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Recreational Uses of Coastal Areas

A Research Project of the Commission on the Coastal Environment, International Geographical Union

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Paolo Fabbri

    1. Department of Historical Disciplines, University of Bologna, Italy

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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 12)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Regional Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The recreational use and abuse of the coastline of Florida

      • R. W. G. Carter
      Pages 3-17

    3. Management strategies for coastal conservation in South Wales, U.K.

      • Allan T. Williams
      Pages 19-38

    4. Recreational uses and problems of Port Phillip Bay, Australia

      • Eric Bird, Peter Cullen
      Pages 39-51

    5. Recreation in the coastal areas of Singapore

      • P. P. Wong
      Pages 53-62

    6. The Azov Sea coast as a recreational area

      • V. A. Mamykina, Yuri P. Khrustalev
      Pages 63-68

    7. The influence of ethnicity on recreational uses of coastal areas in Guyana

      • V. Chris Lakhan
      Pages 69-81

    8. Recreational uses in the coastal zone of central Chile

      • Consuelo Castro, M. Inés Valenzuela
      Pages 83-87

    9. Recreational uses of Québec coastlines

      • Jean-Marie M. Dubois, Marc Chênevert
      Pages 89-99

  3. Coastal Recreation in Adverse Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Recreational use of the Washington State coast

      • Maurice L. Schwartz
      Pages 103-110

    3. Pacific coast recreational patterns and activities in Canada

      • Philip Dearden
      Pages 111-123

    4. The recreational use of the Norwegian coast

      • Tormod Klemsdal
      Pages 125-132

    5. Patterns and impacts of coastal recreation along the Gulf coast of Mexico

      • Klaus J. Meyer-Arendt
      Pages 133-148

    6. Wetlands recreation: Louisiana style

      • Donald W. Davis
      Pages 149-163

    7. The natural features of the Caspian Sea western coasts in the context of their prospective recreational use

      • O. K. Leontjev, S. A. Lukyanova, L. G. Nikiforov
      Pages 165-173

  4. Planning for Recreation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Construction of a recreational beach using the original coastal morphology, Koege Bay, Denmark

      • Niels Nielsen
      Pages 177-189

    3. Tourist planning along the coast of Aquitaine, France

      • Paolo Ghelardoni
      Pages 191-197
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Human clustering in coastal areas The coastal zone has gained a solid reputation as a place vocated for recreational activities and this is generally related to the presence of the sea. The relationship, however, does not appear univocal or simple: the sea can be perceived as a hostile element by humans and the more general question of whether the presence of the shore is in itself a favourable, repulsive, or irrelevant factor to settlement is a debatable point, at least for pre-industrial societies. Back in the early part of the 19th century, Friedrich Hegel regarded oceans and rivers as unifying elements rather than dividing ones, thus implying a trend towards the concentration of human settlements along them. 'The sea', he wrote, 'stimulates 1 courage and conquest, as well as profit and plunder', although he realized that this did not equally apply to all maritime peoples. In Hegel's view, different approaches to the sea were mainly the results of cultural factors and, in fact, he recognized that some people living in coastal areas perceive the sea as a dangerous and alien place and the shore as aftnis terrae.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Historical Disciplines, University of Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Fabbri

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recreational Uses of Coastal Areas

  • Book Subtitle: A Research Project of the Commission on the Coastal Environment, International Geographical Union

  • Editors: Paolo Fabbri

  • Series Title: GeoJournal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2391-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0279-7Published: 31 December 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7576-3Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2391-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5499

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 287

  • Topics: Human Geography, Environment, general, Environmental Economics

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