Le patrimoine : un modèle de développement durable. Quelles performances énergétiques pour la patrimoine architectural et urbain en Europe et en Méditerranée ? = Heritage: a model for sustainable development. How to improve energy performance in European and Mediterranean architectural and urban heritage?
A recent concern on the time scale of architectural and urban heritage of historic city centres, energy efficiency of existing buildings takes on a major and universal dimension in response to climate change. thermal renovation works will have consequences and may jeopardise the authenticity, the material and immaterial values of this heritage as witness to our history… How to conciliate conservation of the heritage and reduction of energy consumption as part of a sustainable development framework? This publication presents the proceedings of the symposium organized in Paris in October 2010 on this topic by ICOMOS France and Euromed Heritage.