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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   THE ASSESSMENT OF GEOMORPHOSITES OF TOURIST INTEREST IN THE TRASCĂU MOUNTAINS.

Authors:  GABRIELA COCEAN, V. SURDEANU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  

When it comes to the inventory and assessment of geomorphosites, there is a wide choice of methods that can be applied, but none of them have the general approvement and recognition. There are however five methods, developed by the members of the Geosites working group from the IAG that were more intensely promoted. There have been authors that tried to extract the common features of these methods, in terms of evaluation criteria and general method of assessment, but have not been entirely successful. Some of these methods may be using criteria that are too subjective, or too vaguely expressed, others have their limitations due to the omission of some criteria, while others contain errors in the notation scales or even formulas. Under these circumstances, we propose a new method of assessment, that represents a nuanced approach, based on the structural values of a geomorphosite, leading to the functional ones. In the first category we include the geomorphic values of the site, the aesthetic and the ecological ones, that is, the intrinsic features of the site. The second group of values focuses on the features derived from the first ones, the functional values, represented by the scientific, cultural and economic values. For quantifying each of these values, specific indices are to be used, numerically expressed on a 0 to 1 scale.

Keywords: geomorphosites, assessment, value, criteria.

 
         
     
         
         
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