America's Geoheritage II: Identifying, Developing, and Preserving America's Natural Legacy Proceedings of a Workshop (2021) / Chapter Skim
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3 The U.S. Role in Global Geoheritage
3 The U.S. Role in Global Geoheritage
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are designated to date to pay special attention to Earth heritage; World Heritage Convention coverage of Earth Heritage is still uneven regionally, with only eight sites in Africa and two in Arab states, he said. IUCN provides guidance on the potential of World Heritage listings through a thematic framework, currently under revision.
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(See below for summaries of presentations from representatives of two such geoheritage areas, in Michigan and West Virginia, to explain how they redirected their efforts to continue to promote geoheritage even if not as a formal Global Geopark.) Brennan Jordan, University of South Dakota, from the focus group on geotourism and outdoor recreation, remarked that "Global Geoparks can be a model on how to use geoheritage to integrate geotourism, outdoor recreation, economic development, and community engagement, even for projects at a much smaller scale." Badman said the third and potentially largest opportunity to include more geodiversity in conservation work is through protected areas such as parks and reserves.
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