Open AccessUnderstanding Tourist Beaches as Eco-Social Landscapes: Seeking Sustainability through Integration of Human and Non-Human Wealth Production
Author(s) -
Jeff Baldwin
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
etudes caribéennes/études caribéennes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1961-859X
pISSN - 1779-0980
DOI - 10.4000/etudescaribeennes.332
Subject(s) - tourism , sustainability , coral reef , reef , geography , yard , white (mutation) , production (economics) , recreation , shore , fishery , environmental planning , environmental resource management , ecology , archaeology , environmental science , economics , macroeconomics , biology , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , gene
Now coral reefs are not merely pretty, ...of much greater consequence is their vital importance of protecting our shores, this may not be generally realised. We had a nice example of this in Barbados recently when a certain hotel, in order to improve its beach facilities, bulldozed a certain piece of inshore reef to make a “white hole” for bathing. Although the area removed was perhaps only 20 x 30 yards, the consequent change in wave action resulted not only in the removal of the..