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9780443289972: Geoheritage: Assessment, Protection and Management
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ISBN 10: 0443289972 ISBN 13: 9780443289972
Casa editrice: Elsevier, 2025

Sinossi

Geoheritage: Assessment, Protection, and Management, Second Edition provides a comprehensive exploration of geoheritage, beginning with an introduction to geodiversity and progressing to the characterisation of in situ and ex situ geoheritage, its protection and sustainable use. It also offers advanced concepts and methodologies for site assessment, mapping, conservation, visualisation and management, and features 12 case studies spanning five continents.

Authored by 75 experts from 22 countries, this edition includes nearly 200 figures and maps. New chapters expand the scope of the first edition to address geoheritage’s links to biodiversity, climate change, natural hazards, ecosystem services, education and cities.

This essential resource is perfect for geoscientists and students in the fields of geodiversity, geoheritage, geoconservation and geotourism, as well as professionals involved in nature conservation, protected areas and geoparks.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Emmanuel Reynard is a geographer and Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a member of the Geoheritage Specialist Group of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and the President of the Scientific Committee of the Chablais UNESCO Global Geopark, France. He also serves in the Geoheritage Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. Previously, he chaired the IAG Working Group on Geomorphosites and the Swiss Academy of Sciences’ Geosites Working Group.



José Brilha is a geologist and Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal. He is a member of the UNESCO IGCP Scientific Board, of the UNESCO Global Geopark Evaluation Team, and of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and its Geoheritage Specialist Group. He was President of ProGEO, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Geoheritage, member of the Geoheritage Task Group of IUGS, of the Portuguese Committee for IGCP, and of the Portuguese Geoparks Forum.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Geoheritage: Assessment, Protection, and Management, Second Edition provides a comprehensive exploration of geoheritage, beginning with an introduction to geodiversity and progressing to the characterisation of in situ and ex situ geoheritage, its protection and sustainable use. It also offers advanced concepts and methodologies for site assessment, mapping, conservation, visualisation and management, and features 12 case studies spanning five continents.

Authored by 75 experts from 22 countries, this edition includes nearly 200 figures and maps. New chapters expand the scope of the first edition to address geoheritage’s links to biodiversity, climate change, natural hazards, ecosystem services, education and cities.

This essential resource is perfect for geoscientists and students in the fields of geodiversity, geoheritage, geoconservation and geotourism, as well as professionals involved in nature conservation, protected areas and geoparks.

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Editore
Elsevier
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0443289972
ISBN 13 
9780443289972
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
2
Numero di pagine
796
Redattore
Reynard
Contatto del produttore
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