Preventive strategies for the conservation of heritage sites have gradually been preferred to
curative approaches because of their ability to maintain their significance. Furthermore, most …

A multi-criteria risk analysis to identify and to rank the most critical UNESCO World Heritage
Sites (WHSs) in Europe was implemented in the framework of the JPI-CH PROTHEGO …

Previous studies on risks of heritage sites have paid attention to natural disasters, pests and
diseases. Few has focused on systemic risks caused by human factors, such as theft, illegal …

To achieve sustainable heritage conservation, preventive conservation has gradually taken
precedence over curative conservation, because it can inhibit the damage caused by …

Ineffective management increasingly threatens cultural heritage conservation, resulting in
the mismanagement of tangible heritage assets and reducing the efficacy of conservation …

Context The late 20th and early twenty-first centuries saw massive urbanizations across the
world, leading considerate changes in land-cover/land-use, and posing significant threats to …

This article discusses the usability of the Art-Risk 3.0 software for research on the
conservation of heritage buildings. It is a new and free software based on fuzzy logic, which …

Historic Jeddah is located on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. Historic Jeddah was
designated as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2014. The new urban development for the …

The aim of this research was to first evaluate possible risks and vulnerabilities of historic
buildings using various methods and databases, and then to propose risk treatment and …

Purpose Aim of this paper is to evaluate the reliability of UNESCO Periodic Reports for the
assessment of hazards affecting the UNESCO world heritage sites (WHSs) and to rank the …