Landslides and cultural heritage

Bromhead, E. N.; Canuti, Paolo; Ibsen, M.-L.

doi:10.1007/s10346-006-0062-z

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“…This programme involved several outstanding sites of universal natural and cultural value included in the UNESCO World Heritage List (Sassa 1998). Therefore, within this framework, the impact of landsliding on cultural heritage has been considered a main theme of recent research in the field of landslide risk (Canuti et al 2000;Manhart 2004;Margottini 2004;Chelli et al 2005;Bromhead et al 2006;Sdao and Simeone 2007;Tosatti 2008).…”

Section: Site Management Implicationsmentioning

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Slope Instability Processes Affecting the Pietra Di Bismantova Geosite (Northern Apennines, Italy)

Borgatti

Tosatti

2010

Geoheritage

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The Pietra di Bismantova, a vast biocalcarenite slab, is an impressive landmark and a unique feature in the gentle hilly landscape of the Reggio Emilia Apennines, Italy. It consists of a stratified calcareous rock type, rich in molluscs and other fossilised remains typical of a tropical climate. The site also has significant historical and cultural interests, including remains from Bronze Age and early Iron Age settlements. The perpendicular rock faces of the Pietra di Bismantova have for many years attracted rock climbers and hikers. Furthermore, the sheer calcareous walls are favoured sites for endemic plants and nesting of rare birds. Since the end of the last glaciation, the site has been subject to intense degradational processes affecting the rock slopes. Today, these pose serious problems for its conservation and the safety of visitors. The southern part is mainly affected by occasional rockfalls of varying magnitude. In contrast, the north-eastern part is much more jointed and dismembered and is subdivided into several loose blocks subject to slope movements with a complex style of activity. The results of a geomechanical and geomorphological survey are used to identify the area most prone to geomorphological hazards, particularly rockfalls. They show that the areas potentially most subject to landslides are the SE, NE and NW faces, where the rock parameters are poorest and degradational processes are particularly intense. Numerical modelling of rockfall phenomena indicates that the hazards are particularly high along the SE and W faces, where footpaths and climbing tracks are also located. Remedial measures should be introduced in these critical areas to stabilise the cliff and guarantee safe access for the numerous visitors to this geosite.

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Section: Site Management Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Slope Instability Processes Affecting the Pietra Di Bismantova Geosite (Northern Apennines, Italy)

Borgatti

Tosatti

2010

Geoheritage

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“…Rather, culture is entwined deeply within, and the edges of human activity embrace the contours of the scientific and the natural disaster, transforming the disaster into several overlapping intensities and temporalities, which become a point of entry for leisure and for meaning-making. Landslides and natural disasters are often taken as interrupters of cultural heritage, not necessarily sites of cultural heritage themselves (Bromhead, Canuti, & Ibsen, 2006; Canuti, Margottini, Fanti, & Bromhead, 2009). Disaster sites, and places generally, are meaningless without the culture or politics that are invested in them (Guggenheim, 2014).…”

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Falling in Place: Geoscience, Disaster, and Cultural Heritage at the Frank Slide, Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide

Vallee

2018

Space and Culture

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Grounded in a case study of the Frank Slide, Canada's Deadliest Rockslide, this article introduces a new perspective on disaster sites as socio-cultural entities by way of correlating the specific technicality of scientific research and management of disaster sites with a broader conceptual framework from within the social sciences and spatial theories. Heritage sites such as the Frank Slide are often understood as protected places that benefit the image of a sovereign nation (i.e., a "place-myth"). It is often assumed that heritage sites need protection from natural elements and from human interference. But the case of the Frank Slide is different, insofar as (a) it is a heritage site made out of the remnants of a terrifying disaster and (b) it is predicted to be further damaged when its ensuing rockslide follows (sometime between now and 5,000 years). This makes the case of the Frank Slide an intriguing one for an interdisciplinary study, since it is made up of various overlapping temporalities belonging to the measurement-time of scientific monitoring, commodity-time of the tourism industry, myth-time of national identity, durationtime of cultural memory, and the anticipation-time of further disaster. The analysis considers how these disparate activities contribute to the vitalization, devitalization, and revitalization of place, in such a way that challenges the "dark tourism" paradigm that has come to frame disaster sites. This article thus proposes a unique synthesis between these times and practices contained within them in order to elucidate and explore how various overlapping temporalities make up the visible and invisible materials of a place.

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“…The exceptions to this trend are few enough that they highlight the consistency with which in situ reconstruction has generally taken place. Some exceptions include the town of Pattonsburg, Missouri, USA, which was relocated after extensive flooding in 1993 (Passerini, 2001), the city of Plymouth, Montserrat, which Housing Reconstruction in Post-Disaster Haiti 3 was destroyed by volcanic eruptions in 1997 (Annen & Wagner, 2003), and the town of Craco, Italy, which was abandoned following recurrent landslides between 1950 and 1970 (Bromhead et al, 2006). Continuing this trajectory toward ensuring that cities are able to cope with and persist through disasters, the term 'resilience' has recently become a major theme in urban planning discourse and practice (Stumpp, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Will the City Rise Again? The Contested Geography of Housing Reconstruction in Post-Disaster Haiti

Hooper

2015

Housing Studies

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This paper examines the contested geography of post-disaster housing reconstruction in Haiti. Drawing on interviews with representatives of 48 organizations, it identifies three spatial preferences regarding reconstruction: urban, non-urban, and mixed. Organizations favoring urban versus non-urban rebuilding differed markedly in their financial resources and voice. Many intergovernmental organizations and large international non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-the organizations that most favored non-urban rebuilding-held relatively anti-urban perspectives. Small international and Haitian NGOs were more likely to see Port-au-Prince as a suitable site for reconstruction and express positive opinions about urban conditions more generally. The findings indicate that much of the formal housing reconstruction effort, particularly as led by large, well-funded and politically powerful organizations, will be directed to the urban periphery and countryside. This suggests Port-au-Prince may continue to face the same challenges of unplanned growth that have led some organizations to find it an undesirable setting for reconstruction in the first place.

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Landslides and cultural heritage

Cited by 14 publications

References 3 publications

Slope Instability Processes Affecting the Pietra Di Bismantova Geosite (Northern Apennines, Italy)

Slope Instability Processes Affecting the Pietra Di Bismantova Geosite (Northern Apennines, Italy)

Falling in Place: Geoscience, Disaster, and Cultural Heritage at the Frank Slide, Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide

Will the City Rise Again? The Contested Geography of Housing Reconstruction in Post-Disaster Haiti

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