Normatividad en el INAH para la prevención y atención de riesgos naturales y antropogénicos

Abstract

The September 2017 earthquakes in Mexico, whose epicenter were, for the first one, in the state of Chiapas and, to the second one, between the border of the states of Morelos and Puebla, caused a serious damage to the social and cultural heritage of 11 states of the Mexican Republic. The population and government entities reaction was immediate, but the recovery of the affected areas is not still achieved. Mexico has legal documents and juridical procedure focused mainly on civil protection that regulate actions to attend to the population in disaster areas. However, still we cannot talk about a culture of prevention in zones of risk. The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) is a cultural pioneering institution in the protection and attention of cultural property in zone of natural and anthropogenic risks. This article presents a counting of the normative resources of the Institute in order to attend the cultural heritage affected in disaster areas.