BDY541: Recreation Ecology / Faculty of Applied Sciences

This course discovers about recreation ecology that deals with environmental impacts of recreation on natural ecosystems including impacts on vegetation, soil, wildlife, and water. Providing in-depth understanding of the recreational ecology principles and its implications, students should be able to examine, assess and monitor visitor impacts, typically to natural areas, and their relationships to influential factors such as visitor- related, environmental, and managerial. Hence, the course offers on site knowledge of impact assessment techniques and approaches in identifying potential recreational impacts on resources during the field trips. Finally, the students also need to come out with the identification of appropriate and effective management strategies and actions in a way to minimize the impacts.