Three Key Questions on Culture, Cultural Heritage and Climate Change

52 savingculturalheritage.eu Bratislava Castle in Bratislava, Slovak Republic [ARCH Project (photo: Daniel Lückerath)] ARCH Project Advancing Resilience of Historic Areas against Climate-related and Other Hazard Project Leader: Fraunhofer-Institut für Intelligente Analyse – und Informationssysteme IAIS Time Duration: 2019 – 2022 Countries Involved: France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain Keywords: Built Heritage, Data Collection, Evacuation Plans, Monitoring of Climate Impacts, Risk Management Description ARCH is a European-funded research project aimed at the better protection of cultural heritage from hazards and risks. The ARCH team with the cities of Bratislava, Camerino, Hamburg, and Valencia co-created tools to help cities save cultural heritage from climate change. The impacts of climate change are global and unprecedented in scale. Cities will face frequent extreme events in the future, and the risks for cultural heritage and historic urban centres due to climate change will also increase. Output ARCH developed a framework for assessing and managing the resilience of historic areas to climate change and natural hazards. Models, methods, datasets, and tools to improve decision-making were designed for local authorities and practitioners, the urban population, and national and international expert communities. These results have been collected in a resilience knowledge base, the ARCH HUB. Outputs of the project are: a conceptual resilience framework combining disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, and heritage management; an Information Management Systems for area condition and hazard information; a database of resilience measures, coupled to financing options; a tool to visually construct implementation plans for resilience measures; Methods and tools for impact and risk assessment; an online resilience self-assessment tool. All tools are finished and published. They can be accessed via the project website and the ARCH HUB (hub.savingculturalheritage.eu).

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