The damage functions discussed in Chapters 3 and 4 can be used to assess the impact of pollution by calculating the rate at which a given material will corrode or soil. If it is desirable for policy development to estimate a regional impact, there is one other vital data component required, which is an estimate of the amount of each material being affected that is known as the stock at risk. This vital area remains seriously under-researched, mainly due to the high cost and complexity of compiling inventories. To date actually, there are no stock-at-risk estimates of any heritage materials at a continental level. Some research groups and institutions have tried to develop maps of heritage at risk in different countries, frequently based on different criteria, choosing different parameters of risk and materials.
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Some details of the Risk Map of Cultural Heritage in Italy can be found here:
The defining of the character of landscapes discussed above is being undertaken by English Nature and The Countryside Agency and further details can be found on the Countryside Agency’s website
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The authors of this chapter wish to express their appreciation to all the colleagues in the MULTI-ASSESS and CULT-STRAT consortia for their support, provision of data and stimulating discussions. We are particularly grateful to Fernando Viejo, Jesús M. Vega and M. Morcillo from the National Centre for Metallurgical Research (CENIM/CSIC), Madrid, Spain, Edward Andrews, Middlesex University, UK, Jan Bryscejn, ITAM, and Dagmar Knotková from SVOUM, Czech Republic for their contributions to this chapter.
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Watt, J. et al. (2009). Stock at Risk. In: Hamilton, R., Kucera, V., Tidblad, J., Watt, J. (eds) The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84893-8_6
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