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This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings. In a first approach, the total number of potential parameters is effectively reduced and the selected criteria are divided into two different groups: the monument’s location in relation to a waterway, and the behaviour of its construction material in contact with water. Above all, the book discusses the importance of architectural heritage and argues for the need to safeguard it from extreme climatic phenomena such as floods. As such, the book vividly reminds the scientific community that the intensification of the global warming and climate change will worsen throughout the 21st century, and that it is therefore necessary to adopt preventive measures to minimize, mitigate and control these adverse effects if we hope to avoid catastrophic consequences. At the same time, the book takes into account a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines, such as civil engineering and architecture, offering a synthesis of the current state of knowledge to benefit and guide experts and practitioners in related fields.

Engineering. --- Building Materials. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. --- Building construction. --- Ingénierie --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Materials Science --- Hygrothermoelasticity. --- Buildings --- Environmental engineering. --- Environmental engineering (Buildings) --- Hygrothermal effects --- Environmental management. --- Climate change. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Building materials. --- Environmental engineering --- Architecture --- Sanitary engineering --- Thermoelasticity --- Human factors --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Architectural materials --- Building --- Building supplies --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Environmental aspects --- Global environmental change