SHELTER considers all the steps of disaster management: prevention, preparedness, response and recovery, through an iterative approach which ensures a progressive increase in resilience. The project builds upon heritage vulnerability assessment, exposure and hazards characteristics and on a data management strategy able to bring together different sources of information. Knowledge generated will serve for evidence decision-making in the prevention phase and establishment of contingency plans in the preparedness phase. A system thinking perspective allows understanding how different components within a historic area interact, which are the involved variables, their dependencies and the dynamic forces that affect their sensitiveness or adaptive capacity. Information gathered and analysed will serve as a basis for the recovery phase where, lesson learned, traditional knowledge and circular economy solutions will ensure sustainable reconstruction and resilience improvement of historic areas.

Sustainable Development Goals

Masaryk University is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to improve the conditions and quality of life on our planet by 2030.