ABSTRACT
Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage is a relatively new area of disaster risk scholarship and practice. Several countries, such as Myanmar and Bhutan have taken initiatives towards preparing disaster risk management plans tailored to the characteristics of their cultural heritage sites and addressing the constraints and opportunities offered by them. The challenges are manyfold and require collective action as well as appreciation of both disaster risk management and cultural heritage from an interdisciplinary perspective, through inter-governmental coordination and support of various national and international actors. Vulnerability and capacity assessments have become popular in disaster risk management of cultural heritage; if carried out appropriately, taking local context into account, they can play an essential role in enhancing local people's confidence making their opinions heard and taken into account. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
