Methodological Proposal for the Inventory and Assessment of Geomorphosites: An Integrated Approach focused on Territoria
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Methodological Proposal for the Inventory and Assessment of Geomorphosites: An Integrated Approach focused on Territorial Management and Geoconservation Daniel S. Santos
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Kátia L. Mansur1 José C. S. Seoane1 Vanessa C. Mucivuna2 Emmanuel Reynard3 ●
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Received: 5 March 2020 / Accepted: 23 June 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Geoconservation has been growing in importance within the environmental management context. The conservation of geological heritage is being more and more recognised as an essential issue in nature conservation. Inventories of geosites are considered basic steps in geoconservation strategies and constitute a tool to support management considering the sites’ values, use potential and risks of degradation. There are dozens of proposed methods to create inventories and to perform qualitative and quantitative evaluations of the sites and there are still discussions concerning the issues of how to select and evaluate sites and provide management guidelines. Geomorphosites are geosites with geomorphological nature and it is a category that presents some peculiarities highlighted in the literature. This work aimed at proposing a method for inventorying and assessing geomorphosites designed for territorial management focused on the use potential of the sites, divided into scientific, educational and geotouristic uses, the promotion conditions and the risks of degradation. The method was applied to the southeast coast of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, which has a high geomorphological diversity. The result was the creation of an inventory of geomorphosites in which all sites were described and quantitatively assessed, creating a product that can be easily applied in the management of the sites. The objective of this work was to contribute to the methodological discussions and to strengthen the insertion of geoconservation on territorial management. Keywords Geomorphosites Inventory Methodology Geoconservation ●
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Introduction The scientific interest in geoheritage has been growing significantly in the last decades and many initiatives of protection and promotion are being carried out all around the world (Reynard and Brilha 2018). The emergence of geoconservation as a new geoscientific domain concerned with the conservation, management and sustainable use of
* Daniel S. Santos [email protected] 1
Post-Graduation Program in Geology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Institute of Geosciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Institute of Geography and Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Center for Mountain Research, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
geodiversity elements, although recent, is becoming an essential topic within public policies, scientific research, nature conservation, etc. (Brocx and Semeniuk 2007; Henriques et al. 2011; Brilha 2017). Geodiversity, as defined in Gray (2013) corresponds to the “natural range (diversity) of geological (
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