Exploring the Significance of Heritage Preservation in Enhancing the Settlement System Resilience

Alena Harbiankova (), Elena Scherbina and Mikalai Budzevich
Additional contact information
Alena Harbiankova: Department of Rural Economics, Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland
Elena Scherbina: Urban Planning Department, National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (NRU MGSU), 129337 Moscow, Russia
Mikalai Budzevich: H.L. Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 21, 1-22

Abstract: The sustainable development of urban and rural settlements is considered one of the primary objectives of economic, social, and urban planning. Recent studies focused significant attention on the issue of the resilience of rural settlements due to the challenges and threats they face. One of the essential drivers affecting the resilience of rural settlements is cultural heritage preservation. The research methods were based on the complex systems approach. The study employed a multidimensional analysis method to evaluate the resilience of rural settlements based on five sub-systems: social, economic, environmental, physical, and managerial. The proposed method for evaluation of the settlement sustainability involves the application of a settlement development index and considers the preservation of cultural heritage objects. The data sources used contain open-access information and statistical data provided by municipal organizations, including GIS maps, statistical, and archival records. The study aim was to establish methodological frameworks for evaluating the influence of cultural heritage on the resilience of rural settlements as well as to obtain a quantitative assessment of the resilience of rural settlements within the Zavałočycy local council, located at Hlusk district, Mahiloŭ region, Belarus.

Keywords: Belarus; cultural heritage; heritage preservation; heritage significance; settlement resilience; resilience factors; sustainability; sustainable development; settlement system; rural settlement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/21/15251/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/21/15251/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:21:p:15251-:d:1266797

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().