Heritage at Risk: Improving Resilience and Awareness towards Preservation, Risk Mitigation and Governance Strategies

It is assumed that the impact of natural and man-made hazards on society in terms of damage is constantly increasing. In order to reduce the levels of potential disaster and to assess which policies and measures can generate positive impacts, it is necessary to make a careful comparison of experiences at an international scale in risk mitigation and management.

The international scenario of calamitous events that still characterise all areas of the globe is deepened together with the experiences of the earthquakes and floods that have affected the Pianura Padana area and the central regions of Italy in the last ten years, included in the training project Academy "After the Damages". Following the results published in the first volume Built Heritage in Post-Disaster Scenarios, Heritage at Risk aims to continue the debate on recent innovations and advances in risk management to contribute to the definition of strategies and the implementation of increasingly effective tools in terms of risk mitigation.

The volume provides insights into the dynamics and negative effects of natural and man-made hazards (i.e., earthquakes, fires, floods, droughts, and volcanic eruptions), including more updated approaches to deal with post-disaster phases. The book also offers tools to deal with possible international crisis scenarios and mitigate the social impact of vulnerabilities through risk reduction.

Heritage at Risk is aimed at public administration managers, government agency representatives, international organizations, researchers, and professionals in architecture, engineering, and earth science.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Marcello Balzani, Architect, PhD in "Representation and Survey", Full Professor in the Scientific Sector CEAR-10/A at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara. Scientific Responsible of the DIAPReM Centre and of the industrial research laboratory TekneHub, Technopole of the University of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna High Technology Network.President of Clust-ER Building and Construction. He is Director Scientific Manager of the International Academy "After the Damages", and is author of more than two hundred publications on the themes of Drawing and Architectural and Urban Surveying, Heritage Documentation, Survey and Representation, HBIM and Visualisation.

Federica Maietti, Architect, PhD, Associate Professor in the Scientific Sector CEAR-10/A at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara. Board member of the DIAPReM Centre, since 2005 she has carried out research activities in the fields of heritage documentation, survey and diagnostic investigations, in different national and international contexts, including Pompeii, Malta, Brazil, India, and Mexico. Scientific Manager of the International Academy "After the Damages", she is involved in several research activities and she is the author of more than two hundred publications in the fields of Heritage Documentation, and Survey and Representation.

Fabiana Raco, Architect, PhD, RTDa Researcher in the Scientific Sector CEAR-10/A at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara. Member of the DIAPReM Centre, coordinator of industrial research laboratory TekneHub, Technopole of the University of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna High Technology Network. Scientific Manager of the International Academy "After the Damages", she is involved in several research activities and she is the author of more than eighty publications in the fields of Drawing and Architectural and Urban Surveying, Heritage Documentation, Survey and Representation, HBIM and Visualisation.