Overview
Essays on aspects of the natural world, its heritage, and how best to preserve it. Europe's engagement from the late sixteenth century onwards in scientific Earth science inquiry has generated numerous and varied collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils, together with their associated archives, artworks and publications, forming a rich cultural geoheritage held in major private and especially royal and aristocratic collections, museums, universities, archives and libraries. The mines, quarries, geological structures, landforms, minerals, rocks and fossils - or geodiversity - that underpin these collections populate past and present-day Earth science literature. However, for too long their scientific, historic and cultural significance was not universally recognised and generally they were not accorded adequate resources and protection - or geoconservation. Hence, geotourism was developed in the 1990s to raise public awareness of Europe's geoheritage and geodiversity and to promote itsgeoconservation; the volume's theoretical essays and case studies examine these four core geoelements and provide a timely introduction for anyone interested in natural history museums, countryside management, and landscape-basedtourism. Dr Thomas A. Hose is an Honorary Research Associate in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol. He has pioneered the recognition of and research into geotourism, and is the author of the world's first doctoral thesis on the subject. Contributors: Kevin Crawford, Peter Davis, John E. Gordon. Thomas A. Hose, Jonathan G. Larwood, Slobodan B. Markovic, Martin Munt, Emmanuel Reynard, Nemanja Tomic, Djordjije A. Vasiljevic, Margaret Wood, Volker Wrede
Full Product Details
Author: Thomas A. Hose ,
Djordjije Vasiljevic ,
Emmanuel Reynard ,
John Conway
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Volume: v. 19
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.732kg
ISBN: 9781783271474
ISBN 10: 1783271477
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 17 November 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Strengthen(s) the very basis in which we work. It is well worthwhile to read. PROGEO NEWSLETTER
Essential reading for anyone engaged in any aspect of geotourism and geohertiage. DOWN TO EARTH MAGAZINE Strengthen[s] the very basis in which we work. It is well worthwhile to read. PROGEO NEWSLETTER
Author Information
Honorary Research Associate, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
