Geosites Inventory in Liguria Region (Northern Italy): A Tool for Regional Geoconservation and Environmental Management

The Liguria Region in Northern Italy is characterized by a wide geological and geomorphological variety, encompassing an important and valuable geoheritage. The Ligurian regional law (L.R. 39/2009) protects and enhances geodiversity and geosites, establishing the Regional Inventory of Geosites; however, an approved official inventory is still lacking. In this work, a first reasoned inventory of 120 geosites is proposed for the Liguria Region on the basis of field surveys and literature review. A quantitative assessment of the value and the degradation risk of geosites has been carried out: the value assessment takes into account scientific, additional and potential-for-use values; the degradation risk assessment considers geosites’ fragility and vulnerability. The results, providing knowledge on the Ligurian geoheritage, can serve as the basis for the Regional Inventory of Geosites and can be useful tools for the implementation of any regional geoconservation strategy or environmental management plan.

Impacts on Environmental Components of the Proposed Liquefied Petroleum Gas Bottling and Distribution Plant at Dacope Khulna in Bangladesh

Impact identification is the first step in an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process, contributing to prediction, evaluation and mitigation of significant environmental impacts. It connects the project characteristics to baseline environmental information with the aim of ensuring that all significant impacts are taken into consideration. The study location was at Dacope Upazila of Khulna District in Bangladesh. A Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) bottling and distribution plant is going to set up by Energypac Power Generation Limited. The objective of the study was to identify the impacts on the major environmental components of the study area. The field observation, interviews of project proponent and community people, public consultation, laboratory analysis were the main activities of the study along with others. This study has done an appropriate analysis of baseline condition of the major environmental components of the study area, identified the impacts of the project on major environmental components and developed an environmental management plan for the LPG bottling and distribution plant. J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 11(1-2): 171-181 2018