LAGOON TOURISM SYSTEM
ABSTRACT:
The project titled “LAGOON TOURISM SYSTEM” is
designed using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET as the front end and SQL SERVER 2000
as the back end which is developed under Visual Studio .NET 2005.
Lagoons are highly productive coastal features
that provide a range of natural services that society values. Their setting
within the coastal landscape leaves them especially vulnerable to profound
physical, ecological, and associated societal disturbance from global climate
change.
Expected shifts in physical and ecological characteristics range from
changes in flushing regime, freshwater inputs, and water chemistry to complete
inundation and loss and the concomitant loss of natural and human communities.
Therefore, managing coastal lagoons in the context of global climate change is
critical. Although management approaches will vary depending on local
conditions and cultural norms, all management scenarios will need to be nimble
and to make full use of the spectrum of values through which society views
these unique ecosystems.
We propose that this spectrum includes pragmatic,
scholarly, aesthetic, and tacit categories of value. Pragmatic values such as
fishery or tourism revenue are most easily quantified and are therefore more
likely to be considered in management strategies. I
n contrast, tacit values
such as a sense of place are more difficult to quantify and therefore more
likely to be left out of explicit management justifications. However, tacit
values are the most influential to stakeholder involvement because they both
derive from and shape individual experiences and beliefs.
Tacit values underpin
all categories of social values that we describe and can be expected to have a
strong influence over human behavior. The articulation and inclusion of the
full spectrum of values, especially tacit values, will facilitate and support
nimble adaptive management of coastal lagoon ecosystems in the context of
global climate change.
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