Abstract
Risks related to climate change and natural hazards increasingly affect urban areas such as historic towns, old urban quarters, villages, and hamlets. These, as well as historic landscapes, make up a significant part of an urban area’s identity and cannot just be rebuilt or significantly changed without taking into account the historic value, cultural background, and prescribed regulations. Systematic resilience building for historic areas is becoming essential, and research supporting it will be in the spotlight. However, questions still exist concerning how to best transfer research results into practice at the community level. Standardization of resilience-enhancing methods and tools deriving from research projects is one option, chosen, e.g., for the EU-Horizon 2020 project ARCH. Within the project, a disaster risk management (DRM) framework has been composed and then transferred into a standard, supported by a co-creation approach involving relevant stakeholders. This article outlines the project’s different standardization steps and its impact on the development of the ARCH DRM Framework. It highlights the systematic inclusion of project-external stakeholders who actively contribute to the validation and enhancement of the ARCH DRM framework to guarantee maximum applicability in historic areas, supporting them in their fight against the impacts of climate change and natural hazards.
Highlights
Significant parts of Europe consist of historic towns and city centers as well as cultural landscapes: natural heritage sites cover roughly 18% of the European land territory [1], and, on average, 22% of the European housing stock was constructed before 1946 [2]
There is a need for frameworks, methods, and tools that provide better information and decision support for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction measures taken by heritage managers, urban planners, policymakers, and the general public
All of this being done through the involvement of relevant stakeholders makes the integration of standardization in research projects highly beneficial—for the project and affected communities alike
Summary
Significant parts of Europe consist of historic towns and city centers as well as cultural landscapes: natural heritage sites cover roughly 18% of the European land territory [1], and, on average, 22% of the European housing stock was constructed before 1946 [2]. There is a need for frameworks, methods, and tools that provide better information and decision support for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction measures taken by heritage managers, urban planners, policymakers, and the general public. These frameworks need to take into account the unique physical, environmental, economic, social, cultural, and political aspects of historic areas, as well as the enabling conditions these areas provide for taking action. The role of heritage in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction within the wider urban context has to be emphasized
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