The resilience to flooding of historical archives

When the historical archives are concerned, usually closed and controlled environment are considered, protected from the threats from ambient conditions, fires and different kind of pest. What is becoming evident by the historical events is that archives are vulnerable to the acute events, as flooding, that could have short term (document destruction) and long term (e.g. moulds) effects. A fuzzy based methodology is here proposed as a first attempt to support the decision making in terms of resilience to flooding and climate change based on multiple parameters: value at risk, recovery capabilities and probability of occurrence. The case study shows the effectiveness in defining the control measures.