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Expanding the Geoconservation Toolbox: Integrated Hazard Management at Dynamic Geoheritage Sites

Expanding the Geoconservation Toolbox: Integrated Hazard Management at Dynamic Geoheritage Sites This article discusses the developing field to make use of visually impressive and artistic digital tools to document geoheritage sites. Whilst applauding the contribution these techniques make to records of heritage, such techniques should not replace physical access and conservation. To improve conservation of natural sites, technology must support rather than substitute geoconservation measures. As a tourism “honeypot”, the Giant's Causeway is Northern Ireland's most significant heritage resource, representing a dynamic and contested space, around and within which managers and stakeholders capitalise on the world class values. This article reports on a “digital documentation” approach which aims to support day-to-day management decisions, by provision of online hazard management tools. Digital documentation involves collecting a range of heritage data within a single geographical information system. Slope failure and visitor data are collected using global positioning system technology, and the site is scanned using terrestrial light detection and ranging to produce a 3D model. This provides managers and stakeholders with integrated hazard assessment tools, necessary to make informed decisions. The approach represents a shift from re-active to pro-active management and promotes expansion of the geoconservation toolbox through appropriate application of digital technologies. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Geoheritage Springer Journals

Expanding the Geoconservation Toolbox: Integrated Hazard Management at Dynamic Geoheritage Sites

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by The European Association for Conservation of the Geological Heritage
Subject
Earth Sciences; Historical Geology; Physical Geography; Biogeosciences; Paleontology; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Mineralogy
ISSN
1867-2477
eISSN
1867-2485
DOI
10.1007/s12371-013-0082-8
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Abstract

This article discusses the developing field to make use of visually impressive and artistic digital tools to document geoheritage sites. Whilst applauding the contribution these techniques make to records of heritage, such techniques should not replace physical access and conservation. To improve conservation of natural sites, technology must support rather than substitute geoconservation measures. As a tourism “honeypot”, the Giant's Causeway is Northern Ireland's most significant heritage resource, representing a dynamic and contested space, around and within which managers and stakeholders capitalise on the world class values. This article reports on a “digital documentation” approach which aims to support day-to-day management decisions, by provision of online hazard management tools. Digital documentation involves collecting a range of heritage data within a single geographical information system. Slope failure and visitor data are collected using global positioning system technology, and the site is scanned using terrestrial light detection and ranging to produce a 3D model. This provides managers and stakeholders with integrated hazard assessment tools, necessary to make informed decisions. The approach represents a shift from re-active to pro-active management and promotes expansion of the geoconservation toolbox through appropriate application of digital technologies.

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Geoheritage – Springer Journals

Published: Apr 13, 2013

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