COVID-19 lockdown shows how much natural mountain regions are affected by heavy tourism

Lenart‐Boroń, Anna; Boroń, P; Prajsnar, Justyna; Guzik, Maciej; Żelazny, Mirosław; Pufelska, Marta; Chmiel, Maria J.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151355

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“…Recently, water-related recreation has also been treated as serious pollution, which aggravates the adverse changes in water quality. The negative effects of recreational activities on water quality were confirmed in a few findings [ 26 , 27 ]. The small, shallow, and recreationally used Lake Sztynorckie was selected to present the pattern of impact on the water environment.…”

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Ecological Implications in a Human-Impacted Lake—A Case Study of Cyanobacterial Blooms in a Recreationally Used Water Body

Napiórkowska‐Krzebietke

Dunalska

Bogacka-Kapusta

2023

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This study was aimed primarily at describing the planktonic assemblages with special attention to invasive and toxin-producing cyanobacterial species in the context of ecological and health threats. The second aim was to analyze the aspect of recreational pressure, which may enhance the cyanobacterial blooms, and, as a consequence, the negative changes and loss of planktonic biodiversity. This study was carried out in recreationally used Lake Sztynorckie throughout the whole growing season of 2020 and included an assessment of the abundance and biomass of phytoplankton (cyanobacteria and algae) in relation to environmental variables. The total biomass was in the range of 28–70 mg L−1, which is typical for strong blooms. The dominant filamentous cyanobacteria were Pseudanabaena limnetica, Limnothrix redekei, Planktolyngbya limnetica, and Planktothrix agarhii, and three invasive nostocalean species Sphaerospermopsis aphanizomenoides, Cuspidothrix issatschenkoi, and Raphidiopsis raciborskii. They can pose a serious threat not only to the ecosystem but also to humans because of the possibility of cyanobacteria producing cyanotoxins, such as microcystins, saxitoxins, anatoxin-a, and cylindrospermopsins, having hepatotoxic, cytotoxic, neurotoxic, and dermatoxic effects. The water quality was assessed as water bodies had bad ecological status (based on phytoplankton), were highly meso-eutrophic (based on zooplankton), and had very low trophic efficiency and low biodiversity.

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Ecological Implications in a Human-Impacted Lake—A Case Study of Cyanobacterial Blooms in a Recreationally Used Water Body

Napiórkowska‐Krzebietke

Dunalska

Bogacka-Kapusta

2023

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“…Some researchers believe that mountain tourism will be the main direction of tourism development in the future, while scattered tourism research cannot find the development law [ 5 ]. Some scholars also believe that the key to mountain village tourism is to analyze the professional villages, analyze the areas where the professional villages gather, and find out the differences [ 6 ]. Some scholars believe that the personalization of mountain village tourism is obvious, and the reasons for its agglomeration should be analyzed [ 7 ].…”

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An Optimization Analysis Model of Tourism Specialized Villages Based on Neural Network and System Dynamics

Wang

Sui-ying

et al. 2022

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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With the rapid development of tourism, professional tourism villages emerge one after another, which has become the focus of the tourism industry. At present, there are some problems in tourism professional villages, such as imperfect management and inaccurate prediction of future development, which affect the rational allocation of tourism resources. In order to improve the distribution of tourism resources and better predict the development of tourism professional villages, it is necessary to make comprehensive judgment and analysis, especially the analysis of indicators such as the prediction and development judgment of tourism professional villages. This paper discusses the optimization analysis of the agglomeration of tourism specialized villages by backpropagation (BP) neural network and system dynamics model, analyzes the system structure of the agglomeration factors of tourism specialized villages, and promotes the intelligent integration of the agglomeration factors. The development of clusters of professional villages promotes data integration among resources, economy, society, and other elements and presents the characteristics of big data. As the level of concentration of professional villages increases, the complexity of the associated factors also increases, which increases the difficulty and effectiveness of tourism analysis. In view of this situation, taking mountain tourism as the research object, this paper proposes an improved system dynamics model based on BP, extracts features from cross factor (resource, economic, and social) data, and optimizes the relationship between professional village agglomeration and various factors. The MATLAB simulation results show that based on the improved system dynamics analysis, the simplification rate of (resources, economy, and society) data can be controlled at more than 24%, the degree of agglomeration is more than 95%, and the construction time of the relationship map of related factors is less than 40 s. Therefore, the analysis method proposed in this paper is suitable for the calculation of the agglomeration of tourism professional villages in the mountain area and can meet the needs of the development of tourism professional villages in the mountain area.

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“…During these times economic activities came to a standstill, people suffered from loss of livelihoods, production and demand systems were collapsed and healthcare systems were overburdened [4][5][6][7][8]. Therefore, scientists across the world attempted to study effect of these unprecedented restrictions on human activities on broad fields such as psychology, socioeconomics, agriculture, environment, and tourism to name a few [9][10][11][12][13]. Interestingly, the imposition of the lockdown turned out to be inoculation to the environment resulting in overall improvements in lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere [14][15][16][17][18].…”

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Rejuvenation and Restoration of Surface Water Quality Amid COVID-19 Lockdown: A Comprehensive Review in Indian Context

Arora

Sharma

Kashyap

et al. 2022

Environmental Engineering Research

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Rivers are our country’s lifeline; however, we have done enough destruction to them which leads to deterioration in water quality. Fortunately, COVID-19 lockdown has brought new life to nature. This encouraged us to outline present review article which discusses pilot impacts of lockdown on six Indian rivers. Few rivers including Ganga showed major improvement at few sites in the assessed parameters such as pH, BOD, DO, FC, etc. The Ganga water at Haridwar and Rishikesh was investigated ‘fit for drinking’ (Class A) while at Kanpur was found fit for ‘outdoor bathing’ (Class B). These improvements can be attributed to strict restriction on human activities during lockdown as there were no or minimum industrial discharge, tourism activities, mass bathing and commercial events near rivers. However, after upliftment of lockdown, these activities will return to their previous state and most likely pollutants will eventually reappear in the water bodies. So, in this review we have reviewed government’s existing water pollution control schemes, analysed their limitations and recommended several scopes for improvement. Further research directions in this area have also been highlighted. We believe that plans and actions described in the article, if implemented, will lead to fruitful outcomes in managing water resources.

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COVID-19 lockdown shows how much natural mountain regions are affected by heavy tourism

Cited by 16 publications

References 54 publications

Ecological Implications in a Human-Impacted Lake—A Case Study of Cyanobacterial Blooms in a Recreationally Used Water Body

Ecological Implications in a Human-Impacted Lake—A Case Study of Cyanobacterial Blooms in a Recreationally Used Water Body

An Optimization Analysis Model of Tourism Specialized Villages Based on Neural Network and System Dynamics

Rejuvenation and Restoration of Surface Water Quality Amid COVID-19 Lockdown: A Comprehensive Review in Indian Context

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