Objective

ARCH developed a standardized disaster risk management framework for assessing and improving the resilience of historic areas to climate change-related and other hazards. To support decision-making at appropriate stages of the management cycle, different models, methods, tools, and datasets were designed and developed. These include:

• technological means of determining the condition of tangible and intangible cultural objects, as well as large historic areas; information management
• systems for georeferenced properties of historic areas and hazards;
• simulation models for what-if analysis, ageing and hazard simulation;
• an inventory of potential resilience enhancing and reconstruction measures, assessed for their performance;
• a risk-oriented vulnerability assessment methodology suitable for both policy makers and practitioners;
• a pathway design to plan the resilience enhancement and reconstruction of historic areas;
• an inventory of financing means, categorized according to their applicability in different contexts.

The applicability and relevance of the results was ensured through a co-creation process with local decision-makers, users and community members. This included the pilot cities Bratislava, Camerino, Hamburg, and Valencia. The results of the co-creation processes with the pilot cities were disseminated to a broader circle of other European municipalities and practitioners.

Project results

CWA 17727:2022 City Resilience Development – Guide to combine disaster risk management and climate change adaptation – Historic areas

Project duration

06/2019 – 06/2022

Project partners

• FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Germany)

•  ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (Germany)

• FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION (Spain)

• AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO

• SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE (Italy)

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAMERINO (Italy)

• ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA (Italy)

• SOGESCA s.r.l. (Italy)

• RESEARCH FOR SCIENCE, ART AND TECHNOLOGY (RFSAT) LIMITED (Ireland)

• MESTSKY USTAV OCHRANY PAMIATOK (Slovakia)

• UNIVERZITA KOMENSKEHO V BRATISLAVE (Slovakia)

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• FUNDACION DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA PARA LA PROMOCION

• ESTRATEGICA EL DESARROLLO Y LA INNOVACION URBANA (Spain)

• COMUNE DI CAMERINO (Italy)

• FREIE UND HANSESTADT HAMBURG (Germany)

Promotion

Horizon 2020 - The European Union Framework Programme (Grant Agreement No. 820999)

Call: LC-CLA-04-2018 - Resilience and sustainable reconstruction of historic areas to cope with climate change and hazard events