Sustainability in Geoheritage, Geoconservation and Disaster Prevention
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 892
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural and anthropic hazard and risk factors; landslides and triggering factors; geological and geomorphological mapping; soil erosion; preservation of historical and archeological sites; monitoring; cultural landscape and UNESCO heritage; geoheritage and geodiversity; geoarchaeology
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Dear Colleagues,
In the last 20 years, the concepts of geoheritage, geotourism, geodiversity and geoconservation have become increasingly established, with a notable increase in research in the sectors of urban planning, landscape planning and civil protection also; this has highlighted how these factors play a key role in shaping scientific understanding, our knowledge of the environment and the preservation of human culture, as custodians of the Earth's history. The recent establishment of a world day dedicated to geodiversity (6 October) has emphasized this new sensitivity, which must be extended from the scientific world to communities, i.e., heritage communities, as defined by the Faro Convention (2005).
I am pleased to invite you to contribute your original research articles and reviews to this Special Issue, which aims to highlight the state of the art in research regarding geoheritage and conservation strategies, especially when exposed to geological risks and extreme climate events. Geological and landscape heritage is a widespread cultural asset that is associated with information and memories linked to the history of places, from physical transformations due to natural processes, to anthropic transformations linked to various stages of settlement, from prehistory to today. As with other types of cultural heritage (architectural, archaeological, artistic), this heritage is exposed to natural risks (earthquakes, landslides, floods) and anthropic risks (land consumption, conflicts, urban sprawl), which can compromise its partial or total conservation. It is therefore necessary to define useful and effective solutions in order to prevent possible disasters.
The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- The development of new geoconservation strategies;
- Geoheritage and cultural landscape for tourism;
- Quantitative methods of geoheritage estimation;
- Impact of extreme climatic events on the conservation of geoheritage;
- Sustainable use of geoheritage and cultural landscape;
- The negative/positive impacts of slow tourism on geoheritage and landscape;
- Threats to geoheritage and its secondary use (re-use) in tourism;
- Natural and anthropic risks in sites of geological interest (in the broad sense);
- Geoheritage in urban and landscape planning;
- Contribution of historical archival and cartographic sources to the knowledge and study of geoheritage and geodiversity.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Maurizio Lazzari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- geodiversity and geoconservation
- faro heritage community
- landscape archaeology
- geoarchaeology
- climate and geoheritage
- urban geoheritage
- georisks
- geosites investigation and monitoring methods
- quantitative analysis of geosites
- cultural landscape
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