Project description
Data -driven and community based resilience improvement of historic areas
Climate change can have severe negative effects on cultural heritage. Protection and conservation of historic sites demand new tools to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability. The EU-funded SHELTER project will develop a data-driven knowledge framework based on data used by scientists and heritage managers. The project will attempt to understand the direct and indirect impact as well as the risks of climate change on historic sites. It will also associate concepts used in risk management and climate change adaptations to cultural heritage efforts. Regional characteristics and different types of risks as well as social and economic conditions will be considered to incorporate climate resilience in cultural heritage management efforts with validation in five open-labs.
Objective
Over the last decades, as a consequence of the effects of climate change, cultural heritage has been impacted by an increasing number of climate related hazards, posing new challenges to conservators and heritage managers. SHELTER aims at developing a data driven and community based knowledge framework that will bring together the scientific community and heritage managers with the objective of increasing resilience, reducing vulnerability and promoting better and safer reconstruction in historic areas. The first step to enhance resilience is associated to the improvement in understanding the direct and indirect impacts of climatic and environmental changes and natural hazards on historic sites and buildings, by linking concepts commonly used in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation with cultural heritage management, in order to provide inclusive and informed decision-making. Comprehensive disaster risk management plans need to be drawn up, based on the specific characteristics of cultural heritage and the nature of the hazards within a regional context, taking into account the diverse heritage typologies as well as the specific socioeconomic conditions, since this directly affect the vulnerability of such systems. By a deep understanding of the hazard, the exposure and the vulnerability of the historic area, the local dynamics and the provision of innovative governance and community based models, it is possible to provide useful methodologies, tools and strategies to enhance resilience and secure sustainable reconstruction. Due to the information complexity and the diverse data sources, SHELTER framework will be implemented in multiscale and multisource data driven platform, able to provide the necessary information for planning and adaptive governance. All the developments of the project will be validated in 5 open-labs, representative of main climatic and environmental challenges in Europe and different heritage’s typologies.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.5. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.5.6. - Cultural heritage
- H2020-EU.3.5.1.2. - Assess impacts, vulnerabilities and develop innovative cost-effective adaptation and risk prevention and management measures
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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Participants (24)
40126 Bologna
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75007 Paris
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10129 Torino
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4000 Liege
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48940 Leioa
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601 77 Brno
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2611 AX Delft
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10138 Torino
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1190 Wien
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Participation ended
36100 Vicenza
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35122 Padova
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06800 Cankaya Ankara
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64600 Anglet
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1010 Wien
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44121 Ferrara
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35136 Padova Pd
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01510 Miñano
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35460 Seferihisar Izmir
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10000 Zagreb
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3311 GR Dordrecht
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15891 Santiago De Compostela
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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20135 Milano
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W6 7NL LONDON
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