Symposium on ‘Protecting World Cultural Heritage Sites and Their Historic Urban Environment from Earthquakes’ held in Nepal |
PublishDate:2009-02-24 Hits:2502 |
Kathmandu Symposium on ‘Protecting World Cultural Heritage Sites and Their Historic Urban Environment from Earthquakes’ was organized by Ritsumeikan University’s Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage (Rits-DMUCH) in cooperation with UNESCO Kathmandu Office and the Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, from 16th to 19th February 2009. The symposium focused on the World Cultural Heritage Sites in historic areas, exposed to the risk of earthquakes. It took Kathmandu Valley and Kyoto as cases to illustrate the challenges from fast pace of urbanization, population growth, disassembly of indigenous community as well as the loss of traditional knowledge. Through extended discussions among experts from UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOMOS ICORP, Australia, Bhutan, Canada, China, India, Peru, Japan and Nepal, as well as on-site visit of the World Heritage Monument Zones in Kathmandu Valley, the future research needs and pragmatic approaches as well as methodologies were proposed in the form of Kathmandu Recommendation (draft).
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