Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters

Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters: Risk Preparedness and the Limits of Prevention 19 changes in the structure and the appe ...

20 Thomas Will, Hans-Rudolf Meier more cost effective in some situations than ambitious retrofitting techniques.19 Heritage con ...

I. Disasters and Society: The Task of Prevention Katastrophe und Gesellschaft: Prävention als Aufgabe Mantua, Giulio Romano, Pal ...

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»only man experiences disasters, to the extent that he survives them. disasters are unknown in nature,« writes Max Frisch in his ...

24 Hans-Rudolf Meier original meaning of the word catastrophe: in classical literature καταστροφη, starting with the basic meani ...

The Cultural Heritage of the Natural Disaster 25 later; at this point mention need only be made of the misuse of financial aid, ...

26 Hans-Rudolf Meier accounts via cell phone or webcam from the tsunami or at the burning towers of the World trade Center in ne ...

The Cultural Heritage of the Natural Disaster 27 to engravings by Matthäus Merian.12 at the same time the paper announced that i ...

28 Hans-Rudolf Meier the earthquake and had not himself seen the extent of the destruction—to say nothing of the event itself— s ...

The Cultural Heritage of the Natural Disaster 29 images—that is, as long as even newer images of the event are being distributed ...

30 Hans-Rudolf Meier its inability to provide sufficient help on its own on the other hand (Venezuela’s assistance after the flo ...

The Cultural Heritage of the Natural Disaster 31 Interpretation and symbolic prevention In a different way than historiography, ...

32 Hans-Rudolf Meier for instance in luke 21:10–11 (to which the chronicles of the Basel earthquake then made reference): »natio ...

The Cultural Heritage of the Natural Disaster 33 Interesting in this context—and noteworthy with regard to our own perceptions ( ...

34 Hans-Rudolf Meier of the territory to be protected. another form of ward- ing off disasters spatially through symbolic preven ...

The Cultural Heritage of the Natural Disaster 35 of disasters and secular actions coexisted in the belief that future disasters ...

36 Hans-Rudolf Meier of course touched upon something that is a problem from the preservationist’s point of view: the disaster a ...

The Cultural Heritage of the Natural Disaster 37 traditional techniques in tamil nadu after the tsunami (fig. 11).42 The euphori ...

38 Hans-Rudolf Meier day-to-day prevention-oriented behavior has evolved, but so has the experience of dealing with disasters. T ...