The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage

The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage
Author: John Watt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009-06-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0387848932

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
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2004-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1482283999

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

Smoke and Mirrors

Smoke and Mirrors
Author: E. Melanie Dupuis
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814719619

A history of the politics of air pollution.

Sustained Care of the Cultural Heritage Against Pollution

Sustained Care of the Cultural Heritage Against Pollution
Author: José María Ballester
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789287142337

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]

Monitoring, Control and Effects of Air Pollution

Monitoring, Control and Effects of Air Pollution
Author: Andrzej Chmielewski
Publisher: IntechOpen
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2011-08-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789533075266

The book addresses the subjects related to the selected aspects of pollutants emission, monitoring and their effects. The most of recent publications concentrated on the review of the pollutants emissions from industry, especially power sector. In this one emissions from opencast mining and transport are addressed as well. Beside of SOx and NOx emissions, small particles and other pollutants (e.g. VOC, ammonia) have adverse effect on environment and human being. The natural emissions (e.g. from volcanoes) has contribution to the pollutants concentration and atmospheric chemistry governs speciation of pollutants, as in the case of secondary acidification. The methods of ambient air pollution monitoring based on modern instrumentation allow the verification of dispersion models and balancing of mass emissions. The comfort of everyday human's activity is influenced by indoor and public transport vehicles interior air contamination, which is effected even by the professional appliances operation. The outdoor pollution leads to cultural heritage objects deterioration, the mechanism are studied and the methods of rehabilitation developed. However to prevent emissions the new technologies are being developed, the new class of these technologies are plasma processes, which are briefly reviewed at the final part of the book.

Climate Change as a Threat to Peace

Climate Change as a Threat to Peace
Author: Sabine von Schorlemer
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783653052053

The volume takes a look at how impacts of climate change on cultural heritage and cultural diversity may challenge sustainable global peace. While the importance of the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflicts becomes recognized, the role of cultural policy as a reconciliatory, proactive element of sustainable peace has been underestimated.