Risk management and built heritage: Experiences, reflections and perspectives

In recent years the importance of risk assessment within the practice of condition surveys in the field of built heritage conservation has been gaining ground, thus acknowledging the positive results of a risk management approach, consolidated as a practice, in the field of museums and their collections. This study provides a review of recent experience, such as recommendations and guidelines, best practices and projects, that address risk management methodology for the preventive and planned conservation of built heritage, both in the Italian and European context. Its purpose is to understand the different approaches and to analyse the methods and models defined by these projects, in order to form an operational reference framework which, in its turn, will be able to contribute to the development of a holistic risk management approach to built heritage.