Building rehabilitation, sustainable development, and rural settlements: a contribution to the state of the art

Abstract The quality of life in rural housing settlements is at the heart territorial cohesion concerns across Europe and United Nations’ sustainable development goals. However, gap between urban developments remains substantial, stressing need to adopt integrated approaches for territories. These should include heritage preservation strategies as a priority. Vernacular constructions integrate built comprise response communities territories, pertinence its rehabilitation. aim this paper raise awareness issue through scoping review since it lacks general frameworks that may contribute towards perceiving territories their catalysts development. As main goal, we provide insights on importance global European contexts, well role building rehabilitation three dimensions—environmental, social, economic. Additionally, impact sustainability stressed, vernacular construction highlighted component heritage.