MTM4E06
ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY AND TOURISM
Objectives:
Objectives- A clean and hygienic environment is essential pre-requisite for tourist destination if it wants to promote and develop tourism. The MTM students should understand the intimate relation environment and tourism. This course explores the basic knowledge of environment and ecology, concept of carrying capacity, environmental problems such as changing climate, various types of pollution and global warming. The students should know about outcomes of several environmental conferences held in India and UNO. Now ecotourism is getting prime focus among all types of tourism.
Pedagogy: Lectures, Group Discussion, Presentations, Practical, Case studies, Business Games.
Unit-I
Understanding various terms used in environment, e.g. environment, ecology, ecosystem, biodiversity hot spots, ecotourism. Man, environment relationship in deference stages of development, Resources for ecotourism in India. Types of pollution such as air, water, land, noise, radio activity, visual etc., ozone depletion, greenhouse effect, global warming. Impacts of these on tourism.
Unit-II
Concept of tourism carrying capacity: bio- physical, social, cultural. Infrastructural methods to measure carrying capacity, Environment impact assessment. Need for EIA measurement in tourism projects.
Unit-III
Major tourism impacts of tourism on environment; air, water, land, sound, river, visual, appearance, coral reefs and mangroves, nature vegetation and wildlife. Tourism impacts on cultural environment.
Unit-IV
Acts and Laws (of India) related with tourism and environment e.g. air, water, sound acts, wildlife, forest environment acts etc. Ecotourism policy of Govt. of India. World conference on environment e.g. Rio Summit, Kyoto Protocol, Bali Summit etc. outcome of these conferences.
References:
1. Beaton, sue, Ecotourism: A Practical Guide for rural Communities; Landlines Press, Landon, 1988
2. Wearing, Stephen, Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentials, and Possibility; Published by Butterwort-Heinemann, London, 1999
3. Luck, Michael and Tourist Kirstges, Global Ecotourism Polices and Case Studies: Perspectives and Constraints ‘, Channel View Publications, London.2003
4. Honey, Martha, Ecotourism and Certification: Setting Standards in Practice ‘, Island Press, London. 2002
5. Kreg Lindberg, Donald E. Hawkins, Megan Epler Wood,’ Ecotourism: A Guide for Planners and Managers’, Ecotourism Society, Western London.1993
6. Bulbeck, Chilla, ‘Facing the Wild: Ecotourism, Conservation and Animal Encounters,’ Earthscan, London. 2005.
7. Sahu, C.’ Aspects of Tribal Studies, Sarup and Sons, New Delhi.2006
8. Sharma, B.D and Tej Kumari, Indian Wildlife: Threats and Preservation ‘, Anmol Publications, New Delhi,2002
9. Boniface, Brian G, and Chris Cooper, Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism Butterworth- Heinemann, London.2000
10. Mishra, Archana. ‘Environmental Studies, Systems and Solutions,’ Selective and Scientific Books, New Delhi .2005
11. Sharma, B.K., An Introduction to Environmental Laws’, Goel Publishing House, Meerut, 2001
12. U.N Reports on Environmental Conference
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