Assessing the geotourism potential of abandoned quarries with multitemporal data (České Středohoří Mts., Czechia)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2017-0008" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2017-0008</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2017-0008" target="_blank" >10.1515/geosc-2017-0008</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessing the geotourism potential of abandoned quarries with multitemporal data (České Středohoří Mts., Czechia)

Original language description

Quarrying represents a major human impact on the landscape. The positive effects of quarrying have also been appreciated over the last several decades and concern the role of quarries as sites with the potential for geoscientific education and geotourism. In this paper we present a procedure for establishing a multitemporal database of abandoned quarries and their multicriterial assessment in order to determine sites suitable for geotourism purposes. The case of the České středohoří Protected Landscape Area in Northern Czechia is used, as an example of conflicting interest between nature conservation and intense quarrying. Using the combination of old maps and current orthophotomaps, we identified 80 (mid-19th Century), 57 (mid-20th Century) and 38 (2007) quarries. 104 of them were further evaluated according to criteria of scientific and educational value and ?potential use? value (visibility, accessibility and extent). This process enabled to determine sites with the highest suitability for geotourism purposes. Finally, we discuss management context for these sites, and possible threats to the sites caused by increased geotourism.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

GeoScape

ISSN

1802-1115

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

93-111

UT code for WoS article

000419530500004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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