Autor según el artículo: Serrano Giné D; Jurado Rota J; Pérez Albert M; Bonfill Cerveró C

Departamento: Geografia

Autor/es de la URV: Perez Albert, Maria Yolanda / SERRANO GINÉ, DAVID

Palabras clave: Tourism Spain Scenery Quality Public perceptions Portugal Management Geographic information system Crowdedness Costa Carrying capacity Caribbean coast Beach management Bci

Resumen: © 2018, © 2018 by American Association of Geographers. The aim of this article is to introduce the Beach Crowding Index (BCI), a procedure to assess the social carrying capacity of vulnerable beaches. The study uses the people at one time (PAOT) approach and data gathered weekly throughout the bathing season regarding the number of beachgoers in 100 m2 cells of the beach to assess how many beachgoers it can comfortably hold. The procedure is based on fieldwork, interviews with beachgoers, and geographic information system (GIS) analysis and has 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 variation between 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 that the BCI procedure can be used for a large number of applications.

Grupo de investigación: GRATET. Anàlisi Territorial i Estudis Turístics

Áreas temáticas: Geography, planning and development Geography Geografia i urbanisme Geografía Earth-surface processes Ciencias sociales Ciências ambientais

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 14679272

Direcció de correo del autor: myolanda.perez@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0003-1634-4986

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-19

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00330124.2017.1416300

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Professional Geographer. 70 (3): 412-422

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Serrano Giné D; Jurado Rota J; Pérez Albert M; Bonfill Cerveró C (2018). The Beach Crowding Index: A Tool for Assessing Social Carrying Capacity of Vulnerable Beaches. Professional Geographer, 70(3), 412-422. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2017.1416300

DOI del artículo: 10.1080/00330124.2017.1416300

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2018

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications