GG294 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mount Everest, Ecological Footprint, Visual Pollution
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Human effects on the environment are inevitable. The quality of the environment, both natural and man-made, is essential to tourism. Ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er, touris(cid:373)(cid:859)s relatio(cid:374)ship (cid:449)ith the e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t is complex. The level of human activity an area can accommodate without the area deteriorating, the resident community being adversely affected or the quality of visitors experience declining. (middleton and hawkins-chamberlain, 1997) Physical-ecological component flora, wildlife: socio-demographic component human environment, any component of human environment social impact, cultural. What level of tourist activity will impact it socially and culturally: political-economic component what level of tourist activity. Dynamic nature of ecosystems makes it difficult to calculate. Difficult for us to understand when an ecosystem changing or is it touris(cid:373) that(cid:859)s (cid:272)ha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g it. It can be increased/decreased by management actions or human use: management can upset some of these impacts, management that can reduce this impact and ecological footprint.
