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This short paper describes 8 practical pointers to improve visitors’ experience of geoheritage sites and areas. These are based around 5 themes: putting communication and education at the heart of geoconservation, focussing communication on the target audiences, challenging the current scientific thinking, making sure there is a duty of care towards the visitor and connecting geoconservation to other conservation interests of the public. It is written on the basis of personal experience from visiting protected areas in many parts of the world. Examples of good practice with web links are provided. It builds on the IUCN Best Practice Guideline on geoconservation. The key message is that visitor target audiences and visitor experience should be included throughout the development of geoconservation protected areas, rather than the more traditional approach of adding these considerations later in the developmental process.
期刊介绍：
The Geoheritage journal is an international journal dedicated to discussing all aspects of our global geoheritage, both in situ and portable. The journal will invite all contributions on the conservation of sites and materials - use, protection and practical heritage management - as well as its interpretation through education, training and tourism.
The journal wishes to cover all aspects of geoheritage and its protection. Key topics are:
- Identification, characterisation, quantification and management of geoheritage;
- Geodiversity and geosites;
- On-site science, geological and geomorphological research:
- Global scientific heritage - key scientific geosites, GSSPs, stratotype conservation
and management;
- Scientific research and education, and the promotion of the geosciences thereby;
- Conventions, statute and legal instruments, national and international;
- Integration of biodiversity and geodiversity in nature conservation and land-use
policies;
- Geological heritage and Environmental Impact Assessment studies;
- Geological heritage, sustainable development, community action, practical initiatives and tourism;
- Geoparks: creation, management and outputs;
- Conservation in the natural world, Man-made and natural impacts, climate change;
- Geotourism definitions, methodologies, and case studies;
- International mechanisms for conservation and popularisation - World Heritage Sites,
National Parks etc.;
- Materials, data and people important in the history of science, museums, collections
and all portable geoheritage;
- Education and training of geoheritage specialists;
- Pedagogical use of geological heritage - publications, teaching media, trails, centres,
on-site museums;
- Linking the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005- 2014) with geoconservation.
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