Abstract
Khnefiss National Park has a very unique advantage of presenting three landscape morphologies of high quality: the coastal band, where the sea, dunes and cliffs mix; the lagoon zone, with its multiple interlacing water, algae and sand; and the vast desert, with its regs, hamadas, krebs, and dune extensions. It is unique and original at the world level for a protected area to retain in a single perimeter these three major ecosystems, which therefore gives this national park an exceptional quality. Khnefiss national park faces numerous natural, human-induced, institutional, organizational, and legal constraints. Hence, there is a need for a practical tool that would reconcile the imperatives of conservation, the demands of the local population, and tourism, and at the same time positively address the constraints that hamper the management of this geosite. Indeed, we will highlight a reflection that aims at clarifying the sense of this new trajectory in which Morocco is positioned in terms of interest development of geological heritage, the emergence of consumption of natural assets, and potentialities phenomenon according to regions. Therefore, all actions are based on values of citizenship, participative, responsibility, ethicality, and fairness. Indeed, the geosites have small to large scale characteristics (from ten meters to more than 10 km). The geosite inventory is based on the geoconservation strategy. Qualitative and quantitative assessments were carried out on the basis of geoheritage values of international significance. Thene, geoconservation efforts should be made in all these geosites for many reasons, such as valorization of academic research, preservation of natural resources, and promotion of geotourism in Khnefiss national park.
Highlights
Morocco has adopted a new approach to development that integrates the environmental component, the rationalisation of natural resources, the measures of poverty reduction, and the appropriate social and spatial distribution of wealth according to an advanced regionalisation plan [1].The issue of geotourism has become a recent and pressing concept in the government’s 2020 vision for tourism as it has recently been demonstrated that it represents a real factor of sustainable development [2]
Tourist activities have a direct impact on both local population and natural landscape; a better match between men and biosphere has a good synchronization according to the tourist context and the offer of specific products to each region
The site is located in the northern part of the “Tarfaya-Laayoune Coastal Basin” (Figure 2), bordered to the North by the Anti-Atlas, to the South by the Mauritanide Belt and to the East by the dorsale of Reguibat
Summary
Morocco has adopted a new approach to development that integrates the environmental component, the rationalisation of natural resources, the measures of poverty reduction, and the appropriate social and spatial distribution of wealth according to an advanced regionalisation plan [1].The issue of geotourism has become a recent and pressing concept in the government’s 2020 vision for tourism as it has recently been demonstrated that it represents a real factor of sustainable development [2]. Morocco has adopted a new approach to development that integrates the environmental component, the rationalisation of natural resources, the measures of poverty reduction, and the appropriate social and spatial distribution of wealth according to an advanced regionalisation plan [1]. Tourist activities have a direct impact on both local population and natural landscape; a better match between men and biosphere has a good synchronization according to the tourist context and the offer of specific products to each region. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7109; doi:10.3390/su12177109 www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability quaternary. With this drilling data, the dominant formations are as follows: Secondary formations of marl, sandstone, and limestone from the upper Jurassic to the upper
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