Post-Mining Objects as Geotourist Attractions: Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland)

Gaidzik, Krzysztof; Chmielewska, Marta

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“…A good example is the Nova Karolina housing development in Ostrava with apartment buildings, a shopping centre and office spaces that serve residents, or Dolni Vitkowice with a steel mill turned into a tourist facility (Cynk, 2022). In Poland, Siesia City Centre, which is a multi-functional shopping and entertainment centre on the site of the Gottwald Coal Mine in Katowice (Gaidzik, Chmielewska, 2020), serves as an example of the revitalization of coal mine sites. In turn, a cultural, recreational and sports zone with exhibition halls, a museum and walking areas was created on the site of the Katowice Coal Mine (Badura, 2021).…”

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The main processes responsible for landscape transformation in post-industrial urban areas in Central Europe

Pukowiec-Kurda

2023

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In recent years, the dynamic of spatial change has been increasing, influenced by processes linked to the transformation of traditional industrial regions into metropolitan areas. This is related to changes in function and administrative status, but above all to spatial changes. Examples of cities experiencing dynamic landscape changes from coal mining cities to modern metropolises can be found in the former coal basins of Central Europe – the Upper Silesian Metropolis in Poland and the Ostrava-Karviná Region in the Czechia. This study analysed the transformation of the landscape on the basis of land cover data from the years 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2018. The index of landscape change and the index of change of individual cover types were calculated, and on the basis of these indices the main processes responsible for the transformation of the landscape were determined. In the two study areas, similar changes in the landscape are taking place but at different rates. The main processes changing the landscape are suburbanization, reindustrialization and agricultural land abandonment. In space, they are manifested in an increase in the areas of residential, commercial and service development, the densification of the road network, and an increase in land allocated for new industrial plants. At the same time, the acreage of agricultural land (mainly arable fields, orchards and plantations but also open landscapes) is decreasing.

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The main processes responsible for landscape transformation in post-industrial urban areas in Central Europe

Pukowiec-Kurda

2023

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“…There are, e.g., examples in the literature of ecological reclamation of abandoned post-mining areas and their transformation into recreational areas (e.g. in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin in Poland - Gaidzik and Chmielewska, 2020), natural areas (e.g., in the German-Polish UNESCO Global Geopark Muskau Arch https://www.muskau-arch.eu/ -Koźma, 2011) geoeducational areas (e.g. Koźma, 2011; in the Sadowa Góra quarry area in southern Poland https://www.jaworzno.pl/osrodekedukacji-ekologiczno-geologicznej-geosfera/ - Chećko et al, 2022) and geotourism (e.g.…”

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The Geoheritage Potential of the South-East Pałuki (Western Poland) to Promote Geotourism

GÓRSKA-ZABIELSKA,

BŁASZCZYK,

NOWAK

2024

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The aim of the work is to examine the possibilities of developing geotourism in the context of existing, but not yet recognised, geoheritage in the north-eastern Wielkopolska, western Poland. Pałuki is characterised by exceptional geodiversity, which has enormous potential for diversifying the present tourist offer. The valorisation method of selected 12 geosites was used, taking into account geomorphological, additional and utility categories. The results of the analytical part made it possible to identify the most valuable and geotouristically attractive geosites. They form two original geotourism trails under the common name of "Geodiversified Pałuki". In order to increase the possibilities of developing local geotourism, two proposals for thematic geotourism trail focusing on the most interesting, and highly rated, geosites in the research area are presented.

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Geotourism—A Global Overview

Dowling

2023

Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism

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Post-Mining Objects as Geotourist Attractions: Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland)

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The main processes responsible for landscape transformation in post-industrial urban areas in Central Europe

The main processes responsible for landscape transformation in post-industrial urban areas in Central Europe

The Geoheritage Potential of the South-East Pałuki (Western Poland) to Promote Geotourism

Geotourism—A Global Overview

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