A GEOPARK IN NE MEXICO: A PROPOSAL INTO THE BIG HISTORY OF THE SOCIAL CONGLOMERATE
The rich heritage of landscape, rock, fossil and mineral sites from the HPA can mark a shift from partly being World Heritage Site into a Geopark (UNESCO; Division of Earth Sciences). The Geopark concept aims for education and preservation of features with aesthetic and historical importance; which must be sustained on the Future of Geological Sciences leading holistic and transdisciplinary initiatives for the citizenry scientific curriculum.
The actual political state of right and cultural empowering in Mexico has been altered with actions affecting the social development of national identity. To accomplish a Geopark in Mexico will commemorate the nationalization of heritage, in turn reflected as a civic value on the national dignity by strengthening our cultural and educational identity.
A Geopark is more than an autonomous unit promoted by man; it is part of an integral arranged grid of natural sites favored by Earth’s secularity. The true value of a Geopark is its evolving maturity manifested on the value of a site with peculiar geological diversity with a defined geological record. The structure and model of a defined geological record is the build up for terranes. Geoparks shall not be based upon the geometrization of national states, but by the geological terrane distribution and characteristics.
Once understood the Earth’s space–time processes and the rules that govern the assemblage of geological sites and communities, a new dimension will emerge for the critique and expansion of practical considerations for planning, design, and conservation of a Geopark. This will ensure a sustainable management in equilibrium with the development of the social–economical conglomerate.
A Geopark is an example that threshold into efficiency with the sharing and communication for learning to appreciate nature. It contributes for a more general meaning as a tool to support Big History. The enlighting of knowledge and the scientific curriculum of geological unique and fragile features can counteract a social problem with the decline of the national identity.