The development of geoeducation generates a link between people, landscapes, and their culture by recognising the geological potential around geosites conservation. Geosites have important scientific value constitute way generating learning tools for geoeducation. city Guayaquil, main port Ecuador, has valuable mining heritage, which been affected population growth its invasion protected areas,...

Heritage speakers are people raised in a home where one language is spoken who subsequently switch to another dominant language. The version of the home language that they have not completely acquired – heritage language – has only recently been given the attention it deserves from linguists and language instructors. Despite the appearance of great variation among heritage speakers, they fall a...

A UNESCO project, Support for the Preparation for the World Heritage Serial Nomination of the Silk Roads in South Asia, afforded the opportunity to research evidence for Silk Roads exchange in South Asia. The first part of the paper explores the challenges of archaeology in the Kingdom of Bhutan, located on the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas. GIS-based approaches to model earlier sett...

Physical and intellectual access to heritage is shaped by conservation through a longterm, cyclic and symbiotic relationship of representation and intervention (or lack of it). This informs future use and representation. Value (which may be assigned for different reasons) makes heritage. All heritage is valued for varied reasons. Some argue that heritage has inherent value; this is not covered ...

The past exists today in the form of objects, memories and landscapes. Of course this existence is illusory; objects, memories or landscapes have not remained the same throughout time. The past can still only exist in people’s heads and nowhere else. At the same time, people constantly require objects that recall the presence of the past. It is difficult to foresee the future, but it can be cre...

Following World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the political and population dynamics of the Middle East changed dramatically. New national borders, defined either by western mandates or by local sovereignties, included peoples and architectural legacies from a variety of religions and ethnicities. Under the unifying pressures of national ideologies, the diverse groups of the Midd...

Teach the Earth: The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) Portal for Geoscience Faculty (Carleton College). This portal is the gateway to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions and more http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html [1] See the SERC site Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences for a searchable database of articles on effective learning and...

A consortium, consisting of seven IT-research institutions, the five leading cultural heritage institutions and a number of commercial parties in the Netherlands, has submitted an IT research programme for the digitised cultural heritage, called the Digital Production Line (DPL). Although the partners in the consortium have different points of view on the cultural heritage domain, their common ...

The tradition of organized protection of cultural heritage has lasted for a century and a half in the territory of today’s Slovenia. The first laws, as well as in other republics of the former common state, were issued at the end of World War II and since then significant activity in this field began to develop. The first bill on the level of the Republic was passed in 1948, followed by the law...

Initiatives to protect the Earth system in several countries are known since seventeenth century, mostly dealing with preservation of fossils, caves, and other geomorphological features. The word “Geoconservation”, which best describes this activity, appeared became popular 1990’s, together subjects such as Geoknowledge, Geoheritage, Geotourism, Geoparks, Geodiversity, led gradual development e...