Autor según el artículo: Serrano Giné, D.; Jurado Rota, J.; Pérez Albert, Y.; Bonfill Cerveró, C.
Departamento: Geografia
Autor/es de la URV: SERRANO GINÉ, DAVID; Jurado Rota, J.; PEREZ ALBERT, MARIA YOLANDA; Bonfill Cerveró, C.
Palabras clave: beach management carrying capacity geographic information systems
Resumen: 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.
Grupo de investigación: GRATET. Anàlisi Territorial i Estudis Turístics
Áreas temáticas: Geografia Geografía Geography
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 0033-0124
Identificador del autor: 0000-0003-1676-7110; ; 0000-0003-1634-4986;
Página final: 422
Fecha de alta del registro: 2018-09-13
Volumen de revista: 70
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00330124.2017.1416300?journalCode=rtpg20
Programa de financiación: plan; SPATIUM; CSO2014-52721-P
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
DOI del artículo: 10.1080/00330124.2017.1416300
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2018
Página inicial: 412
Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article
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