EGOR: Environmental Guidelines: Opportunities and Risks

该研究组将汇集一个由主要专业人员、代表AHRC/EPSRC学科的学术研究人员以及遗产从业人员组成的团队，以评估当前文化遗产环境指南应对气候变化的成本和风险。这一主题具有国家和国际层面的意义，因为气候变化、能源消耗、参观和更多获取藏品的压力将继续在21世纪全球范围内对文化遗产提出相当大的需求。这些变化的规模和速度对管理长期的保护物质文化的长期保护，是国内和国际专业团体讨论的焦点。本研究组将为这场辩论提供信息。当前的环境参数和国家和国际指导方针和标准以及政府可持续发展目标中规定的容忍度在形成实践中发挥着关键作用在文化遗产部门，如建筑施工和环境管理。这包括控制温度、湿度、光线和污染--这些是影响物质文化保护的主要因素。环境准则对馆藏的存储、访问、出借和展示方式产生重大影响。同样，文化遗产部门也不能幸免于全球责任带来的挑战：例如，减少对化石燃料的依赖，改变行为，支持再利用和替代能源。正是在这种情况下，目前的环境准则，旨在满足一个商定的标准，管理物质文化的变化，使游客能够访问和体验收藏品的季节性标准的舒适，并提供访问收藏品在本地和国际上的适当性正在受到质疑的“成本”，这正在实现。不幸的是，这个问题没有简单或引人注目的答案：需要识别风险，了解成本，评估选项。EGOR将提供必要的框架来发展这一领域的思维，以便在理解气候变化中当前环境指南，标准和目标的风险和不确定性方面实现知识上的飞跃。考虑将主要集中在室内环境，收藏品和从事文化遗产竞技场工作的人，并将建立在其他研究项目建立的基础上，例如诺亚方舟（欧盟），工程我们的未来（EPSRC），与环境变化共存（NERC）主要集中在户外气候影响上。这将通过5个连续活动来实现：1.指导小组的成立会议，其中包括专业领导人，并命名的调查人员，以塑造思维和启动思想和观点的交叉施肥;2。3次工作组会议，由艺术史、工程、材料科学和保护方面的专家组成，进行连贯的讨论和热烈的辩论，以了解当前环境准则在不断变化的气候中对人类、他们的价值观和历史、收藏品所在的建筑物（通常是历史建筑本身）和收藏品的影响。将在全球责任的背景下审议所涉问题。为期两天的驻地活动将结束这一调查进程;三个工作组将提出各自的研究结果，并将进一步讨论共同和分歧的领域，以确定在不断变化的气候下环境准则和标准的风险和不确定性，以及为这场辩论提供充分信息所需的杰出研究。会议结束时将讨论在这一主题范围内出现的牵头研究，并在2009年7月的方案会议上提出。

This research cluster will bring together a team of key professionals, academic researchers representing AHRC/EPSRC disciplines as well as heritage practitioners to appraise the costs and risks of current environmental guidelines for cultural heritage in response to a changing climate. This theme has a national and international dimension since climate change, energy consumption, visitation and pressures for greater access to collections will continue to make considerable demand on cultural heritage in the 21st century globally. The scale and pace of these changes are posing unique challenges to managing the long-term preservation of material culture and are the focus of discussion amongst professional communities both nationally and internationally.This research cluster will inform this debate.Current environmental parameters and tolerances set out in national and international guidelines and standards as well as Governmental Sustainable Development Targets play a critical role in shaping practices in the cultural heritage sector such as building construction, and environmental management. This includes the control of temperature, moisture, light and pollution - the main factors affecting the conservation of material culture. Environmental guidelines impact significantly on how collections are stored, accessed, loaned and displayed. Equally, the cultural heritage sector is not immune from the challenges posed by global responsibility: reducing reliance on fossil fuels, changing behaviours in favour of re-use and alternative energy sources, for example. It is within this context the appropriateness of current environmental guidelines designed to meet an agreed standard for managing material culture change, enable visitors to access and experience collections to a seasonal standard of comfort, and provide access to collections both locally and internationally is being questioned as the 'costs' of this are being realised. Unfortunately, there are no easy or headline-grabbing answers to this problem: the risks need to be identified, the costs understood, the options appraised. EGOR will provide the necessary framework to develop thinking in this area in order to realise an intellectual step change in understanding the risks and uncertainties of current environmental guidelines, standards and targets in a changing climate. Consideration will be largely focused on indoor environments, collections and the people who engage with and work in the cultural heritage arena, and will build on foundations established by other research projects e.g. Noah's Ark (EU), Engineering our Futures (EPSRC), Living with Environmental Change (NERC) largely focused on climate impacts outdoors. This will be achieved through 5 sequential activities: 1. An inaugural meeting of the steering group which includes professional leaders, and named investigators to shape thinking and initiate cross fertilisation of ideas and perspectives;2. 3 working group meetings comprising specialists in art history, engineering, material science and conservation for coherent discussion, and lively debate to understand the implication for current environmental guidelines in a changing climate for people, their values and history, buildings housing collections (often historic structures themselves) and collections. The implications will be considered against a background of global responsibility.3. A two-day residential event will conclude this investigative process; the three working groups will present their findings, areas of convergence and divergence will be further debated to determine the risks and uncertainties surrounding environmental guidelines and standards in a changing climate, and the outstanding research needed to fully inform this debate.A summary of the challenges and user-led research emerging within this theme will be reached at the end of the meeting and presented at the Programme conference in July 2009.