal artistic image of a smiling high school student sitting a mountain of books thinking.
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Climate-induced disasters are forcing people to migrate out of mountainous areas, and in the process their languages and cultures are being profoundly affected

Dialogue Earth
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The main objective of this study is to identify relevant flood vulnerability indicators (FLOVIs) that could be the basis for developing an indicator-based method dedicated to cultural heritage.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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