Cultural heritage

The present study aims to improve the representation of floodhazard inside CH buildings, whose architectural complexity,such as intricate planimetric & altimetric layouts, often limits the reliability of micro-scale models for exposure and riskassessment.

This research combines expert elicitation on heritage attribute vulnerability with long-term and extreme climate change projections to estimate future climate change risks for 148 heritage sites and their buffer zones in China

This study examines emergency evacuation dynamics in Gulangyu, China, a UNESCO World Heritage site, using agent-based modelling combined with field experiments and behavioural data.

The UNESCO Regional Office for the Pacific States has advanced efforts to integrate intangible cultural heritage into education systems across the Pacific, with a particular focus on disaster risk reduction and resilience-building.

As climate change intensifies flooding, Pennsylvania’s historic sites built along waterways are increasingly vulnerable, making adaptation a “critical, absolute need” to avoid permanent loss.

This sixth issue of the Technical Bulletin opens with a foreword from the European External Action Service - EEAS, which reaffirms that the protection of cultural heritage transcends national and European borders, particularly in times of conflict.

Preserving Legacies, a National Geographic Society project dedicated to safeguarding global natural and cultural heritage sites from climate change impacts, was awarded the Local Adaptation Champion Award for Citizen Science at COP30.

At the edge of Salem’s harbor, caretakers face a race against rising seas and intensifying storms to protect a landmark bound up in America’s literary and colonial past.