Overview
- Presents a critical review of flood risk for heritage buildings
- Discusses the need to safeguard heritage buildings from extreme climatic phenomena such as floods
- Offers a synthesis of the current state of knowledge to benefit and guide experts and practitioners in related fields
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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About this book
This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings. In a first approach, the total number of potential parameters is effectively reduced and the selected criteria are divided into two different groups: the monument’s location in relation to a waterway, and the behaviour of its construction material in contact with water.
Above all, the book discusses the importance of architectural heritage and argues for the need to safeguard it from extreme climatic phenomena such as floods. As such, the book vividly reminds the scientific community that the intensification of the global warming and climate change will worsen throughout the 21st century, and that it is therefore necessary to adopt preventive measures to minimize, mitigate and control these adverse effects if we hope to avoid catastrophic consequences.
At the same time, the book takes into account a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines, such as civil engineering and architecture, offering a synthesis of the current state of knowledge to benefit and guide experts and practitioners in related fields.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hygrothermal Risk on Building Heritage
Book Subtitle: A Methodology for a Risk Map
Authors: João M.P.Q. Delgado, Ana Sofia Guimarães, Vasco Peixoto Freitas
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19114-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19113-3Published: 19 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19114-0Published: 05 May 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 60
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Building Materials, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts