Geodiversity: a significant, multi-faceted and evolving, geoscientific paradigm rather than a redundant term

Using outlines of ten geodiversity-related topics plus some related studies, this paper argues that geodiversity has contributed to many new insights, new avenues of research and new results. The ten topics are: Celebrating, Assessment and Measurement, Geosystem Services, Biodiversity, Geomaterials,...

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Published inProceedings of the Geologists' Association Vol. 132; no. 5; pp. 605 - 619
Main Author Gray, Murray
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2021
Subjects
Geoconservation
Geodiversity
Geomaterials
Geosystem services
Geotourism
Sustainability
Geotourism
Geosystem services
Geodiversity
Geomaterials
Sustainability
Geoconservation
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Summary:Using outlines of ten geodiversity-related topics plus some related studies, this paper argues that geodiversity has contributed to many new insights, new avenues of research and new results. The ten topics are: Celebrating, Assessment and Measurement, Geosystem Services, Biodiversity, Geomaterials, Geotourism and Leisure, Geoheritage, National Geoconservation, World Heritage Sites and Global Geoparks, and Sustainability. It is concluded that geodiversity is a) a global, as well as regional/local concept, b) more than just related to biodiversity, important though that is, c) absolutely central to any relationship between the geology-related topics (‘Gs’). It is therefore argued that geodiversity is not a ‘redundant term’ as recently suggested but instead is a significant, multi-faceted and evolving, geoscientific paradigm.
ISSN:0016-7878
DOI:10.1016/j.pgeola.2021.09.001