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Paleontological Heritage and its Conservation in the UNESCO European Geoparks. [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 Together, places of scientific, historical or cultural significance within a region and the artefacts uncovered therefrom and displayed in museums and collections make up the total heritage of the region in question. Seemingly lifeless places and objects
Dan Grigorescu
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Geoconservation, History of [PDF]
, 2014 [Excerto] The word "geoconservation" was probably used for the first time in Tasmania (Australia) in the beginning of the 1990s (Sharples 1993). Sharples, a pioneer of Australian geoconservation, reports that during the period of 1993-1994, the Forestry Commission of Tasmania prepared several reports with preliminary inventories of landforms in the ...
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Geoconservation, Concept of [PDF]
, 2014 [Excerto] The exceptional scientific value of certain geodiversity elements justifies the need to implement proper measures in order to assure their conservation. Obviously, not all geodiversity elements should be envisaged for conservation. Most elements have no particular value, and a vast variety of geological resources are exploited everyday to ...
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Geoconservation Research, 2023 In a recent review article, Lima & Meneses (2023, Geoconservation Research, 6 (1): 114–127) reported on the Azores Geopark, introducing a new geosite for São Miguel Island. We here express our concerns regarding the data presented in this review article.
Sérgio P. Ávila +7 more
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Perception of the Geological-Mining Heritage to Promote Geotourism in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Geosciences, 2022 Biodiversity is an essential component of nature, relegating the aspects of geodiversity, which provides geological and landscape variety to a territory.
Gricelda Herrera-Franco +6 more
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Geodiversity and Its Implication for Geoconservation of the Youngest Eruptive Sites of Western Samoa
Proceedings, 2022 The last volcanic eruption in Western Samoa, which occurred between 1905 and 1911, produced a complex scoria and lava spatter cone and an extensive lava field that destroyed Sale’aula village, near the Pacific coast.
Károly Németh
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Editorial form the Editor-in-Chief
Journal of the Geological Survey of Brazil, 2021 Initiatives to protect the Earth system in several countries are known since the seventeenth century, mostly dealing with the preservation of fossils, caves, and other geomorphological features.
Evandro Klein
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Approaching geodiversity and geoconservation in Argentina
International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2022 The geodiversity and geoconservation status in Argentina is herein presented considering the geodidactic potential and tourism activity as geosystem services. The Geological Interest Sites (GIS) identified by the geological and mining national survey, the Natural Protected Areas (NPA) supported by the national park administration and the World Heritage
Andrea Coronato, Soledad Schwarz
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Geoheritage and geoconservation
, 2007 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Brocx, Margaret, Semeniuk, V
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The New Space Race Era: The Exogeoheritage Challenge and Its Conservation
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract The escalating pace of space exploration has ushered in a new era reminiscent of the space race of the 1960s. However, the discourse on exogeoconservation—the protection of geological heritage—now demands a prominent place in decision‐making processes.
B. De Toffoli
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