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How Can Accountants Enhance (or Save) Natural and Cultural Capital Valuation? Engaging Academics: A Collaboration with CPA Canada and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO*

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 21-46, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Accountants should engage more with natural and cultural capital accounting to make tools more accessible and to ensure critical information is provided to decision‐makers. While ecological economists have continued to innovate and design tools, corporate‐level accounting has seemingly lagged behind.
S. Leanne Keddie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research progress and prospects of popular science tourism in geoparks [PDF]

open access: yesZiyuan Kexue
Popular science tourism in geoparks plays an important role in enhancing public scientific literacy and awareness of ecological conservation. Based on 386 relevant publications from January 1999 to November 2024 at home and abroad, this study ...
ZHU Zehui, LIU Jiaming, ZHU He, ZHANG Shuying, GAO Caixia, ZHENG Chenrouyu
doaj   +1 more source

Modern pollen rain of an upland area: implications of pollen dispersal for interpreting palaeoenvironmental records

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
A long‐term perspective on landscape evolution is critical for understanding past land‐use activity, land cover–climate feedbacks and, notably, for establishing a factual basis for conservation. Fossil pollen analysis provides a means to achieve this. Biases pertaining to pollen productivity, pollination processes and basin size, however, mean there is
Helen Essell, Gill Plunkett
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 6, Page 8018-8057, October 2026.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geoparks: from conception to the teaching of geosciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The society of the 21st century is permeated by advances and diffusion of technologies that generate a way of life highly de-pendent on natural resources.
Fornaro, Alexandre   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Lamprophyre sites of Wajrakarur Kimberlite Field, Southern India: Potential candidates for developing as geoparks

open access: yesInternational Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2023
This article presents field description of lamprophyres of the Wajrakarur Kimberlite Field (WKF) emphasising their geoscientific potential to develop and popularize them as geoparks.
Pothuri Ramesh Chandra Phani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Geodiversity—Biodiversity Relationships in Freshwaters for Environmental Conservation: A Global Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesAquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Geodiversity refers to the heterogeneity of abiotic characteristics in nature, and in freshwater ecosystems, it mostly mirrors the diversity of hydro‐geomorphological features in inland waters. Although several scholars have highlighted that geodiversity contributes to habitat formation and influences biodiversity and ecological processes, it ...
Ioanna Xynogala   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geochemistry of low‐temperature dolomite formation in coastal and continental saline to sabkha‐like environments

open access: yesThe Depositional Record, Volume 12, Issue 4, September 2026.
This study compares primary dolomite precipitation in modern and ancient environments, varying from coastal to transitional to continental saline environments. The microbially mediated dolomites are characterised by high Sr concentrations. Here, various geochemical proxies are studied and compared to previous findings.
Carlette N. Blok   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation Nationaler GeoParks – Zur Attraktivität von Geoparks und ihrer Bedeutung für den Geotourismus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt werden weltweit jährlich Geoparks geplant und eingerichtet. Geoparks besitzen das Potential das Besondere einer Region – die Landschaft und die damit verbundene kulturelle Geschichte – für den Tourismus nachhaltig zu ...
Aufenanger, Julian
core   +1 more source

Assessment of the tourist attractiveness of global geoparks in Europe

open access: yesВісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Серія Геологія, 2022
The article provides an inventory of geoparks from the list of the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network. It is noted that geoparks as important tourist attractions have been the subject of scientific attention of many authors, but the data presented in these ...
M. Lushchyk   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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