Risk and resilience management in cultural heritage

Objectives. To verify the organisational strategies for the risk and resilience management after catastrophic events. The question is: which strategical approaches can be applied to cultural heritage for disasters risk management and for the resilience of damaged or destroyed heritage ? Methodology. Analysis of main existing approaches and verification of their adequacy to the specific field that from the recovering of the previous situation to catastrophic events like earthquakes, tsunamis or floods, today it is extending to historical buildings, monuments and museums destruction as the consequence of iconoclastic positions and movements. Findings. The paper presents and discusses two strategic organisational approaches, of Clustering and Networking, addressed to face catastrophic events in the field of cultural heritage relating the strategy to the evolution grade of institutions dedicated to cultural heritage. Research limits. The fast evolution of the context and of the cases number in which verifying the proposed approaches. Practical implications. Adjustment of intervention strategies to the dimensions of the phenomenon and to the evolution of institutions operating in the field of cultural heritage in case of catastrophes intentionally produced by mankind. Originality of the study. As there still are no models of risk and resilience management in cultural heritage with regard to disasters intentionally produced by mankind, the paper provides a theoretical frame for the creation and verification of possible models applicable to cultural heritage.