Sustainable Geo-Resources for Tourism and Recreation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2019) | Viewed by 14295
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tourism impacts; environment; sustainability; environmental impact assessment; sustainable development; governance; environmental management; natural resource management; land use planning; environment protection; society and environment; wilderness
Interests: tourism and human mobility; regional development and social/green marketing; human dimensions of global environmental change and conservation; environmental history, especially national park history & wilderness conservation; the use of tourism as an economic development and conservation mechanism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Travelling and practicing recreational and leisure activities generally leads to the exploitation of, and competition with, geo-resources. The term “geo-resources” refers to all geological resources that are used by humankind: groundwater, mineral resources, energy production, underground space for construction and storage, and the surface geology and landscape. Groundwater is extremely significant for water supplies around the world. Mineral resources include not just metals but also consist of salt and aggregates that are essential for building and infrastructure construction, while geo-energy includes fossil fuels, uranium, lithium, and geo-thermal energy. Underground space is becoming important for construction and storage in many parts of the world, including transport infrastructure developments, and surface geology and geomorphology have become integral to geo-tourism as well as constraining or enabling tourism development.
Most geo-resources, especially raw materials, are inherently non-renewable resources. Therefore, their relative sustainability is an important component of wider thinking about natural resource conservation and use. Travelers are, for example, heavy users of water and energy, while a great deal of land is occupied by hotels, restaurants, and tourist activities. Therefore, in an era of immense growth in tourism and recreation, the sustainable use of geo-resources for tourism and recreation is of vital importance.
The use of geo-resources in general can also lead to conflict with tourism and recreation; however, geo-resources can also be attractions in and of themselves. Utilizing hydro power can, for example, make waterfalls disappear or diminish, while information centers at geothermal power plants can become popular places for travelers to visit due to their educational component and influence attitudes towards renewable energy production. The Special Issue therefore responds to the need for a critical review of the challenges of the sustainable utilization of geo-resources in tourism and recreation, as well as the sustainable management of the relationship between tourism and recreation and geo-resource exploitation in general.
Prof. Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir
Prof. C. Michael Hall
Guest Editors
Keywords
- Energy production
- Groundwater use
- Geo-tourism
- Speleology
- Sustainable caving
- Mining
- Land use
- Geomorphology
- Underground space
- Geo-resource competition
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