Build on natural tendencies to strengthen resilience of cultural and environmental heritage

“Global Risks Report 2013” examines the increasingly important issue of building national resilience to global risks: one of the most useful characteristics of resilience is its ability to help frame the issues under consideration within a systemic approach, which is particularly relevant in specific context of historic and monumental areas, landscape and environment. Resilience, in this perspective, is understood not as a fixed asset, but as a continually changing process. So “evolutionary resilience” changes whole idea of equilibrium and advocates that nature of systems may change over time with or without an external disturbance. Evolutionary resilience offers a useful framework which allows us to think in new ways about planning of interventions. Systemic approach, through which operate in variability, multidimensional and multiform state to increase resiliency, is particularly relevant in the actions aimed at cultural and landscape heritage, characterized by “diversity” as a condition in which the process of adapting constantly changing in an evolutionary approach that results in a modification of the strategies and techniques (flexibility/diversity, redundancy /modularity, response/recovery, reliability/adaptive governance). Aim is to enable decision-makers to track progress in building resilience and possibly identify where further investments are needed