Methodologies and Strategies for Cultural Heritage Protection and Conservation Against Climate Changes, Natural and Anthropic Risks

This open access book offers an overview on the intermediate results obtained in the context of the Italian National Research Programme "Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society" by the Working Group "Spoke 7", which focuses its research on the development and improvement of strategies and methodologies to protect the cultural heritage against the effects of climate change and of natural and anthropic risks. Topics covered in this book include chapters on digital twins and documentation for cultural heritage as well as on monitoring, assessment, and preventive conservation of heritage. The book also examines restoration and sustainable strategies for heritage preservation and offers advice on green materials and methodologies for conservation. The impact of climate change on cultural heritage accelerates the effects of natural hazards as well as those caused by human actions: these phenomena raise new research questions and open new challenges for modern societies, thus requiring a broad multidisciplinary approach towards problem solving. Relevant case studies will be identified with a multi-scale approach to encompass different scenarios and to address both general and specific issues to finally deliver innovative solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change, natural and anthropic risks on cultural heritage.