CEST Proceedings are published under the ISSN 2944-9820.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF TOURISM AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE CULTURAL HERITAGE
FRAGKOU D., SINOU M.
Topic:
Environmental impacts of tourism and sustainable tourism development
The natural and cultural heritage, peculiar and living cultures are great tourist attraction. The intensive and inefficient management of tourism and the association with this development can damage the nature, integrity and the dominant characteristics of these. In this way the ecological...Read more
Keywords:
Architecture, cultural heritage, environmental protection
Microbiological diversity and microbial related risks at Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow, Poland
(Corresponding) Pyzik A., Dyda M., Wilkojc E., Winiewicz-Wolska J.
Topic:
Pollution control and public health
Microorganisms are known to colonize and modify various environments, including cultural heritage buildings. Anthropogenic indoor environments often provides specific conditions for microbial growth e.g. microclimatic parameters. These conditions are potentially easy to control thus it is advisable...Read more
Keywords:
cultural heritage, microbiological diversity, high-throughput sequencing
Monitoring of bio-aerosols, gaseous and Particulate Matter (PM) pollution of Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow, Poland.
(Corresponding) Dyda M., Pyzik A., Drabik P., Istel L., Wiłkojć E., Buchwald-Zięcina O., Bogdanowicz-Prus A., Skłodowska A.
Topic:
Air pollution
Krakow is now firmly established as one of the Europe’s top tourist destinations and, at the same time, it is one of the cities with the worst air quality in Europe. The Wawel Royal Castle is of the most important museum and predominatingly visited attraction of the city of Krakow (in 2017, the...Read more
Keywords:
cultural heritage, particulate matter pollution, microbiological contamination, air pollution, preventive conservation
Assessing the risks of climate change for cultural heritage – The CLIMASCAPE project
(Corresponding) Cartalis C., Polydoros A., Mavrakou T., Philippopoulos K., Asprogerakas E., Pantazis P., Samarina A., Zoumpaki S., Karambinis M.
Topic:
Environmental management and policies
The protection of cultural heritage sites from the climate change effects is a central priority for protecting the cultural capital of Greece, and the sustainability of the related touristic flows. This paper describes the conceptual framework of the CLIMASCAPE project which aims to develop a...Read more
Keywords:
Cultural heritage, Climate change, Adaptation, Tourism
