Natural Disaster and Intangible Heritage: Beyond the Horizon

When 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in 2015, many monuments, temples and houses turned into rubbles killing more than 8,000 people and injuring above 21,000. This unfortunate and tragic natural disaster brought international attention to Nepal. But in this time of despair and pain there was a sign of hope that should be acknowledged well, the spirit of community facing the disaster. This paper is about the indigenous community of Kathmandu on how they organized an important traditional festival just four months after the disaster when most the people were still living in the makeshifts, along with the smaller aftershock continuing almost everyday. In the country like Nepal with numerous intangible heritages, which is, still living is not taken seriously by the concerned authorities and mostly been neglected. It is the indigenous community who has been carrying out those heritages, as they are inseparable aspect of the social life. With this paper it tries look at the community involvement and intangible heritage of Kathmandu Valley, which is a part of my PhD research thesis.UID/HIS/00057/2013 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007702

Rehabilitation of abandoned villages through tourism: a solution for sustainable heritage development?

Villages which have been abandoned during recent decades as a result of migration from rural areas constitute a serious problem which is all too common in many European countries. The aim of this paper is to examine the problem in Portugal and conduct a comparative study of four villages, set in a range of geographical and socio-economic contexts, which have been rehabilitated. These villages are associated with: different types of vernacular architecture; different types of traditional landscape; contrasting topographic contexts; and different causes of rural abandonment. The findings of this study point to the main requirements for improvement and recommendations are made for suitable developments in terms of the heritage in its broadest sense, including the surrounding landscape. Heritage character is not only important for the preservation of local identity but may also be associated with products and services which are marketed and is thus an essential factor for the socio-economic sustainability of rehabilitated villages.CIDEHUS centre and IIFA institute of Évora University , European Union FEDR, COMPETE and QREN, Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)

Black Carbon (BC) and Dust mass concentration measures at North Atlantic Free Troposphere

7th International Aerosol Conference. St. Paul, Minnesota, 10-15 September 2006.The PICO-NARE observatory is an experimental site on the Pico Island (38.470º; 28.404º; 2225 m altitude) in the Azores Archipelago, developed to provide a base for free troposphere measurements (Richard & Fialho, 2002). One Aethalometer (AE31) was used to determine the aerosol seasonal variability for the Central North Atlantic region. Application of the separation technique, proposed by Fialho et al. (2005,2006), aloud the establishment of the seasonal cycles for BC and Dust

Le Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel et le Role d’Institutions Publiques dans l’Implementation d’Inventaires: Actes du Séminaire International, Université d’Évora, 22 Juin 2007

La publication est le résultat d’un séminaire international tenu à Évora (juin 2007) dévoué au Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel dans le contexte d’un projet européen «MEDINS – Identity is future: The Mediterranean Intangible Space» (2006-2008). Ces textes sont des diverses contributions des différents partenaires du projet

Ethics in Intangible Cultural Heritage Public Policies: Interview with Marc Jacobs

Desde que foi adoptada (2003), a Convenção para a Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial da UNESCO continua a suscitar interrogações e a constituir um campo de negociação quanto à sua implementação nas políticas públicas do património cultural dos países que ratificaram o documento. As questões éticas estão actualmente no centro da discussão com a recente adopção de 12 princípios éticos que pretendem guiar as estratégias de salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial. Nesta entrevista com Marc Jacobs, realizada durante a sua visita à Universidade de Évora, reflectimos sobre o impacto da Convenção para a Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial nas políticas nacionais, os seus problemas e oportunidades. Marc Jacobs (1963) é Professor de Estudos Críticos de Património na Vrije Universiteit Brussel. É desde 2008 director da Faro (Flemish Interface Centre for Cultural Heritage), uma organização belga para o sector do património cultural (material e imaterial). É desde 2014 o coordenador da UNESCO Chair em Critical Heritage Studies na Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Participou na qualidade de representante da Bélgica na redacção da Convenção para a Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial (2003) e em vários grupos de trabalho durante o primeiro Comité Intergovernamental da Convenção (2006-2008).CIDEHUS - UID/HIS/00057/2013 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007702

Heritages and Memories from the Sea

These are the proceedings of the first international conference organised by the UNESCO Chair in Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know-How: Linking Heritage, dedicated to the theme “Heritages and Memories from the Sea”. This international meeting, as well as the chosen theme, seeks to address the need to discuss the present situation of sea heritage, deconstructing past ideological representations with a view to developing a sense of a common history and a shared future. In the following lines, we would like to explain this choice more clearly. Part of Portuguese, European and world history was built around the capacity to access the sea and control maritime routes. To look no farther, the Romans were organised around a sea they called their own, the city-states of Italy and the North Sea left their mark on history by controlling maritime traffic, and the European colonial empires were largely maintained by their ability to control trade routes and strategic areas such as straits. In the Indian Ocean, the Omanis and many Indian states, as well as the Chinese in their cyclical expansionist movements, also regarded the sea as a key element in their strategic policy

Comparison of Elemental Carbon (EC) and Black Carbon (BC) measurements derived by Thermo-Optical and filter-based light transmission techniques at North Atlantic.

7th International Aerosol Conference. St. Paul, Minnesota, 10-15 September 2006.Terceira Island (38.691º; 27.354º; 50 m altitude) in the Azores Archipelago, developed to provide a base for remote marine boundary layer measurements at a location near the PICO-NARE (Honrath & Fialho, 2002) (Figure 1). In order to determine a long term carbonaceous component of atmospheric aerosols in North Atlantic, measurements of aerosol BC and EC were begun in 2002. EC and BC define similar fraction of the carbonaceous component of atmospheric aerosols and are supposed to be comparable, but have a delicate different thermal, optical and chemical behaviour in most cases (Lavanchy et al., 1999)