Impact Assessment and Conservation Strategies for Managing Heritage During Climate Change
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editor
2. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Interests: air pollution exposure; air pollution in China; fireworks pollution; heritage climatology
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Dear Colleagues,
Shifts in climate pose special challenges for the management of heritage sites collections and even intangible inherited elements of our culture. The future can be unpredictable, and as the climate changes slowly, other immediate threats can seem more pressing. Furthermore, planning for projects is rarely done over timescales of 30–100 years, characteristic of climate change. Threats from the climate, once vague utterances about a warmer world, increasingly benefit from models that have higher spatial and temporal resolution. The need to tune meteorological parameters so they better represent the pressures the future imposes upon heritage is now well-understood. Fortunately, in many places, future threats will already have been experienced elsewhere, so good practice may be clearly defined. Despite the large body of research into future heritage climates, important questions remain: (i) how management strategies would best use improved understanding of future heritage climates and assess their impact, (ii) what adaptation strategies would be best for sites, buildings, objects, and intangible heritage, and (iii) how a changed climate will propagate indoors? Naturally there are errors in predictions, so how should we determine how such errors might cause poor decision-making in the management of heritage and what is needed to reduce this? Much work lies ahead, so this volume aims to acquire papers that outline responses so necessary for our strategic management of heritage.
Prof. Dr. Peter Brimblecombe
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate and air pollution history
- climate change effect on heritage
- long term damage to buildings
- air pollution in museum
- changes in museum insects
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