Assessing Public Preferences of Landscape and Landscape Attributes: a Case Study of the Proposed Appalachian Geopark Project in West Virginia, USAGeoheritage - Tập 15 - Trang 1-20 - 2023
Ganga Nakarmi, Michael P. Strager, Charles Yuill, Jasmine C. Moreira, Robert C. Burns, Peter Butler
Photographs have been utilized as substitutes for on-site scenes in the assessment and evaluation of landscape’s visual quality, perspective, and preference. Visual quality, perception, and preference are assessed through human eyes and their judgment. However, the human judgement is often generally categorized as expert vs. citizen. Literature searches show that the expert-based assessment domina...... hiện toàn bộ
Assessment of Urban Geotourism Resources: An Example of Two Geocultural Sites in Brno, Czech RepublicGeoheritage - Tập 12 - Trang 1-12 - 2020
Lucie Kubalíková, Karel Kirchner, František Kuda, Aleš Bajer
Geodiversity and geoheritage within urban areas have some specific characteristics in comparison to those in natural and rural areas. They influence and are influenced by urban development, they are strongly modified by human activities and they are usually closely related to the culture, architecture and history (cultural heritage). Geoheritage (especially geosites or geoheritage ex situ) is the ...... hiện toàn bộ
Newly Emerging Geosites in the Polish Western Outer Carpathians as an Asset for Geoeducation and GeotourismGeoheritage - Tập 11 - Trang 1247-1256 - 2019
Wiktor Głowacki
This study focuses on Flysch Carpathian river valleys recently reshaped by the fluvial erosion. Geological structures of these mountains are rather monotonous. However, numerous floods that occurred in recent decades and the abrasion of banks of water reservoirs have made many parts of valleys particularly interesting not only for geologists but also for tourists and for local people as a pleasant...... hiện toàn bộ
The ABC Concept—Value Added to the Earth Heritage Interpretation?Geoheritage - Tập 13 - Trang 1-25 - 2021
M. Pásková, J. Zelenka, T. Ogasawara, B. Zavala, I. Astete
Holistic interpretation of Earth heritage is one of the most important tasks of UNESCO Global geoparks. The ABC (abiotic, biotic, and cultural interconnections) concept is a potential interpretive approach used in Earth heritage popularization through geotourism. Apart of the deeper understanding of this concept, this study explores the application of this concept in selected geoparks. The Colca a...... hiện toàn bộ
Meteora: a Billion Years of Geological History in Greece to Create a World Heritage SiteGeoheritage - Tập 12 - Trang 1-16 - 2020
Anne Ewing Rassios, Dina Ghikas, Yildirim Dilek, Agni Vamvaka, Anna Batsi, Petros Koutsovitis
The rock pinnacles of the Meteora UNESCO World Heritage Site, Central Greece, are global geologic icons but are inadequately studied. Herein, we summarize decades of observations leading to a geohistory and geoenvironmental model of the unique conditions that were essential for their creation. Via this synthesis, we hope thus to encourage further specialized studies of the West Thessaly-Meteora re...... hiện toàn bộ
Geoconservation in Sicily (Italy): the Example of the Isola delle Femmine (Palermo)Geoheritage - - 2022
Vincenzo Randazzo, Simona Todaro, S. Provenzale, V. Di Dio, Pietro Di Stefano
Abstract
The Regional Administration of Sicily recently erected Isola delle Femmine—a small island of the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to Palermo—as a geosite. A detailed geological survey has been carried out in order to define the most important geological features of the island together with the development of a new geological map based on topographic data and a digita...... hiện toàn bộ