Listening to the STORM: Preliminary survey to identify needs in risk management policies for cultural heritage endangered by natural hazards
This paper shows the results of a preliminary survey regarding existing cultural heritage disaster risk management policies in five countries (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and United Kingdom), in the scope of H2020 STORM project, which aims to develop tools, methodologies and recommendations to support future legislations and procedures on prevention, mitigation, and response to the impacts of climate change and natural hazards on sites, structures and artefacts.
The survey was conducted by DGPC with the contributions of all the STORM partners. The main goal was to identify governmental risk management programmes and strategies, as well as emergency plans/preparedness systems and procedures in practice, at the sites level. This work made possible a preliminary identification of gaps and needs in different key areas that should be the next urgent priorities to address.