Investigating the Integration of Cultural Heritage Disaster Risk Management into Urban Planning Tools. The Ravenna Case Study

Angela Rosa, Angela Santangelo and Simona Tondelli
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Angela Rosa: Department of Architecture, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Angela Santangelo: Department of Architecture, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy
Simona Tondelli: Department of Architecture, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-24

Abstract: As increasingly recognized by scholars, climate change is posing new challenges in the field of disaster risk management and urban planning. Even though cultural heritage has passed through decades and centuries, it has never experienced such unexpected and variable events as those forecasted by climate change for the foreseeable future, making it a sensitive element of the living environment. By selecting the city of Ravenna and the cultural heritage site of the Santa Croce Church and archaeological area as a case study, the paper aims at providing an insight into the role that urban planning tools have when it comes to improving the resilience of historical areas, coping with climate change through improvements to the disaster risk management of cultural heritage. Starting from a deep analysis of the existing spatial and urban planning tools that operate at different scales on the Ravenna territory, the adaptive capacity of the historical area toward the identified risks was assessed. The results may lead, on the one hand, to improving the integration of cultural heritage risk management into urban planning tools; on the other hand, they contribute to improving the scope and the governance of the heritage management plans in order to cope with climate change risks and their effects.

Keywords: resilience; adaptive capacity; cultural heritage; risk management; climate change; urban planning; planning tool; Ravenna (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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