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  • Carrying Capacity: An Uncomfortable Truth

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    Brown, Terry
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    Brown, Terry J.
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    The concept of carrying capacity and its relevance as a visitor management tool has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. However, it is an uncomfortable truth that in popular protected areas the numbers and behaviours of visitors need to be controlled if conservation and experience values are to be sustained into the future. This paper summarises the recent critique of carrying capacity and introduces a new Australian visitor management framework developed by Queensland Parks and Wildlife for addressing capacity issues in protected areas. The Sustainable Visitor Capacity (SVC) methodology is a collaborative, ...
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    The concept of carrying capacity and its relevance as a visitor management tool has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. However, it is an uncomfortable truth that in popular protected areas the numbers and behaviours of visitors need to be controlled if conservation and experience values are to be sustained into the future. This paper summarises the recent critique of carrying capacity and introduces a new Australian visitor management framework developed by Queensland Parks and Wildlife for addressing capacity issues in protected areas. The Sustainable Visitor Capacity (SVC) methodology is a collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach to assessing visitor sites for landscape quality, values and impacts so that these may be linked to requirements for more effectively managing visitor engagement with the resource. Outputs inform infrastructure and education needs, visitor use patterns, desired behaviours and appropriate visitor numbers.
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    Conference Title
    Australian Protected Areas Congress 2008: Protected Areas in the Century of Change
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    http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/services_resources/item_details.php?item_id=201767
    Copyright Statement
    © 2009 Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management. The attached file is posted here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher, for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the conference's website or contact the authors.
    Subject
    Tourism Management
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/27268
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