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Preservation Strategies for Southern Morocco’s At-Risk Built Heritage

open access: yesBuildings, 2018
Morocco has a vernacular architectural heritage of recognized value, which constitutes an indissoluble part of its cultural legacy. In the south of the country, specifically in the High Atlas mountain range and the pre-Saharan oases, we mainly find earth
Pablo Rodríguez-Navarro   +1 more
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SLAM-based survey supporting vulnerability assessments of built heritage at risk [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
The documentation of historical churches for structural and seismic vulnerability assessment requires survey techniques that balance metric reliability and operational efficiency.
M. Colapietro, V. Bonora, B. Pintucchi
doaj   +1 more source

Above the Ravines: Flood Vulnerability Assessment of Earthen Architectural Heritage in Quito (Ecuador)

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
Floods represent one of the most threatening risks for earthen architectural heritage. Developing risk assessment tools is considered crucial to mitigate the risk and to protect heritage buildings.
Francesca Trizio   +4 more
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The Italian experience and its contribution to the Union Civil Protection Mechanism in reinforcing cultural heritage protection through the Proculther project

open access: yesLibellarium: Journal for the Research of Writing, Books, and Cultural Heritage Institutions, 2022
Purpose. The aim of the article is to explain how the Italian response capacities for the safeguarding of cultural heritage at risk of disaster has been enhanced over the past twenty-five years and how it has contributed to raising the awareness of this
Veronica Piacentini
doaj   +1 more source

Jewish heritage tourism between memories and strategies. Different approaches from Lviv, Ukraine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article aims at contributing to the discussion on the creation and management of heritage. It offers insights on the risk of cultural commodification that may occur when the discourse held by heritage selectors displays in a former multi-ethnic ...
Corsale Andrea, Vuytsyk Olha
core   +1 more source

Probabilistic assessment of the impact of material properties on the risk of frost damage in masonry constructions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Historically valuable buildings often contain a huge energy saving potential due to their current lacking thermal performance of the building envelope. Next to this, unfortunately insulation measures, which normally occur at the inside, induce a decrease
Calle, Klaas, Van Den Bossche, Nathan
core   +2 more sources

Do political instability, terrorism, and corruption have deterring effects on tourism development even in the presence of UNESCO heritage? A cross-country panel estimate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article evaluates the effects of political instability, terrorism, and corruption on tourism development, particularly UNESCO-listed heritage destinations.
Saha, Shrabani, Yap, Ghialy
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POTENTIAL OF HBIM TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF VISITOR FLOW MANAGEMENT IN HERITAGE SITES. TOWARDS SMART HERITAGE MANAGEMENT [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020
Providing public access to heritage promotes a social interest in its conservation but, at the same time, it poses a risk to the conservation of resources.
E. Salvador-García   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Problems of preservation of architectural heritage of the historical center of Kiev in conditions of increasing ecological and technogenic risk

open access: yesГеофизический журнал, 2011
The substantial part of the historical centre of Kiev with the architectural heritage is located in the zones of a geological risk, i.e. zones of the development of the dangerous natural and tech-nogenic processes.
V. I. Starostenko   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping cultural heritage sites at risk: A support tool for heritage sites management

open access: yesJournal of Urban Management
Under the threat of climate change, the world has become increasingly unsafe, with extreme weather events causing devastation and high economic costs. These impacts are heterogeneous because of the interaction between different regional climate changes ...
Maria Giovanna Brandano   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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