For me, and I believe for our society, the important thing is that we come
to an understanding about the real risks to which we and our property are
exposed.
Those risks are a variety of classes.
Natural hazards are a class of risks and should form the basis of it's own
specialization.
Would someone undertake the effort to create an outline of risk classes and
subcategories?
Christopher
>
>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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