Nowadays we are immersed in the “triple planetary crisis”: climate crisis, pollution crisis and biodiversity crisis. This relates to current advances in the knowledge about “planetary boundaries”. Also, cross-disciplinary studies are key to understand the evolving interconnections between the geosphere, the biosphere and the human societies. In this sense, landscape and geoheritage has emerged as a very relevant concept both from Earth sciences and related sciences linked to the conservation of biodiversity, landscapes and cultural diversity (including a decolonial perspective). Traditionally, there have been difficulties in the inventory, quantification, and consolidation of relevant geoheritage sites, especially as concerns the limited tools for an adequate understanding of its complex nature and multiple connections to other landscape values, including biodiversity, cultural values, and the more integrative concept of biogeocultural heritage. Additionally, virtual heritage techniques are now receiving much attention as a novel path to better conserve geoheritage values and sites by means of the use of advances in digital imaging technology to synthesize, reproduce, represent, and display information. We are applying our approach in specific territories within Latin America, in which the relation between the geosphere/biosphere/humans is explicitly defined as “territories for sustainability”. We are applying cross-disciplinary “earth stewardship science” by crossing inputs, approaches and data from Geospatial science, molecular biology, geophysics and social-environmental information. The concept seeks an integration where human activities dominate (Anthroscapes), with those in which nature features dominate (Bioscapes).

Andres Moreira-Muñoz & Pablo Mansilla-Quiñones
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Instituto de Geografia

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ID Abstract: 767