Built Heritage and Development: Heritage Impact Assessment of Change in Asia [PDF]
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]
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]
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
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Published by Elsevier Science, Amsterdam [u.a.]
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Extreme rainfall risk and climate change impact assessment for Edinburgh World Heritage sites
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
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The influence of framing on the legitimacy of impact assessment: examining the heritage impact assessments conducted for the Liverpool Waters project [PDF]
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
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A Contribution to the Built Heritage Environmental Impact Assessment [PDF]
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
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Despite various opportunities, urban development projects have been causing significant challenges to the preservation and conservation of historic cultural heritage.
Baharak Ashrafi+2 more
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Beyond inundation: a comprehensive assessment of sea level rise impact on coastal cultural heritage in China [PDF]
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
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Improving heritage impact assessment: an analytical critique of the ICOMOS guidelines [PDF]
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
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