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Climate change, coastal built heritage, and critical challenges facing the heritage law frameworks of the United States, United Kingdom, and France

open access: yesBuilt Heritage, 2022
Climate change poses a particular threat to the world’s unique built heritage—historic buildings, sites monuments, and museums. As preserving built heritage resources from climate change becomes a global priority, understanding the current inadequacies ...
Ryan Rowberry
doaj   +1 more source

High‐elevation endemic plants predicted to lose habitat from changing climate in Washington State

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise High‐elevation plants face unique challenges from potential climate change impacts that will likely require upslope migration into increasingly smaller suitable habitat. This situation is particularly acute for endemic species that by definition occupy small geographic ranges.
Nicholas L. Gjording   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Department of Historic Objects Conservation, Faculty of Building and Architecture, Lublin University of Technology

open access: yesBudownictwo i Architektura, 2012
State of knowledge about how to use chemical injection in calcareous rock is unsatisfactory. This results, primarily, from the locality using of the stone and its small porous structure.
Maciej Trochonowicz
doaj   +1 more source

Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Old-growth Ficus trees provide soil water and carbon storage to urban greenspaces in a Brazilian metropolis

open access: yesCity and Environment Interactions
Urban flooding has been considered one of the most severe natural disasters around the world, and urban greenspaces can provide important flood regulation ecosystem services.
Beatriz Fernandes Barros   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Testing the possibility of producing chemical injection in the walls of calcareous stones and in the lime mortars

open access: yesBudownictwo i Architektura, 2013
The obtained positive results of calcareous stone and lime mortar hydrophobisation allowed to expand the scope of research. It was decided to conduct a membrane trial implementation by injection in the walls.
Maciej Trochonowicz
doaj   +1 more source

Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Built Heritage and their Role for World Heritage Sites

open access: yes, 2012
The built heritage encapsulates the collective memory of a society. A village, a house, the built environment as a whole is a part of every single person´s history and is an important element to define a place as "home".
Herbig, Ulrike
core   +1 more source

Flat ceilings in historic buildings.

open access: yesBudownictwo i Architektura, 2009
Every building type action on a historic object should include recognition of character, age and the technology of constructional solutions. The conservator’s preservation can concern, and in some cases should concern the structural solutions.
Tomasz Nicer
doaj   +1 more source

Visual attention predictive model of built colonial heritage based on visual behaviour and subjective evaluation

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Although physiological measurements, subjective evaluation and other methods have been applied to visual attention research, architects still lack a systematic quantitative classification method when assessing the visual attention to built colonial ...
Yue Wu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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