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INTERNATIONAL UNESCO CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL GEOPARKS ABSTRACTS SEPT 19-22, 2014 SAINT JOHN NEW BRUNSWICK CANADA INTERNATIONAL UNESCO CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL GEOPARKS ABSTRACTS SEPT 19-22, 2014 SAINT JOHN NEW BRUNSWICK CANADA In the following pages, we are pleased to present the abstracts of Oral Presentation presentations and Poster Presentations to be presented at the conference. Abstracts are arranged in alphabetical order by the LAST NAME of the FIRST AUTHOR. CONFERENCE THEMES 1. Geoparks and sustainable use of natural resources 2. Engaging Communities 3. Education and Interpretation in Geoparks 4. Aspiring Geoparks 5. Mature Geoparks 6. UNESCO Collaboration REVIEW COMMITTEE 7. Intangible Cultural Heritage Jane Fullerton Stonehammer Geopark, Canada Randall Miller, PhD New Brunswick Museum, Canada Godfrey Nowlan, PhD Canadian National Committee for Geoparks, Canada Lee Jolliffe, PhD University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada Denise Gorfinkiel UNESCO, Latin America & Caribbean Wesley Hill Geological Society of America, United States Kristin Rangnes, PhD Gea Norvegica Geopark & GGN Bureau Member, Norway Nickolas Zouros, PhD Lesvos Petrified Forest Geopark & GGN Bureau Member, Greece Claudia Eckhardt Bergstrasse-Odenwald Global Geopark, Germany Patrick Mc Keever, PhD UNESCO, Headquarters Guy Martini Haute-Provence Global Geopark & GGN Bureau Member, France Setsuya Nakada, PhD Unzen Global Geopark, Japan Felix Sadrack Toteu UNESCO, Africa Abraham Hossian, PhD German Development Cooperation, Bangladesh Melanie Border English Riviera Global Geopark, England Kirstin Lemon, PhD Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark, Ireland Flavia Fernanda de Lima GGN Bureau Advisor, Brazil 6th International UNESCO Conference on Global Geoparks • 2014 • Saint John, CANADA 3 _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ The importance of a Global Geopark in a rural area in Abyaneh: Where the culture and geology meet, a case Denmark study of geology impact on a culture-rich local society _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ THOMAS ADELSKOV KIMIYA SADAT AJAYEBI1 and ALIREZA Mayor of Odsherred Municipality, Odsherred AMRIKAZEMI2 Municipality, Nyvej 22, 4573 Hojby, Denmark 1. Geoheritage Institute of Middle East & Islamic Azad <[email protected]> University (Karaj Branch), Iran <[email protected]> ¶ 2. Geoheritage Department, Geological Survey of Iran & Geopark Odsherred has applied for acceptance University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran into EGN and GGN and hopes to be accepted into the prestigious network in 2014. For the past six years, Abyaneh is located in central part of Iran in Odsherred Municipality has been a driving force in Isfahan Province, a very famous historical village for gathering and coordinating the county’s key players tourists. One of the characteristics of this village is within tourism, business, culture, and the local geological related architecture. That means because of the communities. Throughout this process, the focus has geological setting (located in red sandstone and arkoses been on results, responsibilities and relationships. It has formations), houses are built from the same materials, been about putting political will behind the visions, and create a reddish landscape in the area. It can be seen about aligning the many varying agendas, and about not only in the old houses, but also the new ones. The capitalizing on diversity as much as possible. outcrops of these formations also created a beautiful A Danish municipality is responsible for a wide landscape in the area. This landscape along with the variety of public services: schools, daycares, health architecture of the village made a rare and attractive services, environmental protection, harbors, sporting combination. There are also Karst features in dolomite facilities, roads, fire and rescue, city/county planning, and limestone formation used by ancient people as unemployment, nursing homes and many more. The temple, shelter, mosque and house. There are many other responsibilities include both carrying out the actual cultural, natural and geological attractions in the area that work, as well as overseeing it at the strategic level, and have made it a popular tourism destination. Attractions are financed through independent tax collection. And include old shrines, Qanat systems, carpet weaving, there is enough to use the money on, since Odsherred is handicrafts, ancient school, special ceremonies and not among the richest of Denmark's counties. Yet, in its celebrities, and the anthropology museum. way, it is an advantage for a project like Geopark GEOHIM and GSI consider Abyaneh as a target Odsherred that the administration is