Environmental Risk Assessment as an Approach of Resilience to Climate Change in Architectural Built Cultural Heritage

Abstract

Built heritage symbolizes our culture, heritage, and identity, acting as testament defining who we are and declaring our past stories. Yet, the risk inherent by the global climate change exposes our heritage properties to increasing disaster risks, consequently impacting the country’s tourism, economic state and social resilience. In addition to the growing recognition that an environmental risk management strategy is required to determine the damage of any potential danger on heritage buildings, the precautions required for risk mitigation and assessing the vulnerability of those buildings. Thus, prioritizing and defining any destructive factors. The purpose of this research is to investigate the appropriation of environmental risk assessment (ERA) toward providing guidance for eventual future efforts to promote resilience to climate change in heritage buildings. A comprehensive literature review is conducted to achieve this aim. It will investigate the built cultural heritage perception, classifications, characteristics and values in addition to understanding the risks imposed by climate change on built heritage and the potential impacts on the different built heritage aspects. As well as examining the current risk assessment, mitigation and adaptation strategies and approaches for effective implementation. The research findings will provide a climatic disaster’s preparedness at heritage properties through a detailed matrix that was developed to combine the risk assessment techniques and mapping the climate change-related threats. Hence, acting as an assessment quantitative tool to ensure effective responses at all levels. In addition to investigating the resilience measure that would be taken by then based on the effective analysis.