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Geoheritage Resources in Polish Landscape Parks as a Basis for Developing a Network of Geoparks

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  • Sylwia Sygar

    (Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Kraśnicka Av. 2d, 20-718 Lublin, Poland)

  • Wojciech Zgłobicki

    (Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Kraśnicka Av. 2d, 20-718 Lublin, Poland)

Abstract

Despite intensive scientific research on geodiversity and geotourism, the development of a network of geoparks in Poland has been slow. There are only two geoparks here. The reasons include difficulties of an organisational nature. The existing network of spatial forms of nature conservation should be used to streamline the process of establishing geoparks. The areas of the potential geoparks partially overlap with the areas of the landscape parks. The study presents a comprehensive quantitative assessment of abiotic nature sites (abiotic nature reserves, abiotic natural phenomena, documentation sites, geosites) occurring in landscape parks (125 in Poland). Parks with the greatest number of such sites and the highest geoheritage value are indicated (10% of the total number). Within these areas, new geoparks could be established and tourism based on geoheritage resources could be developed. In some cases, landscape parks located within the planned geoparks feature a small number of geoheritage sites, which may indicate the occurrence of deficiencies in the system of spatial forms of abiotic nature conservation in Poland.

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  • Sylwia Sygar & Wojciech Zgłobicki, 2022. "Geoheritage Resources in Polish Landscape Parks as a Basis for Developing a Network of Geoparks," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(12), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:11:y:2022:i:12:p:2277-:d:1001656
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