Date of Award
Spring 6-29-2014
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of arts (BA)
Department
Global Honors
First Advisor
Anne Taufen Wessells
Abstract
Shoreline Degradation is an economically important issue, which damages coastal tourism economies, and causes shifts in flows of tourist capital. Shifts in flows of tourist capital have the potential to cause shifts in economic power relationships between nations. Governments and planning agencies should acknowledge the inherent dependence of coastal tourism economies on shoreline health and water quality, and conceptions framing the two issues as dichotomous are destructive – causing urban decisions to be made as if environmental and economic interests are mutually exclusive. It is important that such perceptions shift in order to maintain healthy coastal economies. Additionally, the socio- economic impacts of poorly planned and managed tourism industries need to be recognized, in the knowledge that broader economic health of a state or nation is not a definitive indicator of quality of life of residents of the immediate host population in the tourism community.
Recommended Citation
Brockamp, Alexa, "Global Economic Impacts of Shoreline Degradation: A Socioeconomic Analysis" (2014). Global Honors Theses. 14.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/gh_theses/14
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