Improving Cultural Heritage Resilience to Rapid and Slow Onset Disasters. Approaches, Methods, Experiences
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 3004
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resilience of built environment to climate change; sustainable strategies and solutions for energy retrofitting; retrofitting of architectural cultural heritage; urban heat islands in the built environment; VR tools applied to architectural heritage; CityGML for architectural heritage
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Interests: sustainable and resilient development; urban and regional science; urban and spatial planning; spatial cognition and spatial thinking; decision support systems; fuzzy cognitive mapping; complex adaptive systems; agent based modeling; disaster and risk planning and management
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Interests: design and management of ground&satellite based geomatics systems for monitoring infrastructures and the territory; integration and analysis of high-resolution datasets for the evaluation and control of instability phenomena
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent critical events, both of natural and anthropic origin, highlighted the increasing exposure of the cultural heritage to these potentially catastrophic occurrences. Although disasters affect all the city land, nevertheless the inherent and generated vulnerabilities of such critical part of the cities, the higher exposure to threats and the historical criticalities in their managing decrease the total amount of its resilience. On the other hand, if several studies on traditional threats (e.g., seismic) have been already discussed in the literature, further anthropic (e.g., terrorism) or natural (climate change) disasters are still lacking or are increasing in scientific studies also highlighting the necessity to introduce multi-disciplinary approaches useful for their management, involving different expertise and tools. This is also exacerbated studying strategies and solutions in a multi-risk perspective, where their full compatibility should be fitted with their coherence with other (simultaneous or not) events.
In this frame, this Special Issue wants to promote innovative opportunities for scientific exchange about theoretical frameworks, tools and methods for assessing and improving the resilience of cities to hazards including (but not limited to):
- computational analysis
- building refurbishment and management
- agent-based models
- Decision Support Systems
- geomatics methodologies aimed at surveying and monitoring historic centers
- advanced techniques for risk assessment and management
- awareness and preparedness of users
- methods for enhancing social resilience resources and improving community organization
This, with a multi-risk perspective on the cultural heritage and toward a risk-informed sustainable development, aims to identify, understand, evaluate and prioritize solutions and actions oriented to plan, prevent, protect, monitoring, adapt or transform such built environments, improving their performances. Furthermore, in order to orient disaster management, improving decision-making, procedures and operations for the preparedness, emergency response, as well the build back better phase is essential. This is fundamental for the involvement of experts and foster in spreading of scientific results in the field of the preservation of cities and their historic and cultural parts prone to natural and human-made disasters, highlighting the impacts on urban users and the vulnerability of the built environment.
Dr. Elena Cantatore
Dr. Dario Esposito
Dr. Alberico Sonnessa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban built environment
- Slow-Onset Disasters (SOD)
- Rapid-Onset Disasters (ROD)
- human spatial behaviour
- urban resilience
- Cultural Heritage
- geomatics monitoring and modelling for historic centres
- decision support systems
- urban planning
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