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Landscape is part of the natural heritage and it has scenic, esthetic and economic values, both from the point of view of tourism and recreation, as well as in terms of the social access to the contemplation and use of such heritage. Scenic values are in fact, natural resources, and as such, high scenic values are scarce, and thus, valuable. In the case of scenic values, it is necessary to apply techniques of quantitative evaluation of such resources, which are closely related to the geomorphological characteristics of the studied region, to use these results in decision-making and priority ranking processes. This paper presents various techniques of quantitative evaluation which may be applied at the local and regional level. A case study in Tierra del Fuego is herein described.
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The author is deeply grateful to the organizers of the Symposium at UNESP-Ourinhos for their invitation to be part of it. Likewise, I am willing to use this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to Profs. Marie Morisawa (deceased) and Donald R. Coates, who were my advisors during a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, State University of New York at Binghamton, in 1974–1975, because they introduced me to the study of Environmental and Quantitative Geomorphology. Finally, I thank MarÃa Laura Borla, M.Sc. (CADIC, Ushuaia) for allowing me to use unpublished data from her Master’s Thesis which has largely enriched this paper, and also to Mariano J. Rabassa, Ph.D. (Universidad Católica Argentina , Buenos Aires), for the discussion of some of the ideas exposed in this work.
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Rabassa, J. (2018). Natural Heritage: Quantitative Evaluation of Landscape Scenic Values. In: Lopes da Cunha, F., dos Santos, M., Rabassa, J. (eds) Latin American Heritage. The Latin American Studies Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58448-5_8
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