On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, philip buckle wrote:
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But concentrating upon "natural hazards" itself is limiting. Apart us
ignoring anthropogenic hazards, the central focus of hazards/risk study
is the interaction of the hazard with society, study of the consequences
and repercussions and ways of dealing with those. This moves the subject
area away from the hazard and so also moves this debate.
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This is very much the position finally reached within the International
Committee of the Blue Shield - the standing emergency cooperation
committee of the UNESCO-linked NGOs for professionals in archives (ICA),
libraries (IFLA), museums (ICOM), and sites & monuments (ICOMOS), which
now has formal intergovernmental recognition alongside the International
Committee of the Red Cross in the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague
Convention (an important part of the customary Laws of War, alongside the
Geneva Conventions).
Examining all possibilities from the point of view of risk to both
cultural property and natural sites and parks, we concluded that in reality
there is virtually nothing that could happen to cultural monuments, sites,
institutions or collections in war that could not equally result from
either natural or civil disasters, (the only possible exception being
large-scale nuclear radiation).
Similarly, the basic principles are the same regardless of the type of
hazard:
1. preparedness (in advance of any emergency)
2. response (during the emergency), and
3. recovery (after the immediate event is over).
Patrick J. Boylan
(Professor of Heritage Policy and Management & Head of NGO
Delegation, 1999 Hague Diplomatic Conference)
City University, London,
Department of Arts Policy and Management
Frobisher Crescent, Barbican, London EC2Y 8HB, UK;
phone: +44-20-7477.8750, fax:+44-20-7477.8887;
Home: "The Deepings", Gun Lane, Knebworth, Herts. SG3 6BJ, UK;
phone & fax: +44-1438-812.658;
E-mail: [log in to unmask]; Web site: http://www.city.ac.uk/artspol/
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