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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Page 156
... applied within a single natural area such as a national park or to a group of protected areas , for example , as a means of classifying national parks across a region ( Watson , 1997 ) . Recreation / Tourism Planning Frameworks Over the ...
... applied within a single natural area such as a national park or to a group of protected areas , for example , as a means of classifying national parks across a region ( Watson , 1997 ) . Recreation / Tourism Planning Frameworks Over the ...
Page 160
... applied to recreation planning in the United States , Australia and New Zealand . By the early 1980s , it was being applied to about 30 % of the United States ' land area . In Australia , ROS has been applied to protected areas in five ...
... applied to recreation planning in the United States , Australia and New Zealand . By the early 1980s , it was being applied to about 30 % of the United States ' land area . In Australia , ROS has been applied to protected areas in five ...
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... applied across multiple land tenures although it does not explicitly cater for opportunity classes . Both LAC and VIM focus on site - level impacts so their application has tended towards individual protected areas . VIM is most often ...
... applied across multiple land tenures although it does not explicitly cater for opportunity classes . Both LAC and VIM focus on site - level impacts so their application has tended towards individual protected areas . VIM is most often ...
Contents
Approaches to nature | 4 |
Natural Area Tourism | 10 |
Further Reading | 23 |
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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activities animals applied approach assessment Banff National Park Barrier Reef behaviour birds Bob Marshall Wilderness camping campsites carrying capacity cave centre chapter communities coral reef damage disturbance diversity ecological ecosystems ecotourism effects environmental impacts Environmental Management erosion example experience facilities Forest Service fynbos groups habitat Hammitt & Cole human increased indicators interpretation Island Kakadu Kakadu National Park Kruger National Park Land Management landscape Leung levels Limits of Acceptable located management actions management strategies Marion McArthur measure ment minimise monitoring programme Mountains National Park natural area tourism natural environment off-road vehicles opportunity classes organisations planning frameworks plants problems protected areas rainforest Ramsar Convention reduce Research reserves resource river roads social soil species stakeholders standards Stankey survey techniques tion tourism development trampling trees users vegetation visitor impacts visitor management visitor monitoring visitor numbers Warren National Park Western Australia wilderness areas wildlife zone