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, with 22 contributions from leading scholars and practitioners. It explores the various contexts, challenges, and future prospects of cultural heritage and disaster risk management, including climate change, conflict, urbanization, and the role of community.

Format: Hardback
Length: 332 pages
Publication date: 27 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the intersections between cultural heritage and disaster risks. It serves as a defining reference, presenting the key concepts and policy arena that disaster risk management and cultural heritage currently operate. With 22 contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in the field, chapters explore the various contexts for cultural heritage and disaster risk management, illustrated through case studies from around the world. The Handbook is organized into 4 parts: Part 1 includes Disaster Risk Management and Cultural Heritage, Part 2 helps to Understanding the context, Part 3 focuses on the challenges, and Part 4 delves deep into the future prospects. This Handbook provides insights into a wide range of topics and themes, such as climate change, conflict, urbanization, the role of community, and examines the relationships with a range of sectors such as governance and policy, finance, infrastructure, shelter, and urban planning. It also presents critiques on issues that are often taken for granted, including technocratic approaches, the nature/culture binary, the romanticization of traditional knowledges, and the role of recovery and reconstruction. Insights into the future are also presented, and the Handbook concludes with a detailed agenda of proposed action to be taken in the field. Offering critical reflections on the topic, this book caters to students, researchers, professionals, and policy makers in the fields of disaster studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, conservation, and geography.

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

It serves as a defining reference, presenting the key concepts and policy arena that disaster risk management and cultural heritage currently operate.

With 22 contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in the field, chapters explore the various contexts for cultural heritage and disaster risk management, illustrated through case studies from around the world.

The Handbook is organized into 4 parts:

Part 1 includes Disaster Risk Management and Cultural Heritage.

Part 2 helps to Understanding the context.

Part 3 focuses on the challenges.

Part 4 delves deep into the future prospects.

This Handbook provides insights into a wide range of topics and themes, such as climate change, conflict, urbanization, the role of community, and examines the relationships with a range of sectors such as governance and policy, finance, infrastructure, shelter, and urban planning.

It also presents critiques on issues that are often taken for granted, including technocratic approaches, the nature/culture binary, the romanticization of traditional knowledges, and the role of recovery and reconstruction.

Insights into the future are also presented, and the Handbook concludes with a detailed agenda of proposed action to be taken in the field.

Offering critical reflections on the topic, this book caters to students, researchers, professionals, and policy makers in the fields of disaster studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, conservation, and geography.

Weight: 810g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032274805