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 5
... protected by humans in an array of protected landscape categories . Protected areas are any region of land and / or sea that have legal measures limiting the use of the wildlife within that area ( McNeely et al . , 1990 ) . These ...
... protected by humans in an array of protected landscape categories . Protected areas are any region of land and / or sea that have legal measures limiting the use of the wildlife within that area ( McNeely et al . , 1990 ) . These ...
Page 188
... protected has been established since 1982 ( McNeely et al . , 1994 ) . Interestingly , Sub - Saharan Africa , currently the focus of extraordinarily high levels of wildlife tourism , had almost half of its current protected area system ...
... protected has been established since 1982 ( McNeely et al . , 1994 ) . Interestingly , Sub - Saharan Africa , currently the focus of extraordinarily high levels of wildlife tourism , had almost half of its current protected area system ...
Page 192
... protected . Including all types of terrestrial protected areas – nature reserves , Aboriginal sites , wilderness areas , state recreation areas as well as national parks - places 7.8 % of Australia's land mass in protected areas ...
... protected . Including all types of terrestrial protected areas – nature reserves , Aboriginal sites , wilderness areas , state recreation areas as well as national parks - places 7.8 % of Australia's land mass in protected areas ...
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