Publicomos

Réf.

41943

Type

chapter

Titre

Beware! Prepare! Stay alert!

Langues

English

Auteurs

Riddett, Robyn

Auteurs institutionnels

ICOMOS ICORP (International Committee on Risk Preparedness) / ICOMOS Spain

Lieu de publication

Madrid

Pays de publication

Spain

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS Spain

Date

2002

Pages

p. 260-263

Titre de la source

Estrategias relativas al patrimonio cultural mundial. La salvaguarda en un mundo globalizado. Principios, practicas y perspectivas. 13th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium. Actas

Titre de conférence

ICOMOS 13th General Assembly: Strategies for the World’s Cultural Heritage - Preservation in a Globalised World - Principles, Practices, Perspectives

Lieu de conférence

Madrid, Spain

Date de conférence

1-5 December 2002

Mots-clés

natural disasters / risk preparedness / conservation of cultural heritage / causes of deterioration / climate change / disaster management / non-governmental organizations

Résumé en anglais

An unprecedented number of natural disasters occurred at the turn of the twentieth century which caused havoc and the destruction of societies and cultural heritage.Earthquakes hit Turkey, Taiwan, Greece, Seattle (USA) and Puebla (Mexico); a cyanide spill flowed through Romania, severe bushfires whipped through part of Sydney and the Blue Mountains (Australia); cyclones ripped through HongKong; the Caribbean and south-east United States; severe storms hit France, damaging the Palace of Versailles and Sainte Chapelle before heading east through Italy, Switzerland and Austria; mudslides buried towns in Venezuela and the Philippines; a tsunami swamped the Sissano Lagoon (Papua New Guinea) and heavy rainfall caused floods which inundated parts of China, South Asia and elsewhere, while flash flooding occurred at Interlaken (Switzerland). Man-made accidents, civil disturbance, terrorism and warfare all added to the worldwide toll of destruction. The Bamiyan Buddhas (Afghanistan) were destroyed by the Taliban, the Balkans war waged an assault on many cultural monuments and the destruction of the World Trade Center (New York) left an understanding of our vulnerability to catastrophe.

URL

http://international.icomos.org/madrid2002/actas/260.pdf

Document joint

260.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

Document source

44337 - Spanish #44337