Resilience of Historic Residential Areas Subjected to Natural Disasters

Abstract

The paper presents decision support tools developed for municipalities and historic city managers. These exploit the categorization of cultural heritage assets according to their vulnerability in disaster situations. A manual guiding individual cultural heritage owners, users and other citizens of historic areas provides advices on how to prevent or reduce damage and loss to cultural heritage. The recommendations cover pre-disaster, during as well as post-disaster situations and concern both built and moveable heritage. All measures are illustrated with examples taken during real disaster situations. The methodology has been tested during the international research project “ProteCHt2save” supported under the Interreg CE program.

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