The past few decades have seen an increasing awareness of the potential socio-economical and environmental impact of investment in Cultural Heritage (CH). Preserving CH is not only an obligation to sustain and transmit it to the future generation but is also a driver of sustainable growth. Here, recently concluded projects are taken in consideration for a reflective thinking on preventive conservation, as the only viable strategy towards a sustainable and cost-effective management of CH, to face unprecedented challenges posed by increasing natural and man-made threats. Here, the main open issues for a widespread implementation of preventive conservation are identified, moreover, standardised, integrated good practices, validated over significant case studies, are presented within a multi-level replicable framework.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was financed by ERDF funds through the V Interreg Sudoe program within the frame-work of the project “HeritageCare - Monitoring and preventive conservation of historic and culturalheritage” (Ref. SOE1/P5/P0258). The Heritage Within research project was co-funded by theCreative Europe Programme of the European Union, under the Cross-sectorial subprogramme,Bridging culture and audiovisual content through digital action (Project 614719-CREA-1-2019-1-PT-CROSS-SECT-INNOVLAB). Moreover, this work was partly financed by FCT/MCTESthrough national funds (PIDDAC) under the R&D Unit Institute for Sustainability and Innovationin Structural Engineering (ISISE), under reference UIDB/04029/2020
