Disaster Risk at the World Heritage in Mountains：Huascarán

Mountains have inspired people and often been considered sacred. Over the past 40 years, the World Heritage of Mountain sites in general are exposed to the impacts of natural catastrophic events, which is not only affecting their biodiversity, geo-diversity and other exceptional natural features, but also making indigenous people and local communities, who are the custodians of these mountain landscapes, more vulnerable. In this paper, we have analyzed the loss or deterioration of the precious biodiversity of Huascarán National Park in the upstream regions, as well as the high risk area named Huaraz in the lower regions. We have tried to apply the visual remote sense technology to analyze its surface temperature and hydrology and to explore the reasonable disaster risk management and disaster resilience and self-healing capability approach for Huascarán National Park and Huaraz. This will create a strong foundation for providing valuable renewable natural resources for the upstream regions of mountain heritage sites, and real safe homelands for the lower regions of downstream cities and villages, and will lead us to find the potential of man and nature to resist disasters together.