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Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Resources Threatened by Climate Change
Chiara Bertolin
2019
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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.
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Keywords
- ?13C
- ?18O
- adaptation
- biological decay
- biomass accumulation
- built cultural heritage weathering
- Built heritage
- Central America
- chemical decay
- Climate Change
- climate change scenarios
- climate modelling
- climate variations
- Conservation
- cultural heritage
- damage functions
- decay
- degradation
- depositions on marble
- Environmental impact
- experimental research
- exposure tests
- heritage materials
- hygrothermal simulation models
- indoor air quality
- indoor climate
- long-term monitoring
- Management
- masonry
- measurements
- mechanical decay
- medieval buildings
- Mineralogy
- mitigation
- mitigation actions
- moisture transport
- mortars
- Norwegian protected buildings
- outdoor climate
- preventative conservation
- preventive conservation
- relative humidity
- salt climatology
- salt crystallisation
- Scandinavian countries
- Stable isotopes
- surface recession
- typical and extreme weather conditions
- warning report
- Wood
- zero status
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03921-125-8Editions
