International Workshop on Urban Geomorphological Heritage
Co-organised by the University of Rome La Sapienza (Roma 1), the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia and the University of Lausanne, under the auspices of the Working Group on Geomorphosites of International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG), the European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage (ProGEO), the Italian Association of Physical Geography and Geomorphology (AIGEO) and the Associazione Italiana di Geologia e Turismo, this workshop aims at sharing research and methods on urban geomorphological heritage.
The human presence on the Earth increased as ever during the last two centuries and so the people migration from countryside to cities. This led to an intense urbanization of some areas, which were affected by impor- tant landscape transformation. Today's landscape is the result of gradual changes, which had to be adapted on the earlier morphology. The analy- sis of historical changes can help understanding how transformations will develop in the future. The evolution of urban landscapes is also interes- ting from a cultural point of view, and urban geomorphological heritage is often the base for the development of geotourism.
The workshop will focus on the following topics:
- geomorphological analysis in urban environment
- methodologies for the assessment and mapping of urban geomorpho- sites
- urban geotourism
- interpretation and popularization of urban geomorphosites
- relationships between cultural and geomorphological heritage in cities
- conservation of geoheritage and urban growth
- geoheritage and urban planning
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Contact
Prof. Dr Emmanuel Reynard
UNIL
Institut de géographie et durabilité IGD
Batiment Géopolis
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland