General approaches to assessing carrying capacity & its limits of acceptable change
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General approaches to assessing carrying capacity and its limits of acceptable change presentation is about the concept of carrying capacity, drawbacks of carrying capacity, establish criteria that affect capacity, carrying capacity in coastal tourism, guidelines for tourism carrying capacity in na...
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drawbacks of carrying capacity
establish criteria that affect capacity
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Introduction to Tourism
and Hospitality Studies
General Approaches to
Assessing Carrying Capacity
And its limits of acceptable
change
,1. THE CONCEPT OF CARRYING CAPACITY
- The term derives from ecological science indicate
the maximum population density for a given species in an
environment without degradation of that environment.
- In broadest sense, carrying capacity is a measure of
the natural and artificial limits to development beyond
which significant harm will occur.
- Carrying capacity is being used as a management
tool in land use planning, growth management, fisheries,
aquaculture, tourism, etc. to control their adverse
impacts.
- In coastal regions, carrying capacity can be used, for
example, to assess the effects of development on:
* natural factors such as groundwater supply or
wetland productivity.
* artificial factors such as sewage treatment,
roadway and bridge capacity for evacuation in case of
storm hazards.
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, - There is no standard ways of conducting carrying
capacity analyses and no universally accepted
guides to how to do it (American Planning
Association, 2001)
- Adapted to tourism management: Carrying
capacity is ability of a destination to
accommodate:
* the number of visitor
* the quality of the visitors' satisfaction. (WTO,
1981)
* tourism development (WTO, 1992)
without detrimentally affecting the environment
and its resources, or effecting a decline in visitor
satisfaction (WTO, 1992).
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