Open AccessOur Environment Ruined? Environmental Control Reconsidered as a Strategy for Conservation
Author(s) -
Dale Peters
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of conservation and museum studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2049-4572
pISSN - 1364-0429
DOI - 10.5334/jcms.1962
Subject(s) - mechanism (biology) , control (management) , environmental stress , environmental planning , environmental science , biochemical engineering , environmental ethics , engineering , environmental protection , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , artificial intelligence
This paper examines the current debate on guidelines for environmental control in the light of deterioration mechanisms induced and accelerated by fluctuations in relative humidity. Our traditional understanding of these guidelines, based on forces of physical stress and biodeterioration, is developed by an investigation of the oxidative mechanism of chemical deterioration of library and archival materials