Volcanic Geoheritage

Németh, Károly; Casadevall, Thomas J.; Moufti, Mohammed Rashad; Martı́, Joan

doi:10.1007/s12371-017-0257-9

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“…Geoheritage and geosite studies have assumed growing scientific importance in the past 25 years, and territorial legislative initiatives have emerged all around the world. Geoheritage studies have usually been carried out in terrestrial environments: Mountain areas (e.g., [1][2][3][4][5][6]), coastal areas (e.g., [7][8][9][10][11]), karst areas (e.g., [12][13][14][15][16]), fluvial areas (e.g., [17][18][19]), and volcanic areas ( [20][21][22][23]). Recently, a great deal of interest has concerned also geoheritage in urban areas (e.g., [24][25][26][27][28][29][30]).…”

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Bridging Terrestrial and Marine Geoheritage: Assessing Geosites in Portofino Natural Park (Italy)

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Vandelli

Fiorentini

et al. 2019

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Interest in geoheritage research has grown over the past 25 years and several countries have issued laws to encourage improvement and conservation. Investigations on geosites are prevalently carried out on land environments, although the study of underwater marine environments is also of paramount scientific importance. Nevertheless, due to the constraints of underwater environments, these sites have been little explored, also on account of the higher costs and difficulties of surveying. This research has identified and assessed the terrestrial and marine geosites of the Portofino Natural Park and Protected Marine Area, which are internationally famous owing to both the land scenic features and the quality of the marine ecosystem. The goal was to pinpoint the most suitable sites for tourist improvement and fruition and identify possible connections between the two environments. In all, 28 terrestrial sites and 27 marine sites have been identified and their scientific value as well as their ecological, cultural, and aesthetic importance has been assessed. In addition, accessibility, services, and economic potential of geosites has also been taken into account. Both the updated database of terrestrial and marine geosites in the Portofino protected areas and the assessment procedure adopted can become useful tools for the managers of these sites and provide decision-makers with possible strategies for tourist development.

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Bridging Terrestrial and Marine Geoheritage: Assessing Geosites in Portofino Natural Park (Italy)

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Vandelli

Fiorentini

et al. 2019

Water

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“…Millions of visitors are attracted by the wonders of volcanoes and volcanic landforms every year (Erfurt-Cooper and Cooper, 2010;Erfurt-Cooper et al, 2015;Jones and Ohsawa, 2016;Németh et al, 2017). Their popular appeal is substantial.…”

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“…Our focus here is on volcanism and its coupled geological and cultural heritage (Németh et al, 2017).…”

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The Dark Geo-Cultural Heritage of Volcanoes: Combining Cultural and Geoheritage Perspectives for Mututal Benefit

Scarlett¹,

Riede²

2018

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It is now widely accepted that vulnerability is in part culturally and historically contingent. Similarly, geoheritage cannot be readily disentangled from cultural values and cultural heritage given that the assignment of value to a given geosite is conducted in the present and that many if not most geosites are also sites of culture-historical significance. Vice versa, most tangible cultural heritage also contains elements of geoheritage. To bridge these perspectives, we propose the notion of geo-cultural heritage; we argue that the viewpoints of geoheritage and of cultural heritage – here especially of dark heritage – can be brought together for mutual benefit. We begin by demonstrating through a bibliometric analysis that the two fields never were fully connected and that they remain disjointed. We highlight at the same time that cultural heritage generally leverages more public attention while the natural sciences arguably command greater attention with policymakers. We then illustrate how geoheritage and dark cultural heritage can be brought together through four case studies of past volcanism and their complex human impacts. In concluding, we encourage heritage workers to be more fully interdisciplinary, to read more widely outside their own fields, and to disseminate their research more broadly for mutual benefits of preservation, risk reduction and valorisation.

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“…This is particularly true considering the definition of geodiversity, which includes the features together with the processes that form and alter them (e.g. Dudley 2008;Németh et al 2017). As previously discussed, microforms are key for the understanding of geomorphological processes in bedrock rivers.…”

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Morphometric measurements of bedrock rivers at different spatial scales and applications to geomorphological heritage research

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Ortega-Becerril

Garrote

et al. 2019

Prog Earth Planet Sci

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Morphometric characterisation is particularly relevant in the study of geomorphological heritage. 3D modelling techniques have been proven as very useful tools to recognise, characterise and valorise geomorphosites. Bedrock rivers account for one of the most outstanding aspects within geomorphological heritage due to the amount of distinctive and attractive geomorphological features associated to them and the high preservation of sculpted forms. Digital elevation models (DEMs) have made it increasingly possible to establish accurate morphometric indices and establish clearer connections between forms and processes. This paper reviews different methodologies to obtain DEMs on bedrock rivers. This review goes from DEM analysis at multiple spatial scales to introduce optical microrugosimeter as the latest technical development to facilitate micromorphometric analysis. Micromorphometric analysis opens the scope for improving the knowledge we have on trans-scale issues in bedrock rivers. Micromorphometric analysis also opens a new layer of information that enriches the public's valuation of geodiversity of geomorphosites by increasing its didactic and interpretative potential.

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Volcanic Geoheritage

Cited by 69 publications

References 20 publications

Bridging Terrestrial and Marine Geoheritage: Assessing Geosites in Portofino Natural Park (Italy)

Bridging Terrestrial and Marine Geoheritage: Assessing Geosites in Portofino Natural Park (Italy)

The Dark Geo-Cultural Heritage of Volcanoes: Combining Cultural and Geoheritage Perspectives for Mututal Benefit

Morphometric measurements of bedrock rivers at different spatial scales and applications to geomorphological heritage research

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