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Podcast: Tourism Geographies Podcast
Episode: Valuing surfing ecosystems: an environmental economics and natural resources management perspective
Description: AbstractSurfing ecosystemsâsurf breaks and their surrounding areasâcan provide multifaceted benefits, including support for tourism industries, personal and social wellbeing and shoreline protection. Previous research has predominantly concentrated on quantifying direct expenditures, sidelining non-market values, and failing to consider the interactions between multiple ecosystem components. To address these gaps, this paper provides a review of key principles of environmental economics and natural resource management in relation to surfing ecosystems. We examine how the value of surfing ecosystems can affect (and be affected by) factors related to environmental sustainability, tourism demands and economic development. We propose a novel framework for cha...