GEOG 3490 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Notes.docx
8 Apr 2015
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Chapter 4 - tourism, the environment and economics: tourism as a means of wealth creation is reliant upon the use of natural resources. Utility : this system fails to take into account the rate of depletion of natural resources, the effects of pollution and resources not under private ownership (i. e. the atmosphere and ocean). 2nd law; when resources processed, the amount of useless energy (entropy) increases: see box 4. 2 (pg. 105) for a summary of criticisms of the conventional approach to the environ. Accounting (seea) and the environmentally adjusted net domestic product (edp) which attempt to include the costs of resource depletion and pollution: so far no international consensus. Tourism and growth: equation of growth with economic success also extends to tourism: united nations. 113): majority of tourist"s expenditure never arrives in the destination important to stop the leakages, encourage types of tourism that are integrated with community-based services and products (eco-tourism and nature-based).
