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Optimal Management of Karst Sites with Cave Fauna Protection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Raymond Tercafs
Raymond Tercafs
Affiliation:
Senior Research Associate of the National Fund for Scientific Research, Conseil Scientifique des Sites, Université de Liège, Bâtiment B 11, Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liège, Belgium.
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An optimal management of large Karst sites, with emphasis on the conservation of cave fauna while allowing recreational use, is proposed. A detailed study of the relative biological value of each section in a reference cave, the east Belgian ‘Grottes de Han’ Cave, was made in comparison with 40 others in Belgium.

Computer analysis provided a selection of optimal routes through the Cave. Each different route reflects the synthetic coefficients derived to weight biological and aesthetic values. This method of optimal cave resource control, developed to prevent deterioration in underground environments, can also be applied to other natural sites visited by humans.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Summer 1988 , pp. 149 - 158
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1988

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