Litter impacts on scenery and tourism on the Colombian north Caribbean coast
This paper provides the location, scenery and litter evaluation of 35 Colombian Caribbean beaches (9 remote, 9 village, 14 urban and 3 resort). Four litter grades were found. A: excellent (5); B: good (8); C: fair (19) and D: poor (3). A Decision Value parameter (D), for scenery gave: Class I - extr...
- Autores:
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Williams, Allan Thomas
Rangel Buitrago, Nelson Guillermo
Anfuso, Giorgio
Cervantes, Omar
Botero Saltaren, Camilo
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2016
- Institución:
- Corporación Universidad de la Costa
- Repositorio:
- REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/4212
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/11323/4212
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
- Palabra clave:
- Beach management
Colombia
Litter
Scenery
Tourism
Gestion de playa
Colombia
Camada
Paisaje
Turismo
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
| Summary: | This paper provides the location, scenery and litter evaluation of 35 Colombian Caribbean beaches (9 remote, 9 village, 14 urban and 3 resort). Four litter grades were found. A: excellent (5); B: good (8); C: fair (19) and D: poor (3). A Decision Value parameter (D), for scenery gave: Class I - extremely attractive/natural, D > 0.85, 6 sites; Class II - attractive/natural sites, D = 0.85 -0.65, 2 sites; Class III - mainly natural sites, few outstanding features, D = 0.65-0.4, 1 site; Class IV - mainly unattractive sites, D = 0.4 to zero, 6 sites; Class V - very unattractive sites, D = <0, 20 sites. Litter amounts placed most beaches into a poor scenic category and many scenic beaches could jump a grade by means of clean-ups. A graphic methodology highlighted beaches with contradictory results for litter/scenic grades. Tourists abhor littered beaches and clean-ups would improve scenery score |
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