Quantitative assessment of geodiversity and urban growth impacts in Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The role of geodiversity in providing ecosystem services at broad scales

“…However, not only is biodiversity under threat of global change, but human actions also compromise the quality and quantity of geodiversity in the future (Gordon and Barron 2012). For example, urbanization and mineral resources extraction create a severe risk to the sustainable use of abiotic environment in the coming years (van Ree and van Beukering 2016; Santos et al 2017;Tukiainen et al 2017b). One must remember that many of the abiotic features have established during thousands and millions of years and once they are destroyed or used up, these features are virtually forever lost for the modern society (e.g., Gray 2013).…”

“…In addition, the found patterns may differ in more human disturbed environments. For example, Santos et al (2017) recently discovered that urbanization impacted a significant portion of the areas classified with high geodiversity in Brazil. It should also be noted that the used ES were not actual final services according to CICES (2018), because we do not know how much of these ES are actually used or consumed by people (see discussion of classification in Banzhaf 2007 andFisher et al 2009).…”

Kernel Density Applied to the Quantitative Assessment of Geodiversity

“…This wider perspective may allow the inclusion of geodiversity as a specific and objective measure in territorial management plans, as tested by Ilic et al (2016) and Santos et al (2017). It can also contribute decisively to support sustainable development policies (Stace and Larwood 2006) and landscape planning (Muller 2011).…”

Avaliação dos impactos à geodiversidade e ao patrimônio geológico em áreas intensamente urbanizadas: estudo aplicado à Bacia de Taubaté-SP

“…Moreover, maps can help in the planning of the territory and in the definition of priority areas for conservation (Pereira et al, 2013). In Santos et al (2017), geodiversity and urban development maps were used to assess the impacts of urbanization in a tourist zone of the state of Rio de Janeiro,…”