Abstract
Cultural heritage is a very important element affecting the sustainable development. To analyze the various forms of spatial management inscribed into sustainable development, information on the location of objects and their concentration at specific areas is necessary. The main goal of the article was to show the possibility of using various GIS tools in modeling the distribution of historical objects. For spatial analysis, it is optimal to use the point location of objects. Often, however, it is extremely difficult, laborious, expensive, and sometimes impossible to obtain. Thus, various map content generalizations were analyzed in the article; the main goal was to find the level for which the data with an acceptable loss of accuracy can be generalized. Such analyses can be extremely useful in sustainable heritage management. Article also shows how cultural heritage fits into the sustainable heritage management. The research included non-movable monuments in Poland. The obtained results showed the universality of this type of research both in the thematic sense (can be used for various types of objects) and spatial sense (can be performed locally, at the country level, or even at the continental level).
Highlights
Sustainable development is nowadays one of the main components used in spatial development [1,2,3]
The definition of sustainable development can be found in Polish legislation—it is defined in the Environmental Protection Act [4] as the socio-economic development integrating political, economic, and social actions, balanced with environmental protection and a permanence of basic natural processes, in order to ensure the possibility of satisfying the basic needs of communities or individual citizens in both the present and future generations
The aim of this research was to find the optimal size of the hexagonal grid, to the level of which the data can be generalized, without a significant decrease in the reliability of spatial modeling for various sustainable heritage management needs
Summary
Sustainable development is nowadays one of the main components used in spatial development [1,2,3]. According to Pearce and Turner [6], sustainable development is associated with maximizing the benefits of economic development, in connection with protecting the quality and usability of natural resources. Such economic development must mean an increase in income per capita, and the comprehensive improvement of other social aspects. As the basis of social life, is considered to be one of the four pillars of sustainable development [7,8,9,10]. Various studies have shown the influence of cultural heritage as an element of sustainable development on spatial planning [18,19], or tourism development [20,21,22]
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