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Built Heritage and Development: Heritage Impact Assessment of Change in Asia [PDF]

open access: diamondBuilt Heritage, 2017
Built heritage faces increasing pressures and threats from development and change in the contemporary world, a situation that frequently results in compromise or loss of historic fabric and its associated values.
Ayesha Pamela Rogers
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Assessment of urbanization impact on cultural heritage based on a risk-based cumulative impact assessment method [PDF]

open access: goldHeritage Science, 2023
Urbanization is inevitable in both developing and developed countries. However, this growth and transformation of the urban area can pose a significant threat to urban cultural heritage, which is a sensitive component of the urban environment.
Li Fu   +4 more
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A Conceptual Framework for Heritage Impact Assessment: A Review and Perspective [PDF]

open access: goldSustainability, 2021
Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) has recently emerged as a conflict-solving tool to improve World Heritage (WH) conservation in line with sustainable development policies. The increasing number of requested HIAs for affected WH properties over the last years reveals that more attention is being paid to HIA as a practical tool to adequately support the ...
Baharak Ashrafi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

Extreme rainfall risk and climate change impact assessment for Edinburgh World Heritage sites

open access: goldWeather and Climate Extremes, 2022
Human-induced climate change and the resulting increase in severity and frequency of extreme weather events is a significant threat to cultural heritage. Those responsible for the care, maintenance and conservation of cultural heritage urgently need user-
Shane O'Neill   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

The influence of framing on the legitimacy of impact assessment: examining the heritage impact assessments conducted for the Liverpool Waters project [PDF]

open access: hybridImpact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 2020
The expertise of impact assessment practitioners and the legitimacy of their reports are increasingly being questioned. We analyze the subjectivity of impact assessment by exploring how the framing undertaken within Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) influences decision making about spatial development projects.
Patrick R. Patiwael   +2 more
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

A Contribution to the Built Heritage Environmental Impact Assessment [PDF]

open access: diamondISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
The understanding and assessment of environmental impact on heritage assets is of the highest importance for heritage preservation through well-organized maintenance based on proper decision-making.
R. Žarnić, V. Rajčić, N. Skordaki
doaj   +7 more sources

Heritage Impact Assessment Index Within Urban Development Context: The Case of Masjed-e Jame of Isfahan in Iran

open access: goldHeritage
Despite various opportunities, urban development projects have been causing significant challenges to the preservation and conservation of historic cultural heritage.
Baharak Ashrafi   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Beyond inundation: a comprehensive assessment of sea level rise impact on coastal cultural heritage in China [PDF]

open access: greenHeritage Science
The rise in sea levels, driven by global climate change, poses a significant threat to cultural heritage in coastal regions. Traditional risk assessment methods, focusing on direct inundation, often fail to consider the crucial impact of socio-economic ...
Zihua Chen   +4 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Improving heritage impact assessment: an analytical critique of the ICOMOS guidelines [PDF]

open access: bronzeInternational Journal of Heritage Studies, 2018
In 2011, ICOMOS published its Guidance on Heritage Impact Assessment for Cultural World Heritage Properties. By 2016, over 100 Heritage Impact Assessments (HIAs) had been requested by UNESCO. This paper provides an analytical critique of the HIA Guidelines focusing on their implicit assumptions.
Patrick R. Patiwael   +2 more
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

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