UNESCO Chair Program on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management: International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2014
Recent disasters in North East of Japan and Christchurch in New Zealand as well as destructive earthquakes that hit Haiti and Chile in 2010 have caused enormous loss of life, property and cultural heritage. This disaster has once again shown ...
International Archaeology Day: Call for Collaborators
04-Sep-2014 - 18-Oct-2014
International Symposium & Training Course on the Historic Urban Landscape
06-Aug-2014 - 25-Sep-2014
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New Online Master’s Degree offered in the Management of African World Heritage
28-Jul-2014 - 01-Oct-2014
The Course
According to the Emergency Events database EM-DAT, from 2000-2012, around 2.9 billion people were adversely affected by disasters caused by natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, floods, storms etc.). Another 1.5 billion people are living in countries afflicted with civil strife and violent conflicts, states the World Development Report of 2011. The resultant damage and loss to life ...