Paper details

Paper authors	Ann Bojsen
In panel on	The active role of Higher Education Institutes & local actors in understanding and responding to the needs of crisis-affected communities
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Research in disaster management clearly illustrates how cultural heritage is increasingly at risk from both natural and human-made hazards, as well as the effects of climate change. Despite a growing consensus that cultural heritage needs to be systematically embedded in risk assessments, cultural heritage assessments is still just considered as an overarching element that should be assessed, rather than a permanent key component of the assessments. What's more, there is a lack of methodological expansion in order to merge disaster assessment and cultural heritage.
So how do we, as scholars and teachers, embrace this challenge and how do we transfer the complexity of cultural heritage to the students, non-traditional knowledge actors and affected communities, in order to promote an approach that honour culture heritage in practice more than in theory and rhetoric?
These limitations and considerations serve as motivation for the introduction of the ACTOR framework (Assessing Cultural Threats, Obstacles and Resilience). The ACTOR model aims to emphasise the nexus between cultural heritage assessments and risk reduction or disaster recovery. Hence providing the disaster management students with a learning framework that considers how different impacts of cultural heritage affect disaster risk reduction, and how disasters and risk influence cultural heritage.

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