Conoscenza, cura, condivisione. Il ruolo del patrimonio nei processi partecipativi per la prevenzione e gestione dei rischi | Knowledge, Care, Sharing. The Role of Heritage in Participatory Processes for Risk Prevention and Management

Heritage has long been regarded as vulnerable, and subject to a combination of both natural and anthropogenic risks, which have the capacity to compromise its integrity (Stanton-Geddes, Soz, 2017). Despite the persistence of this condition, it should be noted that since the early 2000s cultural heritage has progressively been acknowledged as an active resource in international frameworks and documents addressing Disaster Risk Reduction policies. In this context, agencies and organisations such as UNESCO, ICCROM and ICOMOS have set a paradigm shift, defining heritage as playing a key role in strategies for reducing and mitigating disasters (UNESCO, 2010; Ravankhah, 2017). The centrality of this issue is attributable not only to the rise in both the frequency and severity of catastrophic events, which have accelerated in recent times, but also to the recognition of heritage in the formulation of risk reduction policies and tools (ICOMOS, 2019).