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Geosciences, 2023 The relationship between humans and the environment in the modern world is challenging. UNESCO Global Geoparks are current holistic approaches for protecting and managing geographical areas that emphasise local communities and sustainability.
Alexandros Aristotelis Koupatsiaris +1 more
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Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional, 2023 Geopark telah dikembangkan saat ini untuk dua dekade terakhir, dan sejumlah tahapan dapat dikenal dalam perkembangannya. Bagaimana masa depan geopark global ? Sejak ditetapkan oleh UNESCO, berbagai geopark global meningkat setiap tahun.
Leonard Felix Hutabarat
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Geoheritage Resources in Polish Landscape Parks as a Basis for Developing a Network of Geoparks
Land, 2022 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.
Sylwia Sygar, Wojciech Zgłobicki
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A Review of Geotourism and Geoparks: Is Africa missing out on this new mechanism for the development of sustainable tourism? [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2019 This paper uses sustainable tourism development paradigm to demonstrate the economic, social-cultural and environmental potentialities presented by ‘Geotourism’ and its primary product ‘Geoparks’ in the quest for sustainable tourism development in Africa.
Percy Mabvuto Ngwira
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Recent State Policy and Its Impact on Geopark Establishment and Operation in Slovakia
Land, 2021 The geological evolution and structure of the territory of Slovakia plays a key role in the current geodiversity of the country. The importance of this key element of the environment is widely and most effectively represented in geoparks.
Marián Lukáč +3 more
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Land, 2022 Geoparks and geotourism are relatively new activities within tourism. However, both have grown rapidly over the past decade. Geoparks, as an innovation for the conservation of geoheritage, play an important role in the development of geotourism ...
Kejian Xu, Wenhui Wu
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Karst as Important Resource for Geopark-Based Tourism: Current State and Biases
Resources, 2018 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Global Geoparks initiative balances the conservation of geological heritage with its use in purposes of tourism industry.
Dmitry A. Ruban
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Global geoparks: Opportunity for developing or “toy” for developed?
International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2023 Geoparks can provide socio-economical benefits to local communities, but their relative importance to developed and developing countries is yet to be fully realized.
Dmitry A. Ruban +3 more
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Online Marketing of European Geoparks as a Landscape Promotion Tool
Land, 2023 In the current post-COVID-19 era, online marketing is a supporting tool in marketing. The potential visitors to tourism destinations, such as geoparks, are increasingly guided and oriented by the rules of online marketing as the online space represents ...
Mário Molokáč +4 more
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Barriers in functioning of Czech geoparks in the context of different circumstances
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2016 The article focuses on geoparks as areas with a specific form of local heritage protection. It contributes to a research into two interconnected fields: firstly, the research into local people’s participation in local development; secondly, the research ...
Iveta Čtveráková +3 more
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