The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage
The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage

Author: John Watt

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-06-10

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0387848932

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This book reviews the sources of the air pollutants responsible for building damage and the mechanisms involved. Studies investigating the relationships between pollution concentration (dose) and the resulting damage (response) are described and the latest research findings for dose-response functions are presented. Trends in pollutant emissions, ambient concentrations and building damage over time are described and future predictions are presented. Methodologies for assessing the extent of the potential problem in a region – the stock at risk – are presented. Procedures for estimating the economic implications are described and the consequences are discussed in detail, because economic factors are important for reaching policy and management decisions at local, national and international scales. Damage to cultural heritage buildings is an important additional effect which needs to be considered as the standards are revised and the factors which will need to be brought into the assessment are presented.

Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage
Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage

Author: C. Saiz-Jimenez

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2004-08-15

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1482283999

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This collection includes thirty-six important recent works on the effects of pollutants on heritage sites, including thirty papers delivered to the Seville International Workshop on Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage in 2003, and six invited new additions. All papers have been written by a team of leading international contributors and are divided

Valuing Cultural Heritage
Valuing Cultural Heritage

Author: S. Navrud (ed.)

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781843765455

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What value do we place on our cultural heritage, and to what extent should we preserve historic and culturally important sites and artefacts from the ravages of weather, pollution, development and use by the general public? This innovative book attempts t

Sustained Care of the Cultural Heritage Against Pollution
Sustained Care of the Cultural Heritage Against Pollution

Author: José María Ballester

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9789287142337

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Deterioration of the cultural heritage as a result of pollution and other similar factor is a serious problem in a number of Eurpopean countries. This publication contains articles on this issue by experts, researchers and those involved in the policy-making side of cultural management. In particular, it highlights the need for long-term research and the importance of raising public awareness of our cultural heritage and its protection. [From CoE website]

Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Resources Threatened by Climate Change
Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Resources Threatened by Climate Change

Author: Chiara Bertolin

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 3039211242

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With its wide spectrum of data, case studies, monitoring, and experimental and numerical simulation techniques, the multidisciplinary approach of material, environmental, and computer science applied to the conservation of cultural heritage offers several opportunities for the heritage science and conservation community to map and monitor state-of-the-art knowledge on natural and human-induced climate change impacts on cultural heritage—mainly constituted by the built environment—in Europe and Latin America. Geosciences’ Special Issue titled “Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Resources Threatened by Climate Change” was launched to take stock of the existing but still fragmentary knowledge on this challenge, and to enable the community to respond to the implementation of the Paris agreement. These 10 papers exploit a broad range of data derived from preventive conservation monitoring conducted indoors in museums, churches, historical buildings, or outdoors in archeological sites and city centers. Case studies presented in the papers focus on a well-assorted sample of decay phenomena occurring on heritage materials (e.g., surface recession and biomass accumulation on limestone, depositions of pollutant on marble, salt weathering on inorganic building materials, and weathering processes on mortars in many local- to regional-scale study areas in the Scandinavian Peninsula, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Italy, Greece, and Panama). Besides monitoring, the methodological approaches showcased include, but are not limited to, original material characterization, decay product characterization, and climate and numerical modelling on material components for assessing environmental impact and climate change effects.

Microclimate for Cultural Heritage
Microclimate for Cultural Heritage

Author: Dario Camuffo

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-04

Total Pages: 557

ISBN-13: 0444632980

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Microclimate for Cultural Heritage: Conservation and Restoration of Indoor and Outdoor Monuments, Second Edition, is a cutting-edge, theoretical, and practical handbook concerning microclimate, environmental factors, and conservation of cultural heritage. Although the focus is on cultural heritage objects, most of the theory and instrumental methodologies are common to other fields of application, such as atmospheric and environmental sciences. Microclimate for Cultural Heritage, Second Edition, is a useful treatise on microphysics and a practical handbook for conservators and specialists in physics, chemistry, architecture, engineering, geology, and biology who work in the multidisciplinary field of the environment, and, in particular, in the conservation of works of art. Part I, devoted to applied theory, is a concise treatise on microphysics, which includes a survey on the basic ideas of environmental diagnosis and conservation. The second part of the book focuses on practical utilization, and shows in detail how field surveys should be performed, with many suggestions and examples, as well as some common errors to avoid. - Presents updated scientific and technological findings based on the novel European standards on microclimate and cultural heritage - Includes the latest information on experimental research on environmental factors and their impact on materials, such as the behavior of water and its interactions with cultural heritage materials - Contains case studies of outdoor and indoor microclimate conditions and their effects, providing ideas for readers facing similar problems caused by heat, water, radiation, pollution, or air motions - Covers instruments and methods for practical applications to help readers understand, to observe and interpret observations, and avoid errors

Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage
Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage

Author: C. Saiz-Jimenez

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2004-08-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9789058096821

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This collection includes thirty-six important recent works on the effects of pollutants on heritage sites, including thirty papers delivered to the Seville International Workshop on Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage in 2003, and six invited new additions. All papers have been written by a team of leading international contributors and are divided into five subject areas to cover the main topics of interest today. This volume is aimed at archaeologists and molecular biologists as well as advanced students and researchers in the fields of biodeterioration, building materials, micro-organisms and cultural heritage.