Risk Management Planning of Cultural Heritage Sites: al-Hallabat Complex as a Site in Urban Transitional State
摘要
Cultural heritage sites are witnessing threats and natural disasters, and all of that have negative impact on the sites value. As the need for conservation is not only based on restoration repairing the effect of the threats but it must have a proactive measure that could prevent or eliminate any threat factor opposed on the site, hence comes the necessity of risk management plan of cultural heritage sites as fundamental part of any management plan of cultural heritage sites. The author has chosen the site of al-Hallabat Complex because it represents one of the main significant situations of cultural heritage sites as a site in transition from a rural to an urban context. Also, since the site has its own urban context transition state, it has been selected as case study for the formulation of a risk management plan. This paper shows how the risk management planning of the site is a process that should not be based only on the protection and conservation of the monument in isolated manner, but it should be planned as a more integrated approach that takes into consideration the context of the site as a part of its value.