Natural Area Tourism: Ecology, Impacts, and ManagementChannel View Publications, 2002 - 340 pages The book covers all facets of tourism in natural areas. The book is underpinned by a strong foundation of environmental understanding. It then describes the range of impacts, which occur when tourism takes place in the natural environment and illustrates how managers can plan, develop and appropriately manage tourism developments in natural areas. Finally, the book addresses ongoing management concerns such as monitoring environmental change and the need to introduce appropriate management strategies. |
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... impact . A global view has been taken but many examples are drawn from the large database of research that has been carried out in the USA . For further details of methodology , assessment and the study of specific user impacts the ...
... impact . A global view has been taken but many examples are drawn from the large database of research that has been carried out in the USA . For further details of methodology , assessment and the study of specific user impacts the ...
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... impacts The problem of cumulative environmental impacts lies in a number of different smaller impacts which when combined result in a much larger and significant impact situation . An example from natural area tourism , say in the case ...
... impacts The problem of cumulative environmental impacts lies in a number of different smaller impacts which when combined result in a much larger and significant impact situation . An example from natural area tourism , say in the case ...
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... impact on the visitor expe- rience ( Morin et al . , 1997 ) . Continuing and growing impacts in natural areas fuelled research on carrying capacity as a way of helping make decisions about controlling impacts . By the early 1980s , more ...
... impact on the visitor expe- rience ( Morin et al . , 1997 ) . Continuing and growing impacts in natural areas fuelled research on carrying capacity as a way of helping make decisions about controlling impacts . By the early 1980s , more ...
Contents
Spectrum of recreation opportunities | 22 |
The Ecological Perspective | 24 |
xi | 65 |
Copyright | |
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Natural Area Tourism: Ecology, Impacts, and Management David Newsome,Susan A. Moore,Ross Kingston Dowling No preview available - 2002 |
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