Conservation risk assessment: a strategy for managing resources for preventive conservation
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Conservation Risk Assessment: a Strategy for Managing Resources for Preventive Conservation
Ideally, practitioners of preventive conservation should be able to quantify all risks to a collection and determine the most cost-effective means of reducing overall risk to that collection. This paper describes an attempt by the Canadian Museum of Nature to assess the risks to collections. Currently. the information required to produce accurate estimates of the magnitude of many risks is lack...
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عنوان ژورنال: Studies in Conservation
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0039-3630,2047-0584
DOI: 10.1179/sic.1994.39.supplement-2.12