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Carrying Capacity and Performance Assessment as Quantitative Tools to Assess the Sustainability of Coastal Tourism Sector
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This paper attempts to perform a sustainability assessment of coastal tourism in a region through quantitative measurement tools. Coastal tourism is one of the dominant economic activities in coastal areas, often susceptible to overexploitation through unregulated anthropogenic activities. Hence, it results in an immediate need to understand the impacts and devise strategies to ensure coastal sustainability. An objective understanding of the impacts of such anthropogenic activities demands the formulation of quantitative tools to measure the benefits and the impacts. Quantitative assessment of sustainability is a complex process as it involves tangible and intangible factors. The paper proposes a quantitative tool, performance assessment, which compares economic benefits incurred from coastal tourism with environmental and social impacts. It is derived from the Green Productivity Index. It attempts to measure the implications as monetary expenditure needed to mitigate the impacts. Carrying capacity assessment is another tool adopted to determine the thresholds for various thematic areas associated with coastal tourism. It also attempts to measure the Effective Real Carrying Capacity, which implies the volume of tourism an area can sustain with available physical, social and economic capacities. Action-oriented understanding is developed through contextually identified impacts and indicators. It helps to calculate the existing economic benefits and cost of impacts per tourist and hence determines the area’s sustainable loading capacity based on effective real-carrying capacity. These results can be further used to optimize the limiting factors and enhance tourism carrying capacity sustainably through planning interventions.
Carrying Capacity and Performance Assessment as Quantitative Tools to Assess the Sustainability of Coastal Tourism Sector
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5559-8973
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9997-2859
This paper attempts to perform a sustainability assessment of coastal tourism in a region through quantitative measurement tools. Coastal tourism is one of the dominant economic activities in coastal areas, often susceptible to overexploitation through unregulated anthropogenic activities. Hence, it results in an immediate need to understand the impacts and devise strategies to ensure coastal sustainability. An objective understanding of the impacts of such anthropogenic activities demands the formulation of quantitative tools to measure the benefits and the impacts. Quantitative assessment of sustainability is a complex process as it involves tangible and intangible factors. The paper proposes a quantitative tool, performance assessment, which compares economic benefits incurred from coastal tourism with environmental and social impacts. It is derived from the Green Productivity Index. It attempts to measure the implications as monetary expenditure needed to mitigate the impacts. Carrying capacity assessment is another tool adopted to determine the thresholds for various thematic areas associated with coastal tourism. It also attempts to measure the Effective Real Carrying Capacity, which implies the volume of tourism an area can sustain with available physical, social and economic capacities. Action-oriented understanding is developed through contextually identified impacts and indicators. It helps to calculate the existing economic benefits and cost of impacts per tourist and hence determines the area’s sustainable loading capacity based on effective real-carrying capacity. These results can be further used to optimize the limiting factors and enhance tourism carrying capacity sustainably through planning interventions.
Carrying Capacity and Performance Assessment as Quantitative Tools to Assess the Sustainability of Coastal Tourism Sector
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5559-8973
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9997-2859
This paper attempts to perform a sustainability assessment of coastal tourism in a region through quantitative measurement tools. Coastal tourism is one of the dominant economic activities in coastal areas, often susceptible to overexploitation through unregulated anthropogenic activities. Hence, it results in an immediate need to understand the impacts and devise strategies to ensure coastal sustainability. An objective understanding of the impacts of such anthropogenic activities demands the formulation of quantitative tools to measure the benefits and the impacts. Quantitative assessment of sustainability is a complex process as it involves tangible and intangible factors. The paper proposes a quantitative tool, performance assessment, which compares economic benefits incurred from coastal tourism with environmental and social impacts. It is derived from the Green Productivity Index. It attempts to measure the implications as monetary expenditure needed to mitigate the impacts. Carrying capacity assessment is another tool adopted to determine the thresholds for various thematic areas associated with coastal tourism. It also attempts to measure the Effective Real Carrying Capacity, which implies the volume of tourism an area can sustain with available physical, social and economic capacities. Action-oriented understanding is developed through contextually identified impacts and indicators. It helps to calculate the existing economic benefits and cost of impacts per tourist and hence determines the area’s sustainable loading capacity based on effective real-carrying capacity. These results can be further used to optimize the limiting factors and enhance tourism carrying capacity sustainably through planning interventions.
Carrying Capacity and Performance Assessment as Quantitative Tools to Assess the Sustainability of Coastal Tourism Sector
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Jana, Arnab (editor) / Banerji, Pradipta (editor) / Sethia, Riya (author) / Puthuvayi, Bimal (author)
2021-03-18
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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