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 272
... Measures include organic horizon cover , organic horizon depth and degree of disturbance of litter and duff from site and control ; take 1 sample from each of the vegetation quadrats established to measure groundcover loss ...
... Measures include organic horizon cover , organic horizon depth and degree of disturbance of litter and duff from site and control ; take 1 sample from each of the vegetation quadrats established to measure groundcover loss ...
Page 275
... measure- ments at the site and an environmentally similar but undisturbed nearby site . Leung and Marion ( 1999c ) concluded that two aspects of impact , spatial extent ( areal measures ) and intensity ( percent measures ) , could be ...
... measure- ments at the site and an environmentally similar but undisturbed nearby site . Leung and Marion ( 1999c ) concluded that two aspects of impact , spatial extent ( areal measures ) and intensity ( percent measures ) , could be ...
Page 297
... measure of erosion ) , were weighted more heavily . The weighted ratings were then summed to give a summary impact score for each site . Half the campsites were identified as high to severely impacted . The multiple indicator measurement ...
... measure of erosion ) , were weighted more heavily . The weighted ratings were then summed to give a summary impact score for each site . Half the campsites were identified as high to severely impacted . The multiple indicator measurement ...
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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