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The Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on World Heritage and the New Opportunities
Introduction: The unprecedented crisis arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has had, and continues to have, major impacts on World Heritage properties globally. Among them have been the closure of World Heritage properties resulting in socio-economic impacts, disruption of community life in and around prope... -
Sustainable Urbanization and Tourism amid COVID-19 Crisis
Introduction: COVID-19 Pandemic started as a health crisis, but soon became humanitarian and socioeconomic crisis as well. At macro-level, it impacted global and national economies thereby plunging them into deep contraction and it is clear the world is losing its hard-won development gains in the last decade or... -
Towards a “Place Based Approach” for Managing Disaster Risks and Building Resilience of World Herita...
Introduction: World Heritage Properties are exposed to many natural and human induced hazards, such as earthquakes, floods, fires, typhoons, vandalism etc. The ongoing COVID 19 Pandemic has shown the direct and indirect impacts of bio-hazards on World Heritage properties. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of ...