Integrated understanding of climate change and disaster risk for building resilience of cultural heritage sites

The aim of this paper is to analyze how the integrated understanding of climate change and disaster risk reduction policies can contribute to building climate resilience of cultural heritage sites by reviewing the key themes emerging from the literature. Heritage assets are vulnerable to climate change and disaster risks. However, existing literature has long been separating climate change from disaster risks.

The development of new tools using interdisciplinary methods and analysis in combination with a more varied engagement with local stakeholders proved its efficiency in assessing, restoring, and adapting to risks, although often on a limited scale. Such tools have the capacity to support new studies and the application of an integrated approach increasingly emphasized in projects, the literature, and in this article.