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Alexandros Aristotelis Koupatsiaris and Hara Drinia
The relationship between humans and the environment in the modern world is challenging. UNESCO Global Geoparks are current holistic approaches for protecting and managing geographical areas that emphasise local communities and sustainability. This paper ...
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Charalampos Fassoulas, Emmanouel Nikolakakis and Spiridon Staridas
Digital tools that aid geolocation, geointerpretation and geomodelling are increasingly used in the promotion of geoheritage and geoconservation. UNESCO Global Geoparks (UGGps) are complex regions that require a variety of approaches to advance geoconser...
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Vasilis Golfinopoulos, Penelope Papadopoulou, Eleni Koumoutsou, Nickolas Zouros, Charalampos Fassoulas, Avraam Zelilidis and George Iliopoulos
The assessment of the geosites of Chelmos-Vouraikos UNESCO Global Geopark (UGGp) was carried out based on an established methodology for the evaluation of geoparks? geosites. Such assessments should be used for sustainable development and geoconservation...
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Happy Christin Natalia, Danni Gathot Harbowo, Rinaldi Ikhram
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The global significance of Krakatau Volcanic Complex and Way Kambas National Park is the best potential areas to be developed as part of a world heritage, particularly as UNESCO Global Geopark. Both of these objects are in the Lampung Province, Indonesia...
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Márton Pál and Gáspár Albert
Geodiversity is the variety of natural elements that are excluded from biodiversity, such as: geological, geomorphological, and soil features including their properties, systems, and relationships. Geodiversity assessment measures these features, emphasi...
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Matthew Parkes, Sarah Gatley and Vincent Gallagher
Active or recently active volcanic areas present very visible and easy to understand phenomena for the broad population to appreciate as geological heritage. However, in a geologically stable country such as Ireland, with no volcanism evident for tens of...
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Happy Christin Natalia, Danni Gathot Harbowo, Rinaldi Ikhram
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The global significance of Krakatau Volcanic Complex and Way Kambas National Park is the best potential areas to be developed as part of a world heritage, particularly as UNESCO Global Geopark. Both of these objects are in the Lampung Province, Indonesia...
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Rafael Becerra-Ramírez, Rafael U. Gosálvez, Estela Escobar, Elena González, Mario Serrano-Patón and Darío Guevara
The Campo de Calatrava Volcanic Region is located in Central Spain (Ciudad Real province, Castilla-La Mancha) where some eruptions of different intensity and spatial location took place throughout a period of more than 8 million years. As a result, more ...
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Heidi Elisabeth Megerle
Geotourism has become more popular in recent decades. Volcanism is an essential part of geoheritage and attracts a high number of visitors. In contrast to active volcanism, Tertiary volcanism is often not identified as such by a lay audience and is under...
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José-Manuel Sánchez-Martín, Juan-Ignacio Rengifo-Gallego and Luz-María Martín-Delgado
Geological heritage has become a tourist resource with huge potential in certain areas, which has given rise to a tourism category known as geotourism which has entered the generic framework of rural tourism. The main elements around which geotourism rev...
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Maria Carmela Dichicco, Salvatore Laurita, Rosa Sinisi, Raimondo Battiloro and Giovanna Rizzo
Worldwide studies have been done about the toxicity and carcinogenicity of asbestos minerals occurring in ophiolitic rocks. Inhalation of asbestos due to environmental exposure could cause malignant mesothelioma and lung cancers. In particular, the ophio...
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Elena Liberatoscioli, Giancarlo Boscaino, Silvano Agostini, Adele Garzarella and Etta Patacca Scandone
Majella National Park is located in the central Apennines (Italy), in a vast mountainous area of about 740 km2. Owing to the complex geological history of the Majella Massif and surrounding areas, it features many different landforms. Woodlands rich in w...
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Ettore Valente, Annarita Casaburi, Michele Finizio, Lorenzo Papaleo, Alessia Sorrentino and Nicoletta Santangelo
The interest of the scientific community about geotourism is abruptly increasing, as well as that on geoparks. According to UNESCO, geoparks should define management policies addressed to increasing the awareness of local people and tourists about Earth?...
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Noor Syarafina Mohd Fauzi,Alamah Misni,Siti Mazwin Kamaruddin,Puziah Ahmad
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Geopark was a widely known concept for the global theme for promoting the tourism industry. It?s protecting the world heritage and improving the socioeconomic development of the local community. Currently, Geopark area was not excluded from the impact of...
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Nikolaos Vlachopoulos and Panagiotis Voudouris
Serifos island is characterized by rich geodiversity, industrial and cultural heritage. The present paper focuses on the geological and mining heritage of Serifos, with the aim of integrating the island in the international environment of Geoparks, in th...
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Anna Garavelli, Gioacchino Francesco Andriani, Giovanna Fioretti, Vincenzo Iurilli, Antonella Marsico and Daniela Pinto
Sant?Angelo in Criptis (Santeramo in Puglia, South Italy) is a karst cave located in the Alta Murgia National Park (aspiring geopark), presently degraded, but with signs of intense past visiting activity for worship, as testified by the beautiful wall pa...
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Eduardo S. Guimarães, Artur Sá, Ronaldo Gabriel, Helena Moreira, Jaqueliny R. S. Guimarães, Paulo Felipe R. Bandeira, João Marcos F. de Lima Silva, Rafael C. Soares and José Patrício P. Melo
In order to safeguard the material and immaterial heritage and to foster delightful experiences for visitors, this investigation aimed to define a Matrix of Priorities for management of Visitation Impacts Management on the Geosites of Araripe UNESCO Glob...
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Emilio Iranzo-García, Katia Hueso-Kortekaas and Ghaleb Fansa-Saleh
Advances in research on environmental problems and public awareness of them have led to renewed concern about the need to establish mechanisms and figures to protect and manage sites so that geoecological processes remain outside the dynamics of anthropi...
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George Zafeiropoulos and Hara Drinia
In this study, the geoeducational value of five geosites, located in the aspiring geopark of the volcanic island of Nisyros, SE Aegean Sea, was assessed by means of two methods: the G-P method of Brilha (2016) and the M-GAM method. The first method takes...
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Eduardo S. Guimarães, Ronaldo C. D. Gabriel, Artur A. Sá, Rafael C. Soares, Paulo Felipe R. Bandeira, Isabella Hevily S. Torquato, Helena Moreira, Michel M. Marques and Jaqueliny R. S. Guimarães
In this investigation, we formulated the Ecosystem?s Health Provision Spectrum and its centrality indicators, based on the identification of the Ecosystem Health Potentials and Opportunities on the trails of Santo Sepulcro and Riacho do Meio in the Arari...
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