Pre-disaster recovery roadmap. How to enable local authorities to formulate effective pre-planned strategies for disaster risk reduction

Climate change has a great impact on cultural heritage, posing new challenges to planners and heritage managers. Spatial planning, disaster risk management and climate change adaptation share the common goal of increasing resilience. Nevertheless, most of the policies are approached singularly, and a full integration of disaster risk management and climate change adaptation into spatial planning tools is still missing. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 has a key-role in reducing disaster risk, enhancing disaster preparedness and making communities resilient. Although in the last decade different organisations have developed guidelines to simplify its application, the Sendai Framework has not been largely applied by governmental authorities. Starting from the analysis of the existing guidelines, a new methodology has been proposed, to develop a more operative tool: the Pre-Disaster Recovery Roadmap. It has an operational approach, which includes step-by-step instructions, in the form of five phases, provided with a flowchart to make the process understandable and easy to be applied. This research has been developed as part of the H2020 SHELTER project, aimed to develop a data-driven and community-based resilience improvement of historic areas.