so local, covering, for future developments in the Geotourism subject. as it does, such a broad spectrum. There have been some communications with a local The geopark has turned out to be a gathering point society to raise their knowledge about Geoheritage and for thousands of initiatives and projects within four its importance to use inside their other known tourism main themes: Through its unique ice age landscape, potentials. It will be an introduction for a mid-term Odsherred focuses on our rich cultural history, our art plan forwarding area to a national geopark. history and artistic ambitions and our local produce • Theme 7 – Oral Presentation and products. Sustainability, environmental protection, job creation, education, dissemination, growth, and, not _____________________________________________ to forget, identity, have become the common Protecting Hyderabad’s Natural and Cultural denominator for the area’s collective development. Heritage Geopark Odsherred is looking forward to putting _____________________________________________ in even more energy from both the public and private sectors and the NGO-level into the welfare and growth FARAH NAZ ALAM of Geopark Odsherred and the international geopark Department of Landscape Architecture, AB 226, Ball network. State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA • Theme 4 – Oral Presentation <[email protected]> Abstracts 6th International UNESCO Conference on Global Geoparks 6th International UNESCO Conference on Global Geoparks • 2014 • Saint John, CANADA 4 Hyderabad, situated on India’s Deccan Plateau, ALIREZA AMRIKAZEMI 1, EQBAL ZOBEYRI2 , S. hosts Archaean-era geology in its majestic denudational MOHAMMAD DAKHTEH3 , and MAZIAR landforms. The city is also a metropolis with high- QASEMINEZHAD A.4 density urban land use growing exponentially – almost 1. Geoheritage Department, Geological Survey of Iran & quadrupling – over the last 30 years. This increased University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran spatial need has resulted in urban development <[email protected]> ¶ 2. Qeshm Geopark, Iran displacing Hyderabad’s natural heritage, eroding the ¶ 3. Qeshm Environment Department, Iran ¶ 4. city’s Genius Loci. The ensuing loss has impacted three Piramoon Architects, Iran realms – geological, ecological and cultural. This presentation reports results of a landscape design Qeshm Geopark was among the first GGN project that contributes to protecting Hyderabad’s Members recognized in 2006. For many years, Qeshm cultural identity through the development of an was famous just for its unique and exciting desert educational Geopark that inspires stewardship by landscapes and geological features but nowadays, after a putting Hyderabadis in closer contact with their revolutionary change in management, a wide and environs. inclusive involvement of local communities can be Three criteria informed the Geopark site observed through geopark. selection: recommendations of a non-profit Qeshm society mostly includes traditional and organization, the Society to Save Rocks; Hyderabad devout people. Women always stay at home and are Metropolitan Development Authority’s 2031 Master rarely seen outside. It is not usual for girls and women Plan for Greater Hyderabad; and a critical analysis of to communicate with strangers. Involving women - as a urgent urban threat to select boulder sites in very important part of society - in geopark activities is Hyderabad. The initially chosen 400-Hectare really a challenge. Qeshm geopark management Venkateshwaragutta site was expanded to 600 Hectares prepared some facilities for women to present their to connect relationships between natural systems homemade handicrafts to geopark visitors. In the including a stream corridor, natural lake, and beginning it was just for their simple and traditional municipally conserved forest areas in the vicinity. products and making them interested to be more active Mirroring the city’s dichotomous character, the in society and have income to help their families. site’s existing conflicting land uses are a religious temple Hereafter geopark experts help women to incorporate and a master-balancing reservoir located adjacently on some simple sketches of surrounding landscapes and the site’s tallest hillock. They represent the necessities of nature into their products. In this way local people will cultural living in Hyderabad. The challenge in designing have some awareness about their local geological and this Geopark is to successfully integrate the spiritual, natural features. In addition, they learned simple and practical and ecological in one harmonious whole, while general stories and explanations about land formations educating park visitors about interconnected natural and try to transfer this information to visitors of their environmental systems. This is