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Title: Ecotourism environments


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Ecotourism environments
  • What are the components of a public protected
    area?
  • An area of land and/or sea
  • Especially dedicated to the protection and
    maintenance of biological diversity (cultural
    resources)
  • Managed through legal or other effective means
  • Managed by a public authority
  • What are paper parks?

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What is so important about public protected
areas?
  • THE dominant setting for ecotourism
  • Natural environments
  • High public profile (http//whc.unesco.org/)
  • Structural suitability to ecotourism
  • Investment in infrastructure and services
  • Convergence between protected and natural
    landscapes

3
IUCN Classification System
  • I -gt wilderness area for scientific and research
    purposes
  • V -gt cultural natural environment exist in a
    complementary relationship

4
The 6 IUCN Protected Area Management Categories
  •  
  • Category Ia Strict Nature Reserve protected area
    managed mainly for science
  • Category Ib Wilderness Area protected area
    managed mainly for wilderness protection
  • Category II National Park protected area managed
    mainly for ecosystem protection and recreation
  • Category III Natural Monument protected area
    managed mainly for conservation of specific
    natural features
  • Category IV Habitat/Species Management Area
    protected area managed mainly for conservation
    through management intervention
  • Category V Protected Landscape/Seascape
    protected area managed mainly for
    landscape/seascape conservation and recreation
  • Category VI Managed Resource Protected Area
    protected area managed mainly for the sustainable
    use of natural ecosystems

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Lebanons protected areas
  • National Designations
  • Bird Reserve 1 Bentael National Park
  • Forest Reserve 5 Ain Zhalta Arz Tannourine
    Barouk Arz el Rab Jabal el Qaraqif
  • National Park 5 Ammiq Barouk Mashgara (II)
    Qaraoun Lake Terbol
  • Other Area 1 Chali Cedar Forest
  • Private Protected Area 3 Baabda Bentael Khallet
    Khazen Farm
  • Protection/Protected Zone 2 Arz Bcharre
    Qannoubine
  • Reserve 12 Bass Batroun Hbeline Horsh Ehden
    Jabal Turbol Jaftalak Ras el-ain
    Kammoua Karm Chbat Kfar Zabed
    Kherbet Slim Palm Island Saissouk
  • International Conventions and Programmes
  • Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar) 4
  • World Heritage Convention 5
  • UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve 1
  • Barcelona Convention 1

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Marine Protected Areas
  • 1300 MPA lt 1 of the worlds marine space
  • Only one protected area along Lebanon's 225
    kilometers coastline
  • Palm Islands - 1992, 5km2, IUCN Category IV

10
Distribution of ecotourists w/in protected areas
  • 95-5 rule
  • 95 of all visits tend to be confined to 5 of
    the area
  • Where?
  • Heavily developed sites sacrificial space
  • Hinterland of the sites
  • Transportation corridors

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Issues associated with spatial and temporal
concentration
  • Higher visitation levels
  • Sites carrying capacity
  • Fixed carrying capacity
  • When?
  • If D gt K then ?
  • Fluid carrying capacity
  • Increase capacity how?

12
Modified spaces
  • Agricultural lands
  • Urban space
  • Artificial wetlands
  • Artificial reefs
  • Degraded or devastated space

13
Next section ecotourism planning for protected
areas
  • Read that section in the booklet by October 28
  • Read the ecotourist trap by October 28
  • Summary article due October 30
  • Homework 2 and 3 due October 30
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