Around 45% of natural hazards reported worldwide are related to floods, and current indications show that exposure to floods and inherent losses will keep escalating. Historic centres are particularly vulnerable in this context due to the structural... Read More about Flood vulnerability and risk assessment of historic urban areas: Vulnerability evaluation, derivation of depth-damage curves and cost–benefit analysis of flood adaptation measures applied to the historic city centre of Tomar, Portugal.
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Implementing open-source information systems for assessing and managing the seismic vulnerability of historical constructions (2023)
Journal Article
The characterisation of the seismic vulnerability of historical constructions represents a complex problem in which the typological variability, the difficulty of performing reliable large-scale assessments and dealing with a large database all play... Read More about Implementing open-source information systems for assessing and managing the seismic vulnerability of historical constructions.
Fire risk assessment of historic urban aggregates: An application to the Yungay neighborhood in Santiago, Chile (2023)
Journal Article
Concern for the preservation of historic urban centers has become an issue of international relevance, not only because of their irreplaceable cultural value, but also because of their potential positive role for the sustainable development of countr... Read More about Fire risk assessment of historic urban aggregates: An application to the Yungay neighborhood in Santiago, Chile.