Inland Salinas in Spain: Classification, Characterisation, and Reflections on Unique Cultural Landscapes and Geoheritage

García, Emilio Iranzo; Hueso-Kortekaas, Katia; López, Emilia Román

doi:10.1007/s12371-021-00543-1

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“…Undoubtedly, the inland traditional salt flats are a cultural heritage that must be preserved. In fact, due to their rarity and vulnerability, half of the current salt pans in Spain are included in the Natura 2000 network [51]. The tool shown here might be helpful in this challenge.…”

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Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible

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Mediterranean temporary ponds are a priority habitat according to the Natura 2000 network of the European Union, and complete inventories of these ecosystems are therefore needed. Their small size, short hydroperiod, or severe disturbance make these ponds undetectable by most remote sensing systems. Here we show, for the first time, that the distributed hydrologic model IBER+ detects ephemeral and even extinct wetlands by fully exploiting the available digital elevation model and resolving many microtopographic features at drainage basin scales of about 1000 km2. This paper aims to implement a methodology for siting flood-prone areas that can potentially host a temporary wetland, validating the results with historical orthophotos and existing wetlands inventories. Our model succeeds in dryland endorheic catchments of the Upper Guadalquivir Basin: it has detected 89% of the previously catalogued wetlands and found four new unknown wetlands. In addition, we have found that 24% of the detected wetlands have disappeared because of global change. Subsequently, environmental managers could use the proposed methodology to locate wetlands quickly and cheaply. Finding wetlands would help monitor their conservation and restore them if needed.

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Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible

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“…Apart from the analysis of specific landscape characteristics and cultural values of inland Salinas in Spain, it seemed necessary to invite local players to design and use new products as a means to safeguard their sustainability and identity [25]. In the Pantelleria National Park, Sicily, cooperation between institutions and the local community is used for the development and successful management of interweaving nature and culture [26].…”

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Biodiversity as an Outstanding Universal Value for Integrated Management of Natural and Cultural Heritage

Keramitsoglou,

Koudoumakis,

Akrivopoulou

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UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre has set ten criteria for assessing Outstanding Universal Values (OUVs) for the inscription of properties on the World Heritage List. Recognising the growing challenge for heritage conservation and the need for professionals to work within systemic, holistic, and integrated frameworks in managing cultural heritage and using biodiversity as an OUV, this paper investigates how the intangible and tangible cultural and natural heritage of the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece is interconnected over the course of centuries. We review the evolution of the existing legislative framework to protect archaeological treasures and local flora and fauna and document the richness of ongoing ecological and biological processes in the region for strengthening the arguments for an integrated protection and management system. Locating the archaeological sites and monuments in protected natural zones and areas of exceptional beauty with the use of the open code QGIS programme and focusing on their description and analysis, the present research recommends their interlinked management under the leadership of a Joint Destination Management Organisation.

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Landscape character: a knowledge mapping analysis using CiteSpace

Zhuang

Hussein

Ariffin

et al. 2022

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Inland Salinas in Spain: Classification, Characterisation, and Reflections on Unique Cultural Landscapes and Geoheritage

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible

Technological Advances to Rescue Temporary and Ephemeral Wetlands: Reducing Their Vulnerability, Making Them Visible

Biodiversity as an Outstanding Universal Value for Integrated Management of Natural and Cultural Heritage

Landscape character: a knowledge mapping analysis using CiteSpace

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