Historic preservation priorities for climate adaptation

Global Climate Change Adaptation Priorities for Biodiversity and Food Security

International policy is placing increasing emphasis on adaptation to climate change, including the allocation of new funds to assist adaptation efforts. Climate change adaptation funding may be most effective where it meets integrated goals, but global geographic priorities based on multiple development and ecological criteria are not well characterized. Here we show that human and natural adap...

Wallpapers in Historic Preservation

Historic Urban Environment Conservation Challenges and Priorities for Action

Enabling Adaptation: Priorities for Supporting the Rural Poor in a Changing Climate

Effective climate adaptation requires an enabling environment—one that grants the poor the rights, resources and access they need to sustain and benefi t from ecosystems, governments and markets. Development experience provides important lessons for fostering such enabling environments, including principles of good governance that provide the rural poor with control of the ecosystems on which t...

Basics of Wood Inspection: Considerations for Historic Preservation

Wood performs well in structures, often for hundreds of years or more, when it is kept dry and protected from the deleterious effects of moisture and biological deterioration. The open construction typical of historic structures, which provides air infiltration into the structure, makes it possible for the wood to dry quickly if it gets wet. Often this type of construction is criticized for per...