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The ‘Risk Preparedness Strategy’ (RPS) for Baalbek is a tool prepared to help the site managers prevent or reduce the negative impacts of threats on the significance/integrity of the property and on human life. It deals with major threats, like earthquakes, but also with factors increasing the vulnerability to hazards. Minor factors, which can become preponderant with time because of their cumulative effects, are also considered: lack of maintenance, inadequate management, progressive erosion and deterioration.