Geoheritage conservation in Ethiopia: the case of the Simien Mountains

Asrat, Asfawossen; Demissie, Metasebia; Mogessie, Aberra

doi:10.2478/v10117-012-0001-0

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“…They recently announced plans to host what they have billed as the First World Congress of Geotourism in 2011. In addition, there has been a number of books on the subject including Geotourism (Dowling and Newsome 2006), Geotourism in Ethiopia (Asrat et al 2009), Fundamentals of Geotourism: With Emphasis on Iran (Nekouie-Sadry 2009), Geology and Geotourism: The Tourism of Geology and Landscape (Newsome and Dowling 2010) and Global Geotourism Perspectives (Dowling and Newsome 2010).…”

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Geotourism’s Global Growth

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Geotourism is essentially 'geological tourism'. The geological element focuses on geology and landscape and includes both 'form', such as landforms, rock outcrops, rock types, sediments, soils and crystals, and 'process', such as volcanism, erosion, glaciation etc. The tourism element of geotourism includes tourists visiting, learning from, appreciating and engaging in geosites. Geotourism is an integral part of UNESCO's geoparks and is essential to their development. Geotourism adds to ecotourism's principal focus on plants (flora) and animals (fauna) by adding a third dimension of the abiotic environment. Thus it is growing around the world through the growth of geoparks as well as independently in many natural and urban areas where tourism's focus in on the geological environment.

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Geotourism’s Global Growth

2010

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“…In Africa, some issues of geodiversity have been covered for key sites of geosciences and for the potential role of geotourism under sustainable development and ecotourism (e.g. Schneider and Schneider 2005;Cumbe 2007;Asrat et al 2012;Errami et al 2013;Ngwira 2015;Thomas and Asrat 2018). Nonetheless, examples of dedicated geoconservation practices in terms of legislation or other effective forms are still limited.…”

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Geoheritage and Resilience of Dallol and the Northern Danakil Depression in Ethiopia

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The Danakil Depression, located in the northern segment of the Afar rift, is a world-class example of active rifting and the birth of a new ocean. The unique, yet only partially interpreted geothermal system of Dallol in northern Danakil is currently receiving renewed attention by researchers and visitors despite its extreme climate since the recent improvements of infrastructure and the stabilisation of Ethio-Eritrean political relations. Previous studies focused on the general geological description, the economic exploitation of potash reserves and interpretation of the complex hydrothermal processes. Continuing monitoring of geothermal activity has not yet been carried out, and the valorisation of local geoheritage has not accompanied the increased interest of tourists. Here, we present a three-step study in order to demonstrate the unique geological environment and international geoheritage significance of Dallol and Danakil. A three-year-long remote sensing campaign has been done to provide information on improving the resilience of visitors through interpreted, monthly hazard maps, and on following up the changes of geothermal activity. Over the same time, the first geoheritage assessment of the region for 13 geosites was carried out along with a comparative analysis of three quantitative methods (to evaluate the scientific importance and the geotouristic development potential of the area). Finally, with the input of the assessment, a preliminary geoheritage management plan was created for practical consideration by stakeholders toward a geoconservation and geotourism development, as well as a resilience system of this peculiar area.

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“…The main novel technological approach presented here is the possibility of using virtual reality (VR) for geo-education, as well as geoheritage communication purposes [1]. We point out that the concept and importance of geoheritage has been described thoroughly in several key papers [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Another main concept is geodiversity, which is the variety of minerals, rocks, landforms, fossils, sediments, as well as the natural phenomena that form and affect them.…”

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A New Way to Explore Volcanic Areas: QR-Code-Based Virtual Geotrail at Mt. Etna Volcano, Italy

Mariotto

Bonali

Tibaldi

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In this body of work, we showcase a historic virtual geotrail on the eastern flank of the iconic Mt. Etna volcano (Italy), along a series of outstanding geological sites and features subsequent to an important eruption that took place in 1928. A geohistoric account of such a major eruption, is of great interest, since it is the only event since 1669 to have caused the destruction of a town (Mascali) in the Etna region. Volcanologists, educators, the lay public, tourists and volcano explorers can now access a series of “virtual geostops” belonging to this virtual geotrail, such that “visitors” can virtually fly above these sites by scanning a QR code on the printed or electronic version of the present manuscript, as well as on the poster provided as additional material for this manuscript. The virtual geostops that comprise the virtual geotrail were developed using the structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry technique from images captured by using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The main result of our work is the virtual geotrail, subdivided in two parts and composed of eight geostops, each showing outstanding examples of geological features resulting from volcanic phenomena that took place also during 1979. Our approach is designed to support classical field trips, and it can undoubtedly become complementary to traditional field teaching in earth sciences, both now and in the future.

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Geoheritage conservation in Ethiopia: the case of the Simien Mountains

Cited by 37 publications

References 18 publications

Geotourism’s Global Growth

Geotourism’s Global Growth

Geoheritage and Resilience of Dallol and the Northern Danakil Depression in Ethiopia

A New Way to Explore Volcanic Areas: QR-Code-Based Virtual Geotrail at Mt. Etna Volcano, Italy

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