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Island Sustainability II.
ISBN:
9781845646196
Title:
Island Sustainability II.
Author:
Favro, S.
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Series:
WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment Ser. ; v.166

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment Ser.
Contents:
Cover -- Island Sustainability II -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Section 1: Planning and development -- Tangled up in blue: the Croatian islands and participatory development planning -- Design of a transportation system for workers in a Cuban resort area -- Section 2: Tourism impact and strategies -- Protected areas and tourism development on Croatian islands: coexistence or divergence? -- Solid waste from the hospitality industry in Cyprus -- The effects of chosen governmental financial policy measures aimed at Croatian islands' economic sustainability enhancement with special stress on tourism -- A qualified reading of the impact of tourism on island areas: the role of local populations in visits to tourist locations and perception of their environmental quality -- Criteria for planning sustainable tourism development zones in coastal regions: case study of Croatia -- Social tourism carrying capacity in Kampung Kilim, World Geopark, Langkawi -- Integrating small island sustainability -- System concept of experience in nautical tourism -- Section 3: Socio-economic issues -- Development and preservation of tourist resources: example of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan -- Proposal of socio-economic model of development of small, periodically inhabited and uninhabited Croatian islands -- Section 4: Infrastructure -- Osmussaar: the rise and fall of an island -- Development and infrastructure of the Federated States of Micronesia -- Effects of constructing a new airport on Ishigaki Island -- The beach degradation and sustainable management of the sandy coast: the Yilan coast of Northeastern Taiwan -- Using sea bed roughness as a wave energy dissipater -- Author index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
Southampton :

WIT Press,

2012.

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