SHELTER

SHELTER aims at developing a data-driven framework that will bring together the scientific community and heritage managers with the objective of enhancing resilience, reducing vulnerability, and promoting better and safer reconstruction in historic areas.

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Over the last decades, cultural heritage has been impacted by an increasing number of climate-related hazards, posing new challenges to conservators and heritage managers. However, the concept of heritage has failed to be effectively incorporated into contemporary disaster risk management strategies. As a result, comprehensive disaster risk management plans need to be drawn up. These plans are to be based on the specific characteristics of cultural heritage and the nature of the hazards within a regional context. They should take into account the diverse heritage typologies as well as the specific socio-economic conditions.

The SHELTER project aims at providing useful methodologies to enhance resilience and secure the sustainable reconstruction of historic urban areas. This requires a better understanding of the exposure and the vulnerability of the historical regions to potential hazards, and the provision of innovative governance and community-based models. Due to the complexity and diversity of data sources, SHELTER will be implementing a multiscale and multisource data-driven platform. It will provide the necessary information for planning bespoke adaptive governance mechanisms. All developments of the project will be validated in five open-labs across Europe, representative of the main climatic and environmental challenges in Europe and different heritage typologies. Specific goals of the project are:

  1. To operationalize existing heterogeneous data and knowledge by cost-effective acquisition, processing, management and integration of information;
  2. To develop a knowledge generation methodology to build multidimensional, cross-scale and systemic resilience assessment and monitoring;
  3. To analyse, test and pilot novel cost-effective solutions and tools regarding their capacity to enhance resilience and reduce vulnerability to specific risks;
  4. To develop collaborative, iterative urban planning for short- and long-term adaptation strategies.

The main contribution of LEMA consists of exploring, developing, and testing adaptive governance within disaster risk management and cultural heritage.  Furthermore, LEMA is charged with the production of a community-based engagement rulebook that facilitates the involvement of citizens and local stakeholders in the design and implementation of Disaster Risk Management strategies, which can be found on the SHELTER Website.

Supervisor: Prof. Jacques Teller

Researcher: Louis Durrant

Funding: The total budget of the project is € 5.999.448 (LEMA € 246.311). The project is funded by a H2020 RIA Research Grant (call H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020).

Project start date: June 2019

Duration of the project: 48 months

Official website: https://shelter-project.com/

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