The legal protection of limestone pavements in Great Britain

Goldie, H. S.

doi:10.1007/bf00775300

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“…The way how human activities influences ecological environment varies in different karst areas, such as roads construction for mining is the main path of how local human activities lead to land degradation in Papua New Guinea (James, 1993), whereas in industrial area such as Britain, quarrying is the main path (Goldie, 1993). In southwest China, environment degradation mainly results from unsustainable land use including cultivating on steep slopes, firewood collection, and overgrazing.…”

Section: Unsustainable Land Usementioning

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Multi‐Scale Anthropogenic Driving Forces of Karst Rocky Desertification in Southwest China

2013

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Karst rocky desertification (KRD) is a type of land degradation especially prominent in southwest China. This article analyzes the anthropogenic driving forces of KRD at two scales: rural locality and its macro socio-economic circumstances. At the rural locality scale, the intensive human pressure on land because of a large and fast growing population and unsustainable land use are identified to be the reason for KRD. However, more radical driving forces lie in the farmers' disadvantages in social-economic circumstances, which compel them to overuse rural land. Hukou system, coastal development strategy, and household responsibility system are verified as three important factors in social-economic circumstances. At last, a two-scale framework is constructed to explain how anthropogenic driving forces lead to KRD in southwest China.

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Section: Unsustainable Land Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Multi‐Scale Anthropogenic Driving Forces of Karst Rocky Desertification in Southwest China

2013

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“…These reproductions usually comprise an assemblage of limestone outcrops that have naturally been shaped into curious forms by surface solution sculpture processes. This itself implies some environmental impact through the removal of these features from their natural location, an issue that has given rise to specific protective regulation in Britain where similar quarrying of nature outcrops, in that case for decorative garden rockeries, has caused very serious detriment to some karst areas (Goldie 1993). Karst hills commonly become sites for temple construction, and the large size of karst caves often allows considerable religious activity within them.…”

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Human Impacts on Geodiversity and Associated Natural Values of Bedrock Hills in the Mekong Delta

Kiernan

2010

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The isolated hills that rise above the plains of the Mekong Delta contribute significantly to geodiversity and are fundamental to the retention of biodiversity and ecosystem services. As the only topographic highpoints on the delta, these hills, together with caves some hills contain, have long formed a natural focus for human attention and activity. They have provided important sites for habitation, spiritual practices, production of timber, agricultural fertilizer, and building stone and cement and have been the arena of multiple episodes of armed conflict. These uses have degraded the natural environmental values but in some cases led to accrual of cultural heritage value that has accentuated recently growing pressures from recreation and commercial tourism. Habitation, religious use, and tourism have caused significant but localized soil loss, while cave systems have been damaged by trampling, hydrological changes, removal and mixing of sediments, and damage to speleothems. Impacts caused by armed conflict have been much more widespread and include damage to rock surfaces, soils, and caves by deployment of explosive and other ordnance and the establishment of infrastructure in caves including weapons caches, defensive structure, and cave hospitals. Quarrying for building materials has resulted in very pronounced landform modification with recent expansion of cement manufacture entailing the removal of entire hills. The very limited extent of these upland environments on the Mekong delta and the particular importance of some values at stake greatly intensify the significance of human impacts on both their geoheritage and the other natural values that are dependent upon it.

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“…These terrains are highly susceptible to anthropogenic disturbance. Quarrying, altering surficial drainage patterns, waste disposal, vegetation removal, and urban development each negatively impact surface karst (Crawford, 1984;Ford and Williams, 1989;Goldie, 1993;Gunn and Bailey, 1993;Keith et al, 1997;Quinlan and Ewers, 1985;Sinclair et al, 1985;Tihansky, 1999;White et al, 1984). Subsurface karst features, such as caves and aquifers, are also easily impacted by human activity occurring both above and below the ground surface.…”

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Interregional comparison of karst disturbance: West-central Florida and southeast Italy

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Parise

2009

Journal of Environmental Management

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The legal protection of limestone pavements in Great Britain

Cited by 15 publications

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Multi‐Scale Anthropogenic Driving Forces of Karst Rocky Desertification in Southwest China

Multi‐Scale Anthropogenic Driving Forces of Karst Rocky Desertification in Southwest China

Human Impacts on Geodiversity and Associated Natural Values of Bedrock Hills in the Mekong Delta

Interregional comparison of karst disturbance: West-central Florida and southeast Italy

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