A geomorphological approach to geodiversity – its a pplications to geoconservation and geotourism
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2012
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych UAM
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Geodiversity is becoming widely considered alongside biodiversity by conservation agencies and has
importance for geotourism. Geomorphology has a central role in understanding geodiversity, particularly at
regional and local scales. By focusing on the processes that interact at the earth’s surface and how they respond
to external forcing, geomorphology analyses both landscape evolution and real-time changes over different timescales.
Diversity reflects the complexity of process systems and history. Connectivity and sensitivity amongst
landscape elements are highly varied over space and time, leading to divergence and increasing diversity over
time. By using these principles within constrained chronologies of landscape change, studies of geodiversity can
become a valuable tool in ecosystem management and the delivery of ecosystem services, including sustainable
geotourism.
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Geodiversity, Landscape sensitivity, Geoconservation, Geomorphic complexity, Geotourism
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 31 (1), 2012, pp. 81-89
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978-83-62662-62-3