Vernacular Landscapes

This study examines the effect of the diversity of the landscape on the geomorphological tourism industry in the Jordanian Badia and explores the contribution of geomorphological features in the Jordanian Badia to the Jordanian tourism sector. The study relies on combining theory and practice in addition to combining more than one approach such as the symbolic-physical approach, the organizational approach, and the perceptualconceptual approach which focus on the possibility of developing geomorphological tourism based on the system's inputs and outputs. The study found the importance of diagnosing a landscape in the Jordanian Badia based on the analysis of the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) derived from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and Geographic Information System (GIS).The results of the analysis showed the presence of great terrestrial diversity within the study area. The results also divided the nature of the areal spread of geomorphological phenomena in the Jordanian desert in terms of morphological structure into four distinct regions in terms of their biological content and the topography of the surrounding areas, which led to the diversity of land cover patterns and their uses. The study contributes theoretically to extracting geomorphological characteristics to identify all geomorphological features in the study area, and practically to help decision-makers exploit those geomorphological characteristics in order to increase the number of tourists, prolong their stay, and achieve their goals

Archaeology · Digital elevation model · Environmental resource management · Geography · Physical geography · Remote sensing · Shuttle Radar Topography Mission · Sociology · Tourism · Vernacular · Archaeological Research and Protection · Environmental Science · Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation