<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The paper presents a simple qualitative model of environmental consequences of wildlife tourism. Qualitative models use just three values: Positive/Increasing, Zero/Constant and Negative/Decreasing. Such quantifiers of trends are the least information intensive. Qualitative models can be useful, since models of wildlife tourism include such variables as, for example, Biodiversity (BIO), Animals’ habituation to tourists (HAB) or Plant composition change (PLA) that are sometimes difficult or costly to quantify. Hence, a significant fraction of available information about wildlife tourism and its consequences is not of numerical nature, for example, if HAB is increasing then BIO is decreasing. Such equationless relations are studied in this paper. The model has 10 variables and 20 equationless pairwise interrelations among them. The model is solved and 15 solutions, that is, scenarios are obtained. All qualitative states, including the first and second qualitative derivatives with respect to time, of all variables are specified for each scenario.</p></abstract>

The paper presents a simple qualitative model of environmental consequences of wildlife tourism. Qualitative models use just three values: Positive/Increasing, Zero/Constant and Negative/Decreasing. Such quantifiers of trends are the least information intensive. Qualitative models can be useful, since models of wildlife tourism include such variables as, for example, Biodiversity (BIO), Animals’ habituation to tourists (HAB) or Plant composition change (PLA) that are sometimes difficult or costly to quantify. Hence, a significant fraction of available information about wildlife tourism and its consequences is not of numerical nature, for example, if HAB is increasing then BIO is decreasing. Such equationless relations are studied in this paper. The model has 10 variables and 20 equationless pairwise interrelations among them. The model is solved and 15 solutions, that is, scenarios are obtained. All qualitative states, including the first and second qualitative derivatives with respect to time, of all variables are specified for each scenario.

Environmental Consequences of Wildlife Tourism: The Use of Formalised Qualitative Models

Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Management, Brno University of Technology, Kolejní 4, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Ekológia (Bratislava)

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The paper presents a simple qualitative model of environmental consequences of wildlife tourism. Qualitative models use just three values: Positive/Increasing,...

Environmental Consequences of Wildlife Tourism: The Use of Formalised Qualitative Models

Published Online: Sep 01, 2015

Page range: 260 - 267

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eko-2015-0025

Keywords
tourism, human impact, formalisation, qualitative model, multidimensional model, scenarios

© by Štěpán Veselý

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Environmental Consequences of Wildlife Tourism: The Use of Formalised Qualitative Models

Published Online: Sep 01, 2015

Page range: 260 - 267

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eko-2015-0025

Keywordstourism, human impact, formalisation, qualitative model, multidimensional model, scenarios

© by Štěpán Veselý

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
tourism, human impact, formalisation, qualitative model, multidimensional model, scenarios