Protocol on geoconservation and geoheritage
Lots of people are coming to geoconservation and geoheritage for the first time, some from non-geological disciplines. The text below may be of assistance in explaining a few of the basic principles of geoheritage, of effective geosite use and protection.
These principles are in line with thinking in the ProGEO community and our associations' published aims, building upon the original Digne Declaration which ProGEO's Council wrote in 1991. Please visit the Protocol page.
GEOHERITAGE. Our Journal!
"Geoheritage".
A new scientific, ProGEO-based journal is since 2009 released and growing stronger. Coming papers are available on springerlink.com as 'On-line first'.
The new, updated information from Springer is found here. Please also use this pdf flyer, to spread the information.
There is
a special subscription price for ProGEO members. At the meeting at Rab, Croatia, journal subscription fees and ProGEO membership fees have been decided. Please see this summary.
Short info:
The contract has been signed by the former president of ProGEO, Dr Francesco Zarlenga, and the renowned publishers Springer Verlag, has launched the journal.
Thus we make - after months of talks, planning, and letter writing to the developing network around the World - a concrete step towards publication of the first journal of it kind! That is, the first serious peer-reviewed journal ever that has been dedicated to geoheritage (site and portable), geoconservation, interpretation and geotourism. There is a great opportunity in front of us all – to advance both the thinking on our shared geo(morpho)logical heritage and its practical protection, and to globalise activity and interchange.
Of course, ProGEO is not the only organisation involved, it represents a consortium of participating partners in this venture, including: the IUGS Commission on Geoscience for Environmental Management (GEM), the IUGS Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) and subcommissions, INHIGEO (IUGS International Commission on History of Geological Sciences), the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG), the International Association of Palaeontologists (IPA), the European Association of Geological Societies (AEGS), the Geological Society of Africa (GSA), and the Office of World Geoparks, Beijing, as well as national bodies and many respected colleagues in many fields. It is pleasure to thank all who have given their support and ideas thus far.
We hope you share the executive committee’s enthusiasm for this latest development. Please tell your ProGEO and all national contacts about his step forward to the launch of Geoheritage. We ask national ProGEO representatives and regional chairmen to circulate this information as soon as possible, and if you can to convene meetings in your country to discuss written contributions and membership subscriptions.
Link to IUGS COGE
In order to improve the visibility of the IUGS Commission on Geoscience Education, Training & Technology Transfer (COGE), ProGEO, as an IUGS Affiliate, is asked to add the COGE website on its web site. Please visit http://www.iugscoge.com/ to share their information.
Book announcement
Australian ProGEO member Margaret Brocx is the author of the book Geoheritage – from Global Perspectives to Local Principles for Conservation and Planning (2008). Please use this order form to order it directly from Western Australian Museum. Or use: http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/store/museum-books/geology
Membership
New members are requested to fill in the application form to be registered and to approve that we keep your name and address in our database.
Full payment instruction is found on the subpage ProGEO membership . Pay either on-line (credit card) free of charge(!), or through international bank transfer (IBAN-number and BIC/swiftcode).
New meetings
Please visit our Coming events page and read about the coming ProGEO activities and other meetings!
All issues of ProGEO News is now available as pdf files. Numbers 1–3, 1995 and 1, 1996 is also found on the News page. Enjoy!
ProGEO News 4/2011 is now distributed to ProGEO members. Issue 2/2011 is found on the web. Please find this and earlier issues here.
