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Geoconservation consists of the selection and conservation of geodiversity elements that have significant heritage value. The management of geological sites is based on specific procedures to ensure public use and minimize adverse impacts. The evaluation of the carrying capacity of geological sites is a management tool that helps to define the acceptable limits of visitation, without causing significant impacts on the integrity of these sites. This work presents a review of the carrying capacity concept and the most common methods used to assess the carrying capacity in tourist destinations. Based on this review and analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of existing methods, this work presents a method that defines a set of actions for management and calculation of the number of visitors recommended for geological sites, based on specific geoindicators for each type of site.

Este trabalho traz informações referentes aos cursos para monitores ambientais realizados em unidades de conservação no litoral norte do estado de São Paulo. A efetivação destes cursos, intitulados “Introdução às Geociências”, foi motivada pela carência de explicações acerca dos aspectos relacionados à formação da paisagem, durante a participação em trabalhos de campo na região. Os cursos têm carga horária de 16 horas e compreendem módulos referentes a Tempo geológico, Ciclo das rochas, Estrutura interna da Terra e Tectônica de placas, bem como de aspectos da história geológica da região. Além dos módulos teóricos, foram realizadas atividades práticas e saídas de campo para as trilhas mais visitadas em cada unidade de conservação. Ao final dos cursos, os alunos responderam a questionários sobre perfil individual e conteúdos apreendidos. Os resultados mostram alto grau de envolvimento dos alunos com o tema, indicando clara disposição dos monitores em transmitir as informações recebidas a futuros visitantes destes parques.

The characterization of the elements of geodiversity, through different inventory and quantitative evaluation methods, in the past decades, has allowed the identification of the most representative sites of the regional geological evolution of the state of São Paulo. Between 2013 and 2016, the first phase of the inventory of the geological heritage of São Paulo state was carried out. At the end of this stage, 142 geosites integrated into 11 geological categories were defined, which were characterized and quantitatively evaluated according to their scientific value and degradation risk, to establish future management priorities. Between 2017 and 2019, in the second phase of the research, the data obtained in the inventory were submitted to an analysis aiming at the diagnosis of use and protection and the proposal of strategies for management and public use of these geosites. Currently, the inventory of the geological heritage of the state is composed of 143 geosites, of which, based on their scientific value, 57 were evaluated as potential candidates to be integrated into the inventory of the national geological heritage. Despite this, there are still few works that systematically apply the stages of conservation and monitoring of geological sites. In this context, this study presented the initial phase of the definition of a methodology for the assessment of the evolution of the state of conservation of the geological heritage and its application in the state of São Paulo, to subsidize future actions of management and preservation of this heritage. In this stage, 129 state geosites were evaluated based on three defined criteria. This evaluation preliminarily resulted in the identification of 10 priority geosites, which will