Review article

https://doi.org/10.20867/thm.5.1-2.3

METHODOLOGICAL BACKGROUNDS OF ESTIMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES CAUSED BY TOURISM

Mladen Črnjar ; Regional Planning and Environmental Protection Department, Rijeka, Croatia
Miro Šverko ; Regional Planning and Environmental Protection Department, Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

Within conditions of increased environmental degradation caused by growth of production, transport, population and tourist activities, balance of the
environment has deteriorated.
In this essay we analyse typology of environmental damages caused by tourism - air, sea, water and soil pollution, noise and waste, traffic congestion, spatial deviations, deteriorating of cultural-historical values, loss of domicile population, increasing of crime, etc.
The following methods of estimation of environmental damages caused by tourism have been specially presented: economic (monetary) estimations,
indirect assessment, global evaluations, as well as possibilities of internalization of external environmental costs.

Keywords

environmental damages caused by tourism; methods of environmental damages estimations; tourism

Hrčak ID:

181921

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/181921

Publication date:

30.12.1999.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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