Planificación sostenible de sitios turísticos costeros: indicadores de flujos de materiales y territorio para una herramienta de ayuda a la decisión
- Autores: María de las Nieves Suárez Sánchez
- Directores de la Tesis: Albert Cuchí i Burgos (dir. tes.), Joaquím Lloveras i Macià (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2015
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Domènec Cucurull Descàrrega (presid.), Francesc Romagosa Casals (secret.), Jaume Avellaneda Díaz-Grande (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
The general objective of this thesis is to improve the quality of a certain Sustainability Objectives (OS) and Material Flows Indicators (IFM) to propose a set of Sustainability Indicators for the Sustainable Planning of coastal tourist destinations, through a systemic methodological process structured in 8 chapters: Chapter II elaborates on tourism itself and on the paradigm of sustainable development. The term Sustainable Tourism is an updated definition of Sustainable Tourism by the UNWTO (1993). The knowledge of the institutional debate of the strategies for sustainable development, and the discussion with experts in sustainable tourism and urban sustainability inside the doctorate group (focus group), made possible in Chapter III to update and improve the quality of the OS by stating 4 imperative ones, from which the "To change the patterns of production and consumption of material resources" was taken as a starting point for the proposals in this thesis given that reviewing and improving their resource management models would guarantee the closing of the material cycles in the technical processes in order to maintain and increase the utility value of touristic appeal, that the landscape is. In Chapters IV and V a case study for Alcossebre a town on the Mediterranean coast in the Valencian Community is chosen. This place is an example of the tourist model of sun and beach. It was characterized to know about its territorial problems, the dynamics of material resources and the relationships of the users with the territory and resources. Territorially speaking it is an urban dispersed model. A SWOT analysis, elicits the potential and limitations of the place as a tourist destination as well as the contributions of the population in regard to their perception towards the presence of tourism in it. Through a face-to-face survey. The results show that the population weights tourism as a generator of economic benefits and minimizes their potential environmental impacts. A model of sustainable resource management involves designing reliable indicators for decision-making and to know about their results over time. The indicators report how the technical processes are being carried out and alert when values are moving away from the desirable parameters. In Chapter VI, the instruments to conceptualize and design the indicators sets (organizational models and scientific approaches) are studied. The resulting indicators allow the outlining of a first IFM set (water, energy and waste) and Territory for tourist use, which is enriched with the results from the case study. The suggested set is evaluated in Chapter VII through the discussion in the focus group by weighting the criteria for the design of indicators. This would be the first round of the Delphi survey where 26 experts would seek consensus on the results obtained during this research, and where they would give recommendations and corrections to refine the final result. In Chapter VIII, the conclusions and contributions from this work based on the discussion of the hypotheses and specific objectives set in Chapter I are presented, namely: A set of sustainability indicators relative to the material flows and to the territory for tourism use was validated through a Delphi survey and via an innovative methodological process to derive it that was indeed a major contribution from this thesis. Also a main conclusion is given in the sense that the tourist phenomenon and its problems should be addressed by interdisciplinary professional teams for decision-making and that indicators of materials flows and territory are reliable to form a tool for decision support because of their universal and traversal character, but they must be complemented by other indicators of a social, economic and political nature to provide integrated answers within the paradigm of sustainability.
