Modelling flood impacts, resilience and risk in art cities

Natural hazards might cause irreversible impacts to cultural heritage that for its unicity has an intangible value. The difficulties in describing exposure and vulnerability of this peculiar asset make risk and resilience assessment rarely applied. This work describes a novel flood resilience modelling framework encompassing inundation modelling, exposure analysis, vulnerability, and recovery dynamics. The method is applied to cultural heritage in Florence (Italy) a UNESCO world heritage site which hosts 10 million visitorsper year. Results are obtained in terms of indirect losses per flood scenario, recovery times and risk.