Analysing the possible impact of landslides and avalanches on cultural heritage in Upper Svaneti, Georgia

Journal of Cultural Heritage

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 453-461

  Alcaraz Tarragüel, Antoni ^a   Krol, Bart ^a   van Westen, Cees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Avalanches; Conservation index; Cultural heritage; Georgia; Landslides; Local knowledge; Management plans; Multihazard mapping; SMCE

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867720078     PISSN: 12962074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2012.01.012     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Canuti P., Margottini C., Fanti R., Bromhead E.N. Cultural Heritage and Landslides: Research for Risk Prevention and Conservation. Landslides-Disaster Risk Reduction 2009, 401-433. Springer Heidelberg, Berlin. K. Sassa, P. Canuti (Eds.).
2. Global Heritage Fund, Saving Our Vanishing Heritage: Challenges to and Solutions for Preserving Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites in the Developing World, 2009. http://www.globalheritagefund.org.
3. Lollino G., Audisio C. UNESCO World Heritage sites in Italy affected by geological problems, specifically landslide and flood hazard. Landslides 2006, 3:311-321.
4. Fukuoka H., Sassa K., Wang G., Wang F., Wang Y., Tian Y. Landslide Risk Assessment and Disaster Management in the Imperial Resort Palace of Lishan, Xian, China (C101-4). Landslides, 2005, 81-89. Springer Heidelberg, Berlin. K. Sassa, H. Fukuoka, F. Wang, G. Wang (Eds.).
5. Gizzi F.T. Identifying geological and geotechnical influences that threaten historical sites: a method to evaluate the usefulness of data already available. J. Cult. Herit. 2008, 9:302-310.
6. Iriarte E., Sánchez M.á., Foyo A., Tomillo C. Geological risk assessment for cultural heritage conservation in karstic caves. J. Cult. Herit. 2010, 11:250-258.
7. Lanza S.G. Flood hazard threat on cultural heritage in the town of Genoa (Italy). J. Cult. Herit. 2003, 4:159-167.
8. Sánchez M.A., Foyo A., Tomillo C., Iriarte E. Geological risk assessment of the area surrounding Altamira cave: a proposed natural risk index and safety factor for protection of prehistoric caves. Eng. Geol. 2007, 94:180-200.
9. Shapira N.H. Earthquakes and art preservation: a view from the San Andreas fault. Sci. Total Environ. 1986, 56:401-410.
10. Bromhead E.N., Canuti P., Ibsen M.L. Landslides and cultural heritage. Landslides 2006, 3:273-274.
11. J. Taboroff, Natural Disasters and Urban Cultural Heritage: A Reassessment, in: Kreimer, Arnold, Carlin, (Eds), Building Safer Cities: The Future of Disaster Risk, The World Bank, Disaster Risk Management, Series no. 3, 2003, pp. 233-40.
12. Lazzari M., Danese M., Masini N. A new GIS-based integrated approach to analyse the anthropic-geomorphological risk and recover the vernacular architecture. J. Cult. Herit. 2009, 10:e104-e111.
13. D. D'Ayala, E. Speranza, An integrated procedure for the assessment of seismic vulnerability of historic buildings, Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paper No.561, London, 2002.
14. Grinzato E., Bison P.G., Marinetti S. Monitoring of ancient buildings by the thermal method. J. Cult. Herit. 2002, 3:21-29.
15. Georgia Protected Areas Development Project (GPAP), Upper Svaneti Protected Areas Management Plan, Tbilisi, 2008.
16. UNESCO, World Heritage List. Upper Svaneti, 2010. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/709.
17. Gonçalves L., Fonte C.C., Júlio E.N.B.S., Caetano M. Assessment of the state of conservation of buildings through roof mapping using very high spatial resolution images. Construct. Building Mat. 2009, 23:2795-2802.
18. ICOMOS, Village Chazhashi, Ushguli Community, Upper Svaneti. World Heritage Site, Conservation Plan, ICOMOS Georgian National Committee.Tbilisi, 2001a.
19. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Environmental Impacts on Historical and Cultural Monuments. Measures to Protect Cultural Heritage, 2002 National Report on the State of the Environment in Armenia, 2003. http://www.unece.org/env/europe/monitoring/Armenia/en/Part%20III%20-%20Ch.%201.pdf.
20. Fell R., Corominas J., Bonnard C., Cascini L., Leroi E., Savage W.Z. Guidelines for landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk zoning for land use planning. Eng. Geol. 2008, 102:85-98.
21. Ayalew L., Yamagishi H., Marui H., Kanno T. Landslides in Sado Island of Japan: part II. GIS-based susceptibility mapping with comparisons of results from two methods and verifications. Eng. Geol. 2005, 81:432-445.
22. Castellanos Abella E.A., Van Westen C.J. Qualitative landslide susceptibility assessment by multicriteria analysis: a case study from San Antonio del Sur, Guantánamo, Cuba. Geomorphology 2008, 94:453-466.
23. Maggioni M., Gruber U. The influence of topographic parameters on avalanche release dimension and frequency. Cold Reg. Sci. Technol. 2003, 37:407-419.
24. Meier H.R., Will T. Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters: Risk Preparedness and the Limits of Prevention ICOMOS. Heritage At Risk 2007, Special Edition, Dresden.
25. J. Taboroff, Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters: Incentives for Risk Management and Mitigation, in: Kreimer, Arnold, (Eds), Managing Disaster Risk in Emerging Economies, The World Bank, Disaster Risk Management, Series no. 2, 2000, pp. 233-40.
26. K.J. Abhas, Cultural Heritage Conservation, in: World Bank, (Ed), Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters, Washington, 2010, pp. 173-79.
27. ICOMOS, Village Chazhashi, Ushguli Community, Upper Svaneti. Strategic Objectives for the Site Development, ICOMOS Georgian National Committee. Tbilisi, 2001b.
28. Spennemann D.H.R. Risk assessments in heritage planning in Victoria and New South Wales: a survey of conservation plans and heritage studies. Australas. J. Environ. Manage. 2005, 12:89-96.
29. B. Wisner, Let Our Children Teach Us! A review of the Role of Education and Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR), 135 p, 2006.