Linking geological heritage and geoethics with a particular emphasis on palaeontological heritage: the new concept of ‘palaeontoethics’Geoheritage - Tập 13 - Trang 1-16 - 2021
Daniel DeMiguel, José Brilha, Laia Alegret, Ignacio Arenillas, José A. Arz, Vicente Gilabert, Flavia Strani, Alberto Valenciano, Enrique Villas, Beatriz Azanza
Geoconservation and geoethics are two emergent domains in geosciences. During the last decade, both topics have increasingly gained the attention of geoscientists and the society, but the main geoethical dilemmas related to the conservation and management of geoheritage are not clearly identified yet. This work aims at providing an overview on the meaning and scope of geoethics and how it intersec...... hiện toàn bộ
Geoheritage in Thermal Springs of Puruándiro, Michoacán, MéxicoGeoheritage - Tập 13 - Trang 1-25 - 2021
Mariana Patricia Jácome Paz, Víctor Manuel Gómez Piña, Rosa María Prol Ledesma, Irving González Romo, Aurora Estrada Murillo, Mario Alberto Hernández Hernández, Alejandra González Alfaro, Mayela Gómez Torres
Both worldwide and in Mexico, multiple regions with thermal springs exist and have played an integral role in culture and daily life in these civilizations since pre-Hispanic up to modern times. Thermal springs have become places of high cultural importance, and most of the times have been used for balneology or as baths of local people. Unfortunately, in Mexico a lack of knowledge about the possi...... hiện toàn bộ
Assessing Public Preferences of Landscape and Landscape Attributes: a Case Study of the Proposed Appalachian Geopark Project in West Virginia, USAGeoheritage - Tập 15 - Trang 1-20 - 2023
Ganga Nakarmi, Michael P. Strager, Charles Yuill, Jasmine C. Moreira, Robert C. Burns, Peter Butler
Photographs have been utilized as substitutes for on-site scenes in the assessment and evaluation of landscape’s visual quality, perspective, and preference. Visual quality, perception, and preference are assessed through human eyes and their judgment. However, the human judgement is often generally categorized as expert vs. citizen. Literature searches show that the expert-based assessment domina...... hiện toàn bộ
Assessment of Urban Geotourism Resources: An Example of Two Geocultural Sites in Brno, Czech RepublicGeoheritage - Tập 12 - Trang 1-12 - 2020
Lucie Kubalíková, Karel Kirchner, František Kuda, Aleš Bajer
Geodiversity and geoheritage within urban areas have some specific characteristics in comparison to those in natural and rural areas. They influence and are influenced by urban development, they are strongly modified by human activities and they are usually closely related to the culture, architecture and history (cultural heritage). Geoheritage (especially geosites or geoheritage ex situ) is the ...... hiện toàn bộ
Newly Emerging Geosites in the Polish Western Outer Carpathians as an Asset for Geoeducation and GeotourismGeoheritage - Tập 11 - Trang 1247-1256 - 2019
Wiktor Głowacki
This study focuses on Flysch Carpathian river valleys recently reshaped by the fluvial erosion. Geological structures of these mountains are rather monotonous. However, numerous floods that occurred in recent decades and the abrasion of banks of water reservoirs have made many parts of valleys particularly interesting not only for geologists but also for tourists and for local people as a pleasant...... hiện toàn bộ
Evaluation of Geological Heritage of Geosites for a Potential Geopark in Binh Thuan–Ninh Thuan Coastal Zone, VietnamGeoheritage - - 2019
Dương Nguyễn-Thùy, Phuong H. Ta, Hướng Nguyễn-Văn, Huy Van Dinh, Bao Van Dang, Nhon Hoai Dang, Huong Thi Thu, Anh-Tuan Nguyen, Thanh Duc Tran, Vuong Van Bui, Anh Ngọc Nguyễn, Thuy Thi Hoang
Ordovician Ichnofossils and Popular Architecture in Monsagro (Salamanca, Spain): Ethnopaleontology in the Service of Rural DevelopmentGeoheritage - Tập 12 - Trang 1-17 - 2020
Guillermo Simón-Porcar, Antonio Martínez-Graña, José L. Simón, José Á. González-Delgado, Paulo Legoinha
The municipality of Monsagro, a mountain location in Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia Natural Park (Salamanca, Spain), has recently developed two paleontological outreach projects: a Fossil Footprints Geo-route within the urban area and a modern Centre for the Interpretation of Ancient Seas. They are based on the abundance and popular interest of Cruziana and other ichnofossils, which have been adde...... hiện toàn bộ