Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage? / Ksenia Chmutina and Rohit Jigyasu -- Disaster Risk Management Terms and Concepts / Lee Bosher -- Role of Intangible Attributes of Heritage in Disaster Risk Reduction / Sukrit Sen -- A new approach to cultural heritage and disaster risk reduction : a review of international policies / Giovanni Boccardi -- Financing Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage / Barbara Minguez Garcia -- Heritage and Peacebuilding / Elke Selter -- Cultural Heritage, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management / Will Megary -- Cultural heritage and urbanisation / Ebru Gencer -- Vernacular Built Heritage and Disaster Resilience / Rajendra Desai -- Risk Management / Sukhreet Bajwa, Tanaya Sarmah, Ranit Chatterjee and Rajib Shaw -- All Fired Up : The Inseparability of Nature and Culture in Disaster Risk Management / Steve Brown -- The Dangers of Romanticising Local Knowledge in the Context of Disaster Studies and Practice / Demet Intepe, Robert Sakic Trogrlic, Maria Evangelina Filippi, Thirze Hermans, Hannah Bailon and Anuzska Maton -- Challenges with techno-centric approaches in the implementation of Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage / David Torres and Giuseppe Forino -- Development and cultural heritage in the disaster capitalism era / Victor Marchezini, Andrea Lampis, Danilo Celso Pereira and Adriano Mota Ferreira -- Cultural Heritage and Post-Disaster Recovery / Wesley Cheek -- Reconstruction as recovery :The politics behind why heritage is funded internationally, nationally, and locally / Vanicka Arora -- 'Dark heritage' : landscape, hazard, and heritage / Jazmin Scarlett, Miriam Rothenberg, Felix Riede and Karen Holmberg -- Arts and other Cultural Expressions as Tools for Disaster Risk Management / Claudia González-Muzzio, Claudia Cardenas and Bernadette Esquivel -- Planning for Disasters facing Heritage at Risk: Ethics and Epistemes / Fallon S. Aidoo -- New Technologies and Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Properties / Hirofumi Ikawa -- Integrating DRM considerations into heritage management systems : barriers and opportunities / Luisa De Marco -- Building Synergies for Cultural Heritage : insights from theory and practice / Monia del Pinto and Clinton Dean Jackson -- Challenges and Opportunties / Rohit Jigyasu and Ksenia Chmutina.

"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. This Handbook explores a wide range of topics and themes, such as climate change, conflict, urbanisation, the role of community and explores the relationships with a range of sectors such as governance and policy, finance, infrastructure, shelter, and urban planning. It also presents critiques on some of the issues that are often taken for granted, including technocratic approaches, nature/culture binary, the romanticisation of traditional knowledges and the role of recovery and reconstruction. Insights into the future are also presenting, concluding 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"-- Provided by publisher.