Protecting and using geosites : a project to establish geoheritage management p...

• Author(s): Carvalho, Ângela ; Pereira, Paulo ; Brilha, J. B.
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/20615
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Geoconservation strategy; Geoheritage; Management
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

A geoconservation strategy for a region or a country must be based on six main stages: inventory, quantification, classification, conservation, promotion and monitoring of geosites (Brilha, 2005). The first two steps constitute the geosites assessment and the following four are considered to be their management. Inventory methods and especially proposals for the quantification of different types of geodiversity values have been the subject of numerous studies, during the last years. The project here presented aims to lay the groundwork for a geoconservation strategy in Portugal, providing a methodological basis and technical support to these management procedures, which must be performed sequentially and concerted.