Index-based Multi-hazard Vulnerability Assessment Methodology for Churches
|| Background ||
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction recognizes the importance of cultural heritage for society and emphasize the need to assess their vulnerability from multiple hazards. Developing adequate multi-hazard vulnerability assessment processes is fundamental to this end. Still, given the large number of cultural heritage assets that can be exposed to different hazards in a region, the development of simplified multi-hazard approaches that can provide an initial risk screening of multiple assets to identify the need for more detailed analyses plays a central role for prioritization.
In this context, we propose an index-based multi-hazard vulnerability assessment methodology for churches, able to consider vulnerability from earthquakes, floods, and fire. The proposed multi-hazard index is obtained by combining a series of indicators, defined by performing a literature review.
The vulnerability indicators constitute the primary component of a five-step, multi-hazard vulnerability assessment methodology that can be flexi-bly applied as a prioritization method to rapidly screen multiple assets and identify the most vulnerable churches that may require a more detailed assessment.
The methodology is presented in:
M. Lazzati, S. De Angeli, G. Boni, S. Cattari, and X. Romão, DEFINITION OF MULTI-HAZARD VULNERABILITY INDICATORS FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE BUILDINGS, Proceedings of COMPDYN 2023, 9th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, M. Papadrakakis, M. Fragiadakis (eds.), Athens, Greece, 12-14 June 2023
|| Content ||
This repository contains the supplementary material of the paper DEFINITION OF MULTI-HAZARD VULNERABILITY INDICATORS FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE BUILDINGS by Lazzati et al. (2023) and contains the following files:
- Multi-Hazard Vulnerability Indicators For Churches - VERSION 1.0 (.pdf) | The file includes: (i) the list of the vulnerability indicators for earthquake, flood, and fire and their detailed description; (ii) the description of the vulnerability values (from o to 3) that each indicator can assume.
- Assessment Sheet (.ods) | Spreadsheet that can be used to perform the Index-based Multi-hazard Vulnerability Assessment for Churches.