Climate Change and Museums: a Book About Indoor Risks
Climate change, presumably, will affect the way buildings will be designed and managed. Also museums are challenged by such risk...
This category includes posts that deal with research and publications on the risks and protection of cultural heritage
Climate change, presumably, will affect the way buildings will be designed and managed. Also museums are challenged by such risk...
In three weeks, between January and February 2019, the STORM Academy 2019 has been held in Rome, within the EU...
The European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) forms the regional platform structure of Europe of the UNISDR, the U.N. ...
CURE (Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery) is a position paper published in 2018 by UNESCO and the World Bank...
Cover of the ICCROM - Prince Claus Fund handbook "FIRST AID TO CULTURAL HERITAGE IN TIMES OF CRISIS" On October...
One of the main problems of emergency management in case of damage reported by historic buildings after an earthquake is...
The protection of cultural heritage mainly aims to prevent any type of danger from posing an excessive risk to the...
Protecting Cultural Heritage form disasters needs different actions, one of the more important of which is to make aware stakeholders...
When evaluating the fire risks to cultural resources, the focus is typically on buildings and artifacts, with forest or vegetation...
Watercolor images are among the most vulnerable artefacts to the effects of firefighting water systems. Watercolor images are among the...
USDA - Forest Service - Wildland Fire in Ecosystems Effects of Fire on Cultural Resources and Archaeology. Fires can lead to the...
Understanding the situation is a crucial objective for emergency services when designing systems and procedures for use during or after...
Risks to cultural heritage vary from catastrophic events (such as earthquakes, floods, etc) to gradual processes (such as chemical, physical,...
STORM (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) is a research and development project initiated by the European...
Cover of COTAC report COTAC is the Council on Training in Architectural Conservation. On 20 November 2014 the COTAC’s Annual...
picture taken from Kosmas Dimitropoulos , Kovanc Köse, Nikos Grammalidis, and Enis Cetin paper Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is the...
In some cases, fire protection systems can be useful to improve the environment of museums and galleries, like the active...
Cover of the 1989 document "Fire Safety Retrofitting in Historic Buildings", later replaced by procedures published on the US General...
Ageing firefighting installations can cause severe reliability problems in historic buildings. An interesting article (Corrosion Process Inside Steel Fire Sprinkler...
State of New South Wales (Australia) has published the Guidelines on fire safety in heritage buildings. In the introduction to...
Arson has been in history and continues to pose a serious risk to historic and cultural buildings. In fact, the...
One of the issues addressed during the Cost C17 Action "Fire Loss to Built Heritage" has been the role of...