week7 - biodiversity and tourism

pdf of the powerpoint presentation (week 7)

How can tourism be made compatible with biodiversity conservation? What are the benefits for tourism of biodiversity conservation? What are the attitudes of tourists towards biodiversity? Is botanical collecting a threat to endangered plant species?

• Harald Hasler & Joerg A. Ott (2008) Diving down the reefs? Intensive diving tourism threatens the reefs of the northern Red Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56: 1788-1794 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2008.06.002
• Martin Mueller & Hubert Job (2009) Managing natural disturbance in protected areas: tourists’ attitude towards the bark beetle in a German national park. Biological Conservation, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2008.10.037
• Jasper Schipperijn, Ola Ekholm, Ulrika K. Stigsdotter, Mette Toftager, Peter Bentsen, Finn Kamper-Jørgensen & Thomas B. Randrup (2010) Factors influencing the use of green space: results from a Danish national representative survey. Landscape and Urban Planning, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.12.010
• Dominik Thiel, Susanne Jenni-Eiermann, Veronika Braunisch, Rupert Palme & Lukas Jenni (2008) Ski tourism affects habitat use and evokes a physiological stress response in capercaillie
• Tetrao urogallus: a new methodological approach. Journal of Applied Ecology, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01465.x

links

• David MacKay (2008) Sustainable Energy http://www.withouthotair.com/
• Foundation for the Protection of the Landscape (Switzerland)
• Tourism and Biodiversity Fund (IUCN Netherlands)
• Tourism for Development and Nature Conservation (CBD)

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