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Item Prioritization Methodology for Resilience Enhancement of Historic Areas Facing Climate Change-Related Hazards(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022) Briz, Estibaliz; Garmendia, Leire; Quesada-Ganuza, Laura; Villaverde, Ane; Alvarez, Irantzu; Egusquiza, Aitziber; LABORATORIO DE TRANSFORMACIÓN URBANAIt is demonstrated that climate change is leading to intense and frequent extreme events. As a consequence, the impact on cultural heritage has increased, accelerating its deterioration. Climate-related hazards that can affect historic areas are dependent on both the nature of the risk and the specific characteristics of the heritage that is under threat, as well as the inherent vulnerability of the geographical environment and historic area. Conservation interventions at historic sites are generally focused on improving their resilience and minimizing any long-term deterioration of materials and works of art. However, conservation interventions are rarely focused on responding to the threat of sudden damage during emergency management phases. In these scenarios, a quick response is crucial when selecting the most appropriate intervention from the different solutions and the very many factors that they may take into account. The aim of this research is to develop a multi-criteria prioritization methodology that supports the intervention decision. The prioritization methodology entailed the consideration of specific scenarios and hazard types and their characteristics and the application of MIVES methodology together with the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Technical, socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental aspects were then weighted to produce a prioritization index for decision-making in response to each scenario.Item Vulnerability Assessment of Historic Areas to Heat Waves. The Case Study of Bilbao(Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2024) Quesada-Ganuza, Laura; Garmendia, Leire; Villaverde, Ane; Egiluz, Ziortza; Roji, Eduardo; Piñero, Ignacio; E&I SEGURAS Y RESILIENTESThe impacts of climate change, such as extreme events and progres-sive global warming, threaten the conservation and habitability of urban cultural heritage. Understanding climate risks to heritage must be part of planning and policy decision-making processes to increase the resilience and sustainability of both social and built environmental systems.. However, despite a large body of literature on climate-related hazards, there is a notable knowledge gap regarding a holistic conceptualization of hazards in historic urban areas, especially in the case of heat waves and urban heat island phenomena. The main goal of this study was to analyze and represent the interaction between historic built environment and heat waves via Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, considering the vulnerability of historic areas both as urban systems and as heritage areas. To frame a holistic approach, socio-economic, cul-tural, governance (services and resources) and physical (gathering tangible characteristics of all infrastructures, elements and buildings) aspects of the system are taken into ac-count. To this end, a multicriteria risk assessment methodology is developed. Key performance indicators, criteria and requirements addressing relevant vulnerable elements of historic urban areas are identified for the development of the methodology. Moreover, as the foundation for the risk assessment, a categorization based on vulnerability to heat waves is proposed for both buildings and urban spaces. Here, this methodology’s results and its application on a GIS-based model in the historic area of Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain) are presented. This work aims to be replicable and to serve as a reference for future holistic assessments of heatwaves risks in historic urban areas worldwide.