Natural heritage as a source of ecosystem services for recreation and tourism in Bulgaria

Nikolova, Mariyana; Nedkov, Stoyan; Borisova, Bilyana; Zhiyanski, Miglena; Dimitrov, Stelian

doi:10.3897/jbgs.e79485

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“…The results on the character of the ES research showed that 64% (80), of the reviewed publications have assessed ES whereas the rest 36% (43) had no ES assessment. Further analyses of the latter group revealed that some of these papers are either editorial papers (five) from special issues containing ES assessment papers (such as Nikolova et al 2021a) The most studied ES group is the regulating (50% overall), followed by provisioning (38% of all papers) and cultural (35% of all papers) ones (Fig. 2A).…”

Section: Ecosystem Services Researchmentioning

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Twenty years of ecosystem services research in Bulgaria: lessons learned and future directions from a geographical perspective

Nedkov,

Stoycheva,

Prodanova

et al. 2024

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The ecosystem services (ES) concept has established itself in recent years as the predominant paradigm for framing environmental research and policy-making. The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 with its task for member countries to map and assess the state of ecosystems and their services has contributed vastly to the development of the ES studies in the European countries. Bulgaria was among the countries that made substantial progress in its implementation and the contribution of the geographers was of vital importance. This paper aims to provide an overview and analysis of the ES research in Bulgaria focusing on the contributions of the geographers and the spatial aspects of the studies. The information on the ES research was performed through a literature review by collecting all available published works that address the main objectives of the study. To systematize and characterize the content of the reviewed papers, a special database with a standard nomenclature was constructed. The findings from the review allowed us to identify both achievements and research gaps in the ES studies conducted by Bulgarian geographers. This enabled us to define the main research priorities of the coming years which can trace the future directions of ES research in the country. They include the development of the spatial aspects in the methodological frameworks for mapping and assessment of ES, better use of GIS-based tools for mapping ES alongside models’ integration, and improvement of the publication's quality and increase of the papers published in highly rated indexed journals.

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Section: Ecosystem Services Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty years of ecosystem services research in Bulgaria: lessons learned and future directions from a geographical perspective

Nedkov,

Stoycheva,

Prodanova

et al. 2024

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Section: Ecosystem Services Researchmentioning

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Supplementary material 1 from: Nedkov S, Stoycheva V, Prodanova H, Ananiev I, Yordanov Y (2024) Twenty years of ecosystem services research in Bulgaria: lessons learned and future directions from a geographical perspective. BioRisk 22: 33-52. https://doi.org/10.3897/biorisk.22.125194

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Prodanova

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“…In addition, based on similar studies on the identification and conservation of OUV of WNHSs, scholars selected outstanding biodiversity value as objects, identified and extracted their carriers and characteristics, and proposed sustainable development measures in parallel with conservation and tourism [65][66][67][68][69]. Only a few scholars clarified the carriers of aesthetic value and their characteristics [1,5,6] or the indicators of aesthetic value protection [70] or proposed macro-protection and technical management measures based on a textual description of aesthetic value in the inscription, such as fixed-point monitoring of the list of aesthetic landscape heritage [71][72][73][74] and the adoption of zoning protection strategies [75][76][77][78].…”

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Conservation and Sustainable Tourism Development of the Natural World Heritage Site Based on Aesthetic Value Identification: A Case Study of the Libo Karst

Xiong

Zhang

Guang-yu

et al. 2023

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The conservation and sustainable tourism development of natural World Heritage has been one of the most challenging topics worldwide. One topic based on the identification of sites’ outstanding universal value is gradually forming a trend. Aesthetic value as a criteria for WH is an important driving force for the tourism development of most natural World Heritage sites and plays a vital role in the sustainable tourism development of heritage sites. However, due to the subjective consciousness involved in the assessment of aesthetic value, it is difficult to quantify. This means that the content of the protection of the aesthetic value of heritage sites is too general, and the exhibition of aesthetic value is inadequate, posing a threat to the sustainable development of heritage sites. This study selected the Libo Karst Heritage Site as the research area, identified and extracted the carriers and characteristics of the aesthetic value of the Karst heritage site through the combination of online text big data, landscape beauty evaluation, and ArcGIS spatial analysis, and analyzed the content and objectives of aesthetic value protection, clarified the scope of the conversation and tourism exhibits, and, finally, puts forward a conservation and sustainable tourism development strategy based on aesthetic value identification. This study was carried out using interdisciplinary technologies and methods, which provide a valuable reference for the construction of a quantitative evaluation system for the aesthetic value of natural World Heritage sites and the protection of outstanding universal value. This study contributes to filling the research gap regarding the comprehensive evaluation of the aesthetic value and protection and tourism development based on the outstanding aesthetic value identification of natural World Heritage sites. The strategy of cooperation between protection and sustainable tourism development based on prominent universal value recognition can be applied to other forms of conservation and development in other World Heritage sites with similar problems.

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Natural heritage as a source of ecosystem services for recreation and tourism in Bulgaria

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Twenty years of ecosystem services research in Bulgaria: lessons learned and future directions from a geographical perspective

Twenty years of ecosystem services research in Bulgaria: lessons learned and future directions from a geographical perspective

Supplementary material 1 from: Nedkov S, Stoycheva V, Prodanova H, Ananiev I, Yordanov Y (2024) Twenty years of ecosystem services research in Bulgaria: lessons learned and future directions from a geographical perspective. BioRisk 22: 33-52. https://doi.org/10.3897/biorisk.22.125194

Conservation and Sustainable Tourism Development of the Natural World Heritage Site Based on Aesthetic Value Identification: A Case Study of the Libo Karst

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