Climate-Informed Marine Spatial Planning: Supporting Mitigation and Resilience
This report presents an overview of climate-informed marine spatial planning (MSP), a participatory process that considers current and future climate risks and opportunities during design, planning, and implementation. Climate considerations in MSP harness the economic opportunities of the decarbonization pathway, while responding to the growing challenges of climate change through adaptive and integrated ocean management.
Consume-Less
Consume-Less aims to develop integrated sustainable energy, water and waste management strategies and to promote sustainable tourism models in Mediterranean cities. Six pilot areas are involved: Gozo, Vélez-Málaga, Saranda, Ragusa, Realmonte and Naxos.
Optimal Value Framework for Destinations
The Optimal Value Framework is a strategic approach that can be used to help destination stakeholders work together to understand and optimize the value of tourism for their community, agree on more balanced measures of success, and prioritize the impact areas most important for them to manage carefully and resource sufficiently. The framework helps identify […]
DestiMED
DestiMED brings together 13 protected areas to collectively develop, manage and promote ecotourism in the Mediterranean Basin.
Geoheritage Tool-Kit
The Geoheritage Tool-kit is a method, or series of steps, that has been developed to enable a geoheritage practitioner to systematically identify and categorise areas, geosites, or geological features of geoheritage significance at all scales (from mountain to microscale), to allocate them to a conceptual category of geoheritage and scale of reference, and to assess […]
Interagency Visitor Use Management Council
Six federal agencies—the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Park Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—collaborate on the Interagency Visitor Use Management Council. Council collaboration is designed to increase awareness of and commitment to proactive, professional, and science-based visitor use management on federally-managed […]
The Ecotourism Master Class Series
The master class program has been developed to offer a practical training and skills development opportunity for tourism business leaders, conservation and development professionals, and other industry stakeholders engaged in tourism and community development. An online learning series on sustainable tourism, including marketing, development, interpretation, education and development and management criteria. Each course is a […]
Alter Eco Plus
A project that includes alternative tourist strategies to enhance the local sustainable development of tourism by promoting Mediterranean identity. Alter Eco Plus will support “mainstreaming processes” to improve public policies related to tourism management. The starting point is the “Carrying Capacity Limit” calculation tool, a fully operational and functional tool/methodology, which will support the decision-making […]
Job Quality and Work Engagement in the Cruise Industry
This study reviews the working conditions in the emerging cruise industry by using a holistic and systematic approach, as well as the effects on work engagement of two groups of clearly differentiated employees, namely, officers and nonofficer employees. Our sample comprised 353 cruise workers. Regression analysis confirmed the research purposes of this study, that is, […]
Economic Contribution for Ocean Recreation in Florida Keys
Understanding the economic value of marine sanctuaries such as the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) is important to justify public and private investments and to provide information to support management activities and understand their role in the nation’s blue economy. Very few studies have employed economic contribution analysis in examining economic value, even though […]