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Mapping cultural heritage sites at risk: A support tool for heritage sites management

Journal of Urban Management
Under the threat of climate change, the world has become an increasingly unsafe place, with a series of extreme events causing devastation and high economic costs. These impacts are heterogeneous due to differences in climate change effects across regions and the varying socio-economic characteristics of affected places. This interconnection is crucial
Maria Giovanna Brandano, Chiara Conti, Marco Modica, Giulia Urso   +3 more
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of chemical degradation of epoxy resin binder used in the service of the Qin terracotta warriors

Scientific Reports
Since the Qin terracotta warriors were unearthed, polyamide 650 cross-linked E-44 epoxy resin binder has been employed to bond and restore them. In this paper, the chemical aging of the binders service in indoor natural environment during the past 30 ...
Siyu Tian, Wenhua Ma, Hua Li, Chunyan Wang, Yin Xia, Desheng Lan, Ping Zhou, Daodao Hu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Le vêtement historique hors des vitrines

In Situ
Guides wearing costumes can be frequently encountered in heritage sites and open-air museums in the East of Canada. Wearing reproductions of period costumes, they are there to answer visitors’ questions, to guide them through the exhibition space and to ...
Janie Deschênes
doaj   +1 more source

Creating a low carbon tourism community by public cognition, intention and behaviour change analysisa case study of a heritage site (Tianshan Tianchi, China)

Open Geosciences, 2017
This study attempts to explore the establishment of a low-carbon tourism community by public cognition, intention, and behaviour change analysis in a case study of a heritage site, China.
Wu Wenjie, Zhang Xiaolei, Yang Zhaoping, Wall Geoffrey, Wang Fang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

American 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, Erik W. Ertsgaard, David E. Giblin, Iris H. Dimpsey, Owen B. Bard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pass the Flame: Tentative Programs of Cultural Heritage Education Among Teenagers in Yuanmingyuan Site [PDF]

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
Yuanmingyuan is a very important cultural heritage site in Beijing, China. In order to improve the conservation of Yuanmingyuan Site and increase communication between the cultural heritage site and the public, especially the teenagers, our institute ...
R. Ni, L. Yin, T. Liu, X. Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Local Government Social Media Strategy for Public Awareness and Heritage Preservation [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, embodies Javanese cosmological and philosophical significance, prioritizing its preservation.
Ayu Ardhanariswari Kartika, Hendariningrum Retno, Rachmawati Iva, Wahyu Pratiwi Krisnandini   +3 more
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Is colonial heritage negative or not so much? Debating heritage discourses and selective interpretation of Kulangsu, China

Built Heritage, 2022
Heritage is in essence dissonant, especially colonial heritage in postcolonial nations. Via questionnaire surveys and interviews, this study investigates Kulangsu in Xiamen, China, a colonial heritage site mainly developed in the 19th and 20th centuries,
Ran Wei, Fang Wang
doaj   +1 more source