- Title
- Maintaining place: resilience as a means of protecting cultural built heritage in the face of natural disasters, a theoretical overview
- Creator
- Mackee, Jamie; Askland, Hedda Haugen; Askew, Louise
- Relation
- RICS COBRA 2012. RICS COBRA 2012: Proceedings of the Construction, Building and Real Estate Conference (Las Vegas, Nevada 11-13 September, 2012) p. 283-290
- Relation
- http://www.rics.org/au/knowledge/research/conference-papers
- Publisher
- Arizona State University
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Over the past decades, many parts of the world have been subject to various natural disasters, including the 1995 Kobe (Japan) and 2011 Christchurch (New Zealand) earthquakes; tropical cyclones Larry (2006) and Yasi (2011), Queensland (2010-11) floods, the Ash Wednesday (1983) and Black Sunday (2009) fires in Australia; hurricane Katrina (2005) in USA; and, the tsunamis in South and Southeast Asia (2004) and Japan (2011). Natural disasters such as these appear to be a feature of the global climate and landscape, and they continue to pose economic, social and environmental challenges to many nations. Disaster responses have often focused on the built environment, health and social factors. However, as identified in a number of key reports, cultural values, such as cultural built heritage (CBH), are also likely to be affected by natural catastrophes. Considering the historical, national and communal implications of CBH, there has been surprisingly little debate and research on the question of how to protect CBH from risks posed by changing climate and increased natural hazards. Building upon a review of existing scholarship on CBH, resilience, and disaster recovery, this paper proposes an alternative strategy for preparing, recovering and conserving CBH. Resilience is explored as a means of developing strategies for recovering and preparing the CBH.
- Subject
- cultural built heritage; disaster recovery; natural disasters; resilience
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055099
- Identifier
- uon:15837
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781842198407
- Language
- eng
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