Procedure for evaluation of the attractiveness of the quarries’ landscape

Baczyńska Elżbieta, Lorenc Marek W. () and Kaźmierczak Urszula
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Lorenc Marek W.: Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, ul. Grunwaldzka 55, 50-357Wrocław, Poland
Kaźmierczak Urszula: Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

Acta Geoturistica, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Post-mining workings, especially after the exploitation of the rocks, become attractive mainly because of their landscape forms. These new forms of landscape can be an important element of tourist interest, and can cause the regional tourist revival. Quarries, as a quite specific forms, may, however, be received by individuals, as more or less attractive. The existing methods of landscape attractiveness evaluation cannot be directly applied to assess the attractiveness of abandoned quarries without the introduction of some partial criteria. The article attempts to present the methodological basis of the procedure for evaluating the attractiveness of the landscape of the quarries by setting new criteria for such an assessment. To do this, the method of semantic differential, called the Osgood’s Method, was used, as well as principles of entropy and point bonitation. The evaluation of the attractiveness of the quarries’ landscape consists of the results of these methods. On such basis, four classes of the attractiveness of the landscape of abandoned quarries have been defined.

Keywords: mining; quarry; landscape; attractiveness; evaluation; rocks exploitation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/agta-2017-0001

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