International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2012 will be organized from 8th-22nd September, 2012 in Kyoto, Kobe and Tohoku (JAPAN).
Historic areas with settlements and their surrounding landscape are irreplaceable and highly complex cultural resources which have evolved over time and contain different heritage components as traditional housing, urban spaces, ecological features and intangible components as rituals and social activities which have sustained these areas for generations.
However, these historic areas are becoming increasingly fragile due to exceptional transformation processes that have posted grave risks to their heritage values and have increased their vulnerability to natural hazards such as earthquakes, landslides and floods. Several catastrophic disasters in recent years as Mumbai floods of 2005, Hurricane Katrina affecting New Orleans in 2005, Christchurch, Haiti and Chile Earthquakes of 2010 and recent Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and Thailand Floods in 2011 have caused extensive damage to rich cultural heritage located in these areas.
Application Deadline: 19 May, 2012
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