Dynamic Geodiversity, Geosystem Services, and Sustainable Development: Insights from Sesia Val Grande UNESCO Global Geopark
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Human activities and global factors have caused imbalances in mountain regions, leading to significant changes in these environments. One of the most visible impacts of rising temperatures is the melting of glaciers, which causes changes in the pressure on adjacent slopes and increases their instability, leading to mass movements (Chiarle et al., 2021). Other notable effects include the degradation of permafrost and increased erosion in previously glaciated areas (Savi et al., 2021). These changes affect the prevalence of natural hazards and result in the loss of geodiversity and ecosystem services, making it necessary to develop new conservation strategies to protect mountain regions and their geoheritage.To understand the impact of climate change and human activity on geoheritage and on the benefits that geodiversity provides to society, we conducted a study in the Alagna Valsesia municipality, a high-elevation mountain area in the Sesia Val Grande UGGp. We mapped geodiversity in that area using GIS data following a quali-quantitative approach. Then we identified geosites and evaluated their value to show their potential. We also assessed various abiotic ecosystem services, including regulating, provisioning, knowledge, cultural, and supporting services, and mapped them analysing the evolutionary relationship between humans and nature. By evaluating global drivers of change, we were able to understand the impact of these changes on identified services and to highlight the need for strong planning and management strategies for the Sesia Val Grande UGGp and for the sustainable development of vulnerable mountain regions.This approach helps us to understand the natural and human-induced threats to geodiversity and enables us to understand the importance of considering geoheritage in planning and management to promote sustainable development actions.ReferencesChiarle M, Geertsema M, Mortara G, Clague JJ. 2021. Relations between climate change and mass movement: Perspectives from the Canadian Cordillera and the European Alps. Global and Planetary Change 202: 103499;Savi S, Comiti F, Strecker MR. 2021. Pronounced increase in slope instability linked to global warming: A case study from the eastern European Alps. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 46 : 1328–1347. DOI: 10.1002/ESP.5
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".