15 años hablando del Geoparque Mundial (2010-2025)

Abstract

The UNESCO Global Geopark Programme has promoted geoconservation, geotourism, and geoeducation as geoheritage practices within a broader effort to inscribe nature under international designations that privilege scholarly, aesthetic, and economic values. In doing so, it has advanced a discourse that selects and classifies human— and now also non— human— creations as global exponents of collective memory. This state— of— the— art review highlights the need to address an ontological dimension at the intersection of science and politics in Earth’s historical heritage narratives. It argues reframing geological conservation and sustainability not merely as technical or managerial goals, but as epistemic and political processes that shape how international public agendas are translated and implemented at the local scale.