GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Scuba Diving, Radioactive Contamination
Document Summary
Economic and social structures can impact the environment by degrading and depleting natural resources, which effects ecological functions. Fukushima radiation leakage (radioactive contamination in pacific ocean), Society: a group of humans that co-exist and relate to one another through policies, culture and institution that govern good behavior. A way of ordering people and relationships between people. Society can"t function without environment and neither can economy. Tourism is an economic activity that relies on the environment. How humans have impacted the environment through tourism: Ruin environmental resource on which the tourism was based on, examples: Beach party garbage affecting host populations (societal and environmental impacts) Cruise ship (water pollution and air pollution) Everest, highest junkyard in world (tourists leave litter: started as destination that was not for mass tourism and over time it has become just that and the destination isn"t equip to be that. Diving activities (equipment damages the coral affecting the fish population)
