Climate Change and Conservation of Coastal Built Heritage
This book presents the preservation principles and the current environmental challenges relating to monitoring heritage sites and buildings under the effects of climate change. It provides a clear overview of conservation action levels and the importance
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Climate Change and Conservation of Coastal Built Heritage
Climate Change and Conservation of Coastal Built Heritage
Maya Hassan Hui Xie •
Climate Change and Conservation of Coastal Built Heritage
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Maya Hassan Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning Chongqing University Chongqing, China
Hui Xie Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning Chongqing University Chongqing, China
Faculty of Architecture Tishreen University Lattakia, Syria
ISBN 978-981-13-8671-8 ISBN 978-981-13-8672-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8672-5
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Preface
The coasts of seas and river banks are the first environment for the emergence of human civilizations, due to the natural and climatic factors. At the same time, they are considered as the first threatened areas of climate changes, which rapidly happen since the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, represented by the global warming and the problem of rising water levels. These climate changes will result in catastrophic human consequences and will threaten archaeological sites and cultural inventory in many countries of the world if rapid action is not taken to address them. Conservation of coastal cultural heritage for the next generation and the sustainable and resilience concerning are required. This book aims to develop a protection strategy for coastal areas and built heritage by using both Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processing to face the problems and down to have whole image perception and find a solution. The first part presented the conservation of coastal built heritage in the era of clima
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