Overtourism and Safety of World Heritage Sites
The management of World Heritage Sites (WHS) and significant urban and cultural areas is an increasingly complex challenge. The integration...
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The Challenge of Choosing Fire-Extinguishing Agents in Cultural Heritage Protection
The protection of cultural heritage from fires is a complex challenge, where the speed of intervention to limit the spread...
Protection of Cultural Heritage in Times of War: Legal Assumptions
Situations of damage to heritage, in particular the destruction of monuments and emblematic sites, including those devastated by fires in...
An AI Model to Detect Damages on Historic Heritage Walls
Built heritage and traditional dwellings, is a testimony to the history and culture of an area. However, in areas such...
Funding the Retrofit of Historic Buildings with a Focus on Safety
Built heritage conservation is not only about the aesthetic and historical preservation of buildings, but increasingly includes the need to...
The New Emergency Plan of St Peter in Vatican
St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican is a building whose construction lasted several centuries and was completed around 1667. Famous...
First quarter of 2025: Already a Critical Year for World Cultural Heritage?
From the beginning of 2025 to the end of March, the world's cultural heritage has been affected by a series...
Emerging Technologies for Safety of Historic Buildings
Preserving historic buildings is essential to maintaining cultural identity and understanding the past. However, these structures, often built to older...
Historic Buildings and Bushfires Protection: a Verification Method
The devastation of historic buildings and assets that occurred in January 2025 in the Los Angeles area is one of...
Safety in Transport of Works of Arts
Transporting works of art can expose them to risk of damage, as happened to Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa....
Security and Safety Measures of Historic Places of Worship
The places of worship, a significant part of which are historically and artistically characterised, are exposed to risk of terrorist...
Wildland Fire Risk and Historical Towns
The wildfires that destroyed significant historical buildings of Los Angeles in early 2025 are just one example of fire risks...
Fire Behaviour of Ageing Wood
In recent years the scientific literature on wood combustion has seen a considerable number of new important studies. Among these,...
The Singularity of Italian Fire Safety Regulations for Historic Buildings
The historical heritage of buildings in Italy is extremely vast and, in addition to the most famous ones, includes the...
Water: the Most Common Enemy of Cultural Heritage
The damage that water can cause is among the most significant to which historical and cultural heritage is exposed. From...
How Artworks Emergency Storage Centres are Made
The conservation of works of art and artefacts of artistic interest is of fundamental importance to preserve cultural heritage for...
A Fire Safety Analysis of Historic Centres
The fires that devastated large areas of Los Angeles County in January 2025 have characteristics that are strongly linked to...
NATO and the new Threats to Cultural Heritage
The special report, entitled "History and Identity Under Attack: Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict", written by Julie Dzerowicz for the...
Monitoring Armed Conflicts Damages and Risks to Cultural Heritage
2024 has left a vast number of destructions of buildings and places of profound historical, artistic, religious and cultural value....
Japan Cultural Heritage Resilience against Natural and Man-made Disasters
Japan has developed extensive experience in disaster risk management (DRM) for cultural heritage (CH) through years of history and disasters,...
EU and Climate Change Risk to Cultural Heritage
An April 2024 report from the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) highlights the growing threat that climate change poses to...
Treating Debris of Historical Value after an Earthquake
Over the last thousand years, at least 2,500 earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 5 have hit Italy. At least...
