Overview
Combines the results of recent research with practical information for environmental managers
Provides an important reference manual for researchers, policy makers, economists and historic building managers working in the field of cultural heritage materials and their damage due to air pollution
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About this book
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage
Editors: Ron Hamilton, Vladimir Kucera, Johan Tidblad, John Watt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84893-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-84892-1Published: 17 September 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9789-9Published: 11 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-84893-8Published: 10 June 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 306
Topics: Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Cultural Heritage, Environmental Management, Urbanism, Building Repair and Maintenance, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning