Heritage and Fire

Dear Colleagues,

The open access-journal Fire welcomes submissions for a Topical Collection on the topic of fire risk management for cultural heritage and their investigation in the areas of conservation and restoration, conservation science, risk management and mitigation, and other related disciplines.

The focus of this Topical Collection is on the multiple dimensions involving the issue of fire risk in both architectural and movable heritage assets, namely, regarding innovative solutions for fire protection, repair and restoration principles, risk perception, and emergency planning. Outcomes of this collection are expected to contribute to strengthen the development of prevention, preparedness, and response actions to reduce the impact of fire events on cultural heritage.

Hence, the topics of potential manuscripts may include (but are not limited to):

• Optimized solutions for the fire protection of architectural or movable heritage assets;
• Fire risk from the user’s perspective (human behavior) and related systems;
• Risk reduction policies and strategies, including education and training programs;
• Disaster recovery: learning from the past and multi-disciplinary challenges;
• Case studies: examples, challenges, and good practices.

Dr. Tiago Miguel Ferreira
Collection Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the collection website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Fire is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.