Study on the restortion and conservation of historic environment of World Heritage Sites in Nepal and reorganization of statutory systems for heritage preservation

The earthquake hit World Heritage sites in Kathmandu valley in April 2015. Along the post desaster reconstruction proces, it became clear that there were no statutory tools to protect area-bsed heritage rather than individual monument. The study reinforced improvements of legal system for historic conservation and provided local governments with design guidelines for reconstruction of historic houses in the core area of both inscribed World Heritage sites and sites in the tentative list. Moreover,the study proposed the networking system of Heritage cities in the Kathmandu Valley mobilizing mayors of the cities and improving local ordinances for the resoration and reconstruction of heritage buildings. Also the outcome of the study ennabled local engineers to meet reglarly to share the technical findings and problems of each city and aaplication of the proposed design guidelines with our help and initialives.