Author, as appears in the article.: Serrano Giné, D.; Jurado Rota, J.; Pérez Albert, Y.; Bonfill Cerveró, C.
Department: Geografia
URV's Author/s: SERRANO GINÉ, DAVID; Jurado Rota, J.; PEREZ ALBERT, MARIA YOLANDA; Bonfill Cerveró, C.
Keywords: beach management carrying capacity geographic information systems
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to introduce the Beach Crowding Index (BCI), a procedure to assess
the social carrying capacity of vulnerable beaches. The study uses the PAOT (people at one
time) approach and data gathered weekly throughout the bathing season regarding the number
of beachgoers in 100m2cells of the beach to assess how many beachgoers it can
comfortablyhold. The procedureis based on field work, interviewswith beachgoers and GIS
analysis, andhas been tested on four beaches in protected areas on the Spanish Mediterranean
coast. On a scale from 0 to 4, minimum scores throughout the bathing season are 0.7 and
maximum 3.7, although results showed wide variationbetween the beaches, the section of the
beach and the time of day. This study suggests that determining the location of beachgoers
and collecting a long-term series of data is fundamental to assessing social carrying capacity,
and thatthe BCI procedure can be used in a large number of applications.
Research group: GRATET. Anàlisi Territorial i Estudis Turístics
Thematic Areas: Geografia Geografía Geography
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 0033-0124
Author identifier: 0000-0003-1676-7110; ; 0000-0003-1634-4986;
Last page: 422
Record's date: 2018-09-13
Journal volume: 70
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Funding program: plan; SPATIUM; CSO2014-52721-P
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2018
First page: 412
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article
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