How diverse should be geodiversity? Reply to Knight "Evaluating geological heritage" (Proc. Geol. Assoc. (2011))

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 511-513

  Ruban, Dmitry A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Geodiversity; Geological heritage; Landscape; Tourism

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ESTHETICS; GEODIVERSITY; HERITAGE TOURISM; PERCEPTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958768149     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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