Fire Resilience for Heritage in a Changing Climate: Priorities for Site Managers
International bodies such as UNESCO warn that climate-driven factors including heatwaves, droughts and extended fire seasons are intensifying fires at...
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Why Cost–benefit Analysis matters for Historic Buildings
When deciding how to protect a historic building, it is not enough to ask “Is this measure technically effective?” The...
Heritage Sites Destroyed by Floods in Sumatra
Since late November 2025, extreme monsoon rains, intensified by deforestation resulting from logging and mining activities, have caused catastrophic floods...
Vineyards: The last Barrier against Fire
The preservation of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage is a well-known concern, as everything is directly recognised as Culture....
Protecting World Heritage Sites: Safety Challenges Under Climate Stress
Climate change poses an escalating threat to UNESCO World Heritage sites worldwide, with 80% of cultural heritage sites already experiencing...
The Library of Pannonhalma and the Bread Beetle: Conservation and Safety Challenges
The recent infestation of Stegobium paniceum, known as the "bread beetle," at the historic library of the Benedictine Abbey of...
Climate Conditions and Fire Risk in Historical towns
Historic buildings and the areas that house them are subject to a particular fire risk. In fact, many of the...
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...
Los Angeles Fires destroy Heritage and Historic Sites
On January 7, 2025, devastating fires started in Los Angeles county, with the Eaton Fire killing five people and causing...
Lessons from 2024 to 2025 Cultural Heritage Safety
In 2024, our posts focused on significant events and issues that arose online, without following a specific objective, but rather...
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...
ProCultHer Report: The European Methology to Cultural Heritage in Emergency
The European Union project called PROCULTHER (Protecting Cultural Heritage from the Consequences of Disasters) aims to protect cultural heritage from...
What is a CWA for Historic Areas Resilience?
On September 2022 the CWA 17727 "City Resilience Development - Guide to combine disaster risk management and climate change adaptation...
Fire Safety of Historical Wood: a Workshop in Rome
Historic timber structures are not only vulnerable to decay and collapse; their ageing and hidden pathologies also increase the risk...
Climate Change and Museums: a Book About Indoor Risks
updated February 2026 Climate change is reshaping the design, operation, and risk profile of museum buildings worldwide. Among the extensive...
STORM Academy 2019: Interdisciplinary Training on Cultural Heritage and Climate Risk Management
updated February 2026 As part of the EU-funded STORM project (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) the...
EFDRR 2018 Rome: Sendai Framework’s Cultural Heritage Legacy – 2026 Review
Updated February 2026 The European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR), Europe's regional arm of the UNDRR (formerly UNISDR), convened...
Is Europe Ready for Climate Impact on Cultural Heritage?
Updated February 2026 On 12 November 2018 the European Commission published the news item “Europe is ready for climate impacts:...
Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections: an ICCROM-UNESCO Handbook
The protection of cultural heritage aims first of all to prevent dangerous events from turning into unacceptable risks for collections and sites....
Fire Risks and New Threats from Climate Change to Libraries and Archives
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published in 2012 a document which is "an indicator-based assessment of past and projected...
STORM: an Horizon 2020 research project on heritage and environmental changes
STORM (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) is a research and development project initiated by the European...
