Current Trends and Future Directions for Geoheritage Assessment Methodology in Morocco
Geoconservation ResearchInventorying and assessing geoheritage is a prerequisite for developing measures to preserve unique geological and geomorphological sites. Several researchers have developed methods for assessing and determining the value of geological and ...
Mustapha El Hamidy +2 more
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El Geoparc Mundial de la UNESCO "Comarca Minera, Hidalgo": Un resultat de la cooperació científica entre Mèxic i Catalunya [PDF]
, 2017 La Comarca Minera de l'Estat d'Hidalgo, a la zona centreoriental de Mèxic, va rebre la designació de Geoparc Mundial de la UNESCO el 5 de maig de 2017. Aquest reconeixement va culminar un projecte transdisciplinari de tres anys, el qual va implicar una ...
Canet i Miquel, Carles +1 more
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Analysing Push and Pull Motives for Volcano Tourism at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines [PDF]
, 2017 This paper investigates the motivations of visitors undertaking a volcano tour at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. The study identifies push and pull motives for visiting a non-erupting active volcano; tests the influence of age, gender and prior ...
Aquino, R, Hyde, K, Schanzel, H
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Geodiversity, Geoheritage and Geoconservation for Society
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 Geology is part of the planet's “natural capital”, the stock of global natural assets. These assets provide many benefits for society, often referred to as “ecosystem services”. However, traditionally these have mainly focused on biotic services and have undervalued the abiotic ones. The latter are known here as “geosystem services” and they all derive
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GéosciencesThe Chiusella Valley (NW Italian Alps) is a key area for both the history of the alpine orogeny and its environmental context. It presents major structural features (including the Traversella neoalpine intrusion and a section of the Insubric line) and ...
Arianna Negri +6 more
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Geoconservation: international advancements and future challenges [PDF]
, 2011 During the last two decades, geoconservation has been gradually entering into the geosciences’ community. Recently, Henriques et al. (2011) presented a theoretical framework justifying geoconservation as an emerging geoscience.
Brilha, J. B.
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Geoheritage of Portugal as the support for nature conservation and land-use planning [PDF]
, 2014 O inventário nacional do património geológico reúne os principais geossítios em Portugal com elevado valor científico e que representam a geodiversidade nacional, permitindo compreender a história e a evolução geológica do nosso território. O inventário,
Brilha, J. B. +1 more
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Sedimentary provenance of siliciclastic rocks from the Lalla Mouchaa Calcschists Formation (Coastal Block, Western Rehamna): Evidence of denudation of ca. 2 Ga basement in the Moroccan Meseta. [PDF]
, 2018 Paleoproterozoic basement rocks (ca. 2Ga) are scarce along the European and North African Paleozoic mountain chains (Fig.1a). In Morocco, ca. 2.2-2Ga granitic rocks (Gasquet et al., 2008; Kouyaté et al., 2013) have been exclusively reported in the ...
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Mapping and analysis of geodiversity indices in the Xingu river basin, Amazonia, Brazil [PDF]
, 2015 First published online: 14 October 2014From the 1990s, geodiversity studies have been widely carried out in order to understand, describe and preserve the natural heritage of the abiotic environment.
Pereira, D. I. +2 more
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