GEO 802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tv Choice, Opportunity Cost, Cloud Forest
31 Jan 2013
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Sustainable tourism (defn. of un convention) meeting the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs. Development of tourism is done on cost of other sectors. Different beliefs of sustainability: oxymoron, anthropocentric. )economic factors too many tourist so demand for basic commodities is high so there is an increase the price of basic commodities. Airline industry is responsible for the greater amount of air pollution and its constant release of cfcs, co2, no2, etc. into the atmosphere. Destruction of bio diversity on from extreme activities of hunting, fishing and development (tourism promotes sport fishing) Input approach to sustainability are use of renewable resources like wild life and fishes or water should be in rate or amount that allow system in no time to replenish itself. Assimilative capacity of natural systems( if you keep growing garbage that is not bio-degrade then we will have an over accumulation which will cause environmental problems)
