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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainable-tourism
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课程名称：可持续旅游 – 促进环境公共健康 概述：本MOOC课程向学习者介绍了与国际旅游者快速增加对低收入国家带来的关键环境健康和自然资源管理挑战。由于这些国家的基础设施和监管能力通常有限，因此更容易受到此类发展带来的负面影响。课程将呈现经验和潜在途径，以发展更可持续的旅游形式。 该课程特别关注热带和亚热带小岛屿国家旅游发展的相关问题及潜力，突出这些开发对脆弱生态系统所带来的挑战。以赞比亚尔（Zanzibar）为例，探讨旅游发展如何导致海洋环境、固体废物管理、水资源和蚊虫控制等方面的压力增加。这些因素将作为影响的指示和未来改善的领域，以推动更可持续的旅游发展。通过案例分析，展示在低收入和资源贫乏环境中，旅游的巨大增长如何加剧当地人口的脆弱性。 课程内容与全球可持续发展目标的多个指标相关，尤其是： 目标3：“良好的健康与福祉” 目标6：“清洁水和卫生设施” 目标14：“水下生物” 目标17：“伙伴关系”。 因此，本课程是推动2017年国际可持续旅游年讨论和努力的延续。 课程将邀请来自哥本哈根大学、赞比亚尔州立大学、酒店行业代表以及国际可持续旅游特定领域专家的多元观点和专业知识。 课程大纲： 1. 旅游与全球可持续发展议程 - 本模块将介绍旅游的全球趋势及其社会和环境影响，同时讨论旨在帮助低收入国家发展更可持续旅游形式的政策和策略，包括酒店和目的地的可持续认证体系的角色。将重点讨论旅游对赞比亚尔的重要性及其对环境健康的影响。 2. 旅游 - 重要的淡水消费者和废水生产者 - 本模块强调热带和亚热带国家的酒店作为淡水的重要消费者和废水的主要生产者。这可能对海洋生态系统的健康和淡水资源管理产生影响，尤其是咸水入侵问题。将以赞比亚尔为案例，讨论支持更可持续水资源管理的新政策、技术和管理方法的潜力。 3. 促进环境 - 本模块将突出旅游业固体废物管理面临的一般挑战，并提供实例说明问题的范围。将讨论与赞比亚尔旅游业相关的固体废物管理不善所面临的障碍及其环境健康影响。同时介绍改善废物管理的政策和私营部门倡议，特别是针对度假村的蚊虫控制的环境管理干预措施，以展示如何发展更可持续的旅游业。
Name:Tourism and the global sustainability agenda
Description:This module will present the global trends in tourism and its social and environmental impacts. Policies and strategies aimed at developing a more sustainable form of tourism in low-income countries will be discussed, including the role of sustainability certification systems for hotels and destinations. The importance of tourism to Zanzibar and the environmental health impacts associated with the tourist sector on Zanzibar will be highlighted.
Name:Tourism - a major consumer of freshwater and producer of waste water
Description:This module will highlight the role of hotels, in low-income countries in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world, as significant consumers of freshwater and producers of wastewater. The module will discuss the impacts this may have on the health of the marine ecosystem and the management of the freshwater resources, especially the problem of saltwater intrusion. Zanzibar will be used as a case. The potential of introducing new policies, technologies and management approaches in support of a more sustainable management of water resources will be discussed.
Name:Promoting the environment
Description:The general challenges of managing solid waste generation by the tourist sector will be highlighted and examples provided to explain the scope of the problem. The extent and nature of the obstacles associated with poor solid waste management linked to the tourist sector on Zanzibar will be discussed focusing on the environmental health impacts of waste generation. Policies and private sector initiatives taken to improve waste management will be presented. In particular, environmental management interventions aimed at mosquito control at resorts will be highlighted as an example of how to develop a more sustainable tourist sector.
The MOOC introduces learners to key environmental health and natural resources management challenges associated with the rapid growth in international tourist arrivals into low-income countries. Since infrastructural and regulatory capacities in such countries are often limited they are more exposed to the negative implications of such development. The MOOC will present experiences and potential avenues to develop a more sustainable form of tourism. The Course particularly focuses on the problems and potentials of tourism development in small island states in tropical and sub-tropical settings and highlights the challenges of such development on vulnerable ecosystems. It also highlights how tourism development in Zanzibar results in increased pressure on its marine environment, solid waste management, water resources and control of mosquitoes. These factors will be used as tracers of impacts and areas for future improvement towards a more sustainable form of tourism. Zanzibar will be in focus during this course and used as a case in order to exemplify how a massive increase of Tourism in a low income and resource poor setting, can increase the vulnerability of the local population. The Course topics also relate to a number of targets under the global Sustainable Development Goals, especially: Goals 3: “good health and well-being” Goals 6: “clean water and sanitation” Goals 14: “life below water” Goals 17: “partnerships”. Thus, the Course is a continuation of the efforts and discussions raised as part of the 2017 international year of sustainable tourism. A diversity of perspectives and areas of expertise will be presented by researchers from the University of Copenhagen, State University of Zanzibar, representatives from the hotel sector and international experts in specific areas of sustainable tourism.
