The Making of a Place Columnar Basalt Geopark and Earth Heritage Conservation in Penghu

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The Making of a PlaceColumnar Basalt Geopark
and Earth Heritage Conservationin Peng-hu

• Hung-Fei Lei
• Shin Wang
• Ling-Yuh Sheu

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Two Objectives

• Evaluating the aesthetic qualities of the
  landscape in Peng-hu
• Linking landscape evaluation with designation and
  management in Penghu

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30 minutes
1 hour
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Photographer Shin Wang
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Photographer Jun-Chuang Lin
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Photographer Shin Wang
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Photographer Shin Wang
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After defeated in 1659, Jeng the Great Wood with
his navy from Kinmen
Ever before 17th the pirates bases
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Annual climatic conditions (1980-1990 source
Peng-hu county)
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Depends on the size of the farm
5 6 metre
lt 1 metre
1.62.5 metre
Vegetable House
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Peng-hu national scenic area
The trend of population and industries in
Peng-hu (source Peng-hu county)
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The population of domesticated animals in
Peng-hu (source Peng-hu county)
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Peng-hu national scenic area
modernisation
Modernisation of fishery industry and
over-fishing in Peng-hu (source Peng-hu county)
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What is landscape aesthetics?

• The rhythm of form (patterns)

• The metaphor of form (meaningful form)

• Association of meaningful forms

• Symbols and emotions

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Methodology (step 1 identifying)
Types of landscapes that
can be identified in the given geographical area
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Methodology (step 2 evaluating)

• Unity
• Vividiness
• Diversity
• Scarcity
• Integrity

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unity

• A landscape having all its elements and
  components associated well to denote a clear
  metaphor and/or an abundant culture meaning is
  called a high unity landscape.
• The higher the unity is, the clearer the
  landscape identity is.
• Normally if a landscape has a clear boundary with
  all components linked systematically with each
  other and with a clear pattern toward our senses,
  then it has a high unity.

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Photographer Jun-Chuang Lin
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vividness

• Vividness of a landscape is high, when the
  landscape is in action.
• Landscape with high relief and/or on the
  transitional zone of different domains often
  shows dramatic geological and/or ecological
  processes in time and space.

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Photographer Shin Wang
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diversity

• Diversity is a term borrowed from ecology.
• When the diversity of landscape is high, it often
  implies a high diversity in wildlife species, but
  not always the case.
• Natural history is the key factor in shaping the
  diversity.

scarcity

• For the landscape which is scarce on the earth
  and has significant meaning for the culture
  and/or the nature, its scarcity is high.

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integrity

• A beautiful landscape may be a complete
  demonstration of all complex natural and/or
  cultural interactions that we can find out in a
  given region. It, then, has relative high
  integrity and can be used as a showcase of the
  region.
• For constructing a geopark, such an aesthetic
  quality is a key factor for searching a place of
  litter disturbance with the consideration of the
  balance between economic development and
  environmental conservation. It is particularly
  important for an area, such as Penghu, where
  population and land use intensity are relatively
  high.
• A landscape of high integrity always means that
  the landscape preserves relative good record of
  local history of the nature and the culture.

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Ji-bei-yu
Hsiao-men-yu
main island zone
north islands zone
Kuei-be-shan
Inner sea zone
Tong-pan-yu
Wang-an
south islands zone
Ci-mei
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What is hidden behind?

• Environmental knowledge
• Social consciousness
• Politic-economical controls

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Geopark and management

• A designation for research and education
• A designation for protection
• A designation for avoiding conflicts
• A designation for getting the new meaning of the
  landscape
• But, as a tool, geopark is not everything

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Environmentsunder the politic-economic controls

• A construction of meaning
• A potential markets
• A continuous management
• A continuous dialogue with the environment around
• A reconstruction of administration culture and
  democracy

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conclusion

• Incomplete methodology

• Toward a politic-economy of environmental
  management

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