HYPERION - A Decision Support System for Improved Resilience and Sustainable Reconstruction of historic areas

We introduce a research framework for downscaling the predicted/simulated climate and atmospheric conditions as well as associated risk maps down to the 1x1 km (historic area) scale, merging them with geohazard maps and integrating them with site and structure specific multi-hazard vulnerability functions to determine the time-varying risk for historical cities. Applying atmospheric modelling for specific Climate Change (CC) scenarios at such refined spatial and time scales allows for an accurate quantitative impact assessment of the estimated micro-climatic and atmospheric stressors. The ambition of this work, performed under the framework of the HYPERION EU-funded project, is to produce a comprehensive tool to assess the threats of CC in tandem with other natural hazards, visualize the built heritage and cultural landscape under future climate scenarios, model the effects of different adaptation strategies, and ultimately prioritize any rehabilitation actions to best allocate funds in both pre- and post-event environments.