Sustainable Tourism – promoting environmental public health
Learn sustainable tourism practices to promote environmental health in low-income countries and vulnerable ecosystems.
Learn sustainable tourism practices to promote environmental health in low-income countries and vulnerable ecosystems.
This course explores the environmental health and natural resource management challenges associated with rapid tourism growth in low-income countries. It focuses on sustainable tourism development in tropical and subtropical small island states, using Zanzibar as a case study. The course covers the impacts of tourism on marine environments, water resources, solid waste management, and mosquito control. It examines global trends in tourism, sustainability certification systems, and strategies for developing more sustainable tourism practices. The curriculum aligns with several UN Sustainable Development Goals, including good health and well-being, clean water and sanitation, and life below water. Through a combination of lectures, case studies, and expert insights, learners will gain a comprehensive understanding of the complexities and potential solutions for sustainable tourism development.
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What you'll learn
Understand the global trends in tourism and its environmental impacts
Explore strategies for developing sustainable tourism in low-income countries
Learn about sustainability certification systems for hotels and destinations
Examine the effects of tourism on freshwater resources and marine ecosystems
Understand the challenges of solid waste management in the tourism sector
Explore environmental management interventions for sustainable tourism
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This course includes:
3 Hours PreRecorded video
11 quizzes,1 assignment
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There are 3 modules in this course
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of sustainable tourism with a focus on promoting environmental public health in low-income countries and vulnerable ecosystems. The curriculum is divided into three main modules. The first module introduces global trends in tourism, its social and environmental impacts, and strategies for developing sustainable tourism, including certification systems. The second module focuses on water management, examining the tourism industry's impact on freshwater resources and marine ecosystems, with a particular emphasis on issues like saltwater intrusion. The final module addresses solid waste management in the tourism sector and explores environmental management interventions, such as mosquito control at resorts. Throughout the course, Zanzibar is used as a case study to illustrate the challenges and potential solutions in developing sustainable tourism practices in resource-limited settings.
Tourism and the global sustainability agenda
Module 1 · 4 Hours to complete
Tourism - a major consumer of freshwater and producer of waste water
Module 2 · 4 Hours to complete
Promoting the environment
Module 3 · 4 Hours to complete
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Leader in Global Environmental Health Research
Flemming Konradsen is a professor of international environmental health at the University of Copenhagen and the director of the Copenhagen School of Global Health. With over twenty years of experience in environmental and global health, his research focuses on critical areas such as water supply, sanitation, hygiene, acute pesticide poisoning, and vector-borne disease control across Asia, Africa, and Europe. His methodologies encompass epidemiology, qualitative studies, health promotion, and health systems analysis. Additionally, he plays a significant role in building research capacity in universities throughout Asia and Africa and has collaborated with various international organizations and NGOs.
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