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: 2024-09-07
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
URL Documento de licencia: https://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
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2018
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
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