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

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