ABSTRACT
The evidence of the human creation of environment through the millennia is preserved in what today is recognized as a cultural heritage asset, movable or immovable one. In invisible way it also contains a variety of intangible messages which are difficult to read and understand but they should be preserved for the next generations. Each asset is exposed to long-term and sudden environmental and man-made harmful impacts, which damage or erode asset’s materials and components and lead to loosing of the incorporated intangible messages. The lack of knowledge and improper decisions of site managers significantly increase exposure of assets to all kinds of risks. Therefore, they are obligated to increase assets’ resilience. Resilient asset is capable to respond on harmful impacts with less damage and has better recovery potential after environmental or man-made disastrous event. In present paper is explained the authors’ view on the heritage resilience concept based on the protocols of data collection and significances of cultural heritage assets. The outline of cultural heritage resilience model is briefly presented and commented regarding its further development and its importance for development of related standards and protocols. The background of the chapter is authors’ own research and experiences study of relevant literature.
