Upland environments are too fragile for intensive leisure use

When flavor at upland environss I pass on need to define what is an upland milieu. The difficulty which I found was that it was rattling hard to define what an upland environment is so I questioned four whatsoever geography teachers of what they thought was an upland environment. They replied that an upland environment is an environment, which is above two hundred meteres, and these can include national set and toilet resorts. Intensive void enjoyment is an bea where a skunk of leisure activities are taking name by twenty-four hour period-trippers.Fragile is a word which describes an theatre of operations where a lot of activities are taking place but they having a noisome effect on the environment thitherof making it unsustainable or that environment is easily ruined by the activities which are taking place e. g. leisure activities. Leisure activities on national greens both have a tyrannical effect and a negative effect. An example of a validating effect whit ethornbe its heavy for a person health and a negative effect could be destruction of footpaths but what should be do is that upland environments need to be made more sustainable thence they wont be fragile for intense leisure use.In this essay I will be looking at national parks and volume resorts in MEDCS and non in LEDCS, as national parks in these countries need more protection from tourists rather than one-day trippers. Also only upper crust community in these countries can afford to visit national parks and rest of population are far to poor to afford the merchant vessels and some(prenominal) are too busy working in pasture to have a living of some kind. The motorways and railway networks are not as good in LEDCS as they are in MEDCS. When I am looking at MEDCS national parks and mountain resorts.I will be looking at the stirs that leisure activities have had on upland environments. I will look both at the positive and negative effects of leisure activities and look at ways in which it could be more sustainable. Finally I will give induction whether or not upland environments are too fragile for intensive leisure use. The first area, which I will be looking at, is a national park in the UK. The national park, which will be looking at, is the note districts and a village called Castleton. Castleton is a honey pot during the months of April- princely it receives up to 900 visitors on Sundays.Already you can see the problems that are termination to occur. The visitor spots are so gamey on Sundays because numerous population have a day off work on Sundays and the motorways M1 and M62 are very close which founds it easier for people to travel to peak districts and present nearly everyone can afford a car to travel contrasted LEDCS where many people cannot afford the transport and do have high disposable income. The cities of Sheffield (493582) and Manchester (438202) are also very close so many of the one day visitors could come from ther e. This is another(prenominal) reason for the high number of visitors.The months between April and August is that weather conditions are credibly to be good for leisure activities to take place therefore more visits are likely to occur putting pressure on the environment. To trade name it more sustainable they need to pee-pee the winter months more threadive and appealing therefore this would even out the number of visitors and less pressure on the environment and less leisure activities wouldnt only be taking part in the spring and summer months. The leisure activities, which take place in the peak district national park, are as follows sight see, hiking, riding, cycling, climbing, caving, hang coast and canoeing.The impact that hiking and site seeing have is that they destroy the footpaths and therefore footpath eating away takes place and heather and other plants are destroyed and litter may be thrown anywhere. What inevitably to happen is that people need to be aware of th ese factors like in Malham there are no bins and people have to take the rubbish away themselves. Climbing and caving have another impact as white powder is left on the rocks which climbers use in order to have a better grip. This can eat into rocks and the hooks left behind can crack the rocks.Hang gliding is another leisure activity which affects the environment as it takes along onslaught up and this activity doesnt fit the environment it cause visual pollution. The mo region, which I am going to look at, is the Banff National lay in Canada and in a state called Alberta. Over 75% of the visitors are Albertianins and the inlet is made easy by road, railway, buses and plane services to this area. In sum people now have their own cars than they did about 75 years ago this may have resulted in more one day trippers coming to the area.The popular times of the year are the summer months especially August and September this is similar to the Peak Districts. There are restriction s position on all visitors as they are charged tumbles to enter the park in addition there are camping permit fee and a permit fee for fishing unlike the peak Districts as there are no fees for doing these activities. Furthermore there are very dangerous animals such as bears and cougars that could attack the visitors therefore visitors need to be educated about these animals when they are sight seeing. These restrictions do not make it in the peak districts.The leisure activities taking in the Banff National third estate are very similar to those of the peak Districts. The leisure activities taking place as follows skiing, snow boarding, other winter sports, sightseeing, hiking, canoeing and camping. Skiing does make the environment more fragile as deforestation has occurred in order to make way for ski runs. This results in habitats being destroyed and more avalanches are going to occur as there are no trees weaken them. This could result in more deaths but could benefit them sparingly as more people are going to spend gold on skiing.It will depend on the cost benefit. In order to make more sustainable less trees need to be cut trim back and winter sports have the same effect as skiing. Hiking and sight seeing may also destroy the footpaths in the park like in the Peak Districts in addition it could disturb the wild animals and plants may be trampled over. Camping may lead to litter thrown everywhere on the grass and this can affect the environment by bear coming getting into the litter either by chewing on vitamin C can or eating ploythene wrapper for sandwiches in addition a fire could occur which result in the destruction of the whole park.This has happened in national parks in the US again destroying habitats for animals and beautiful scenery. The ordinal region I am going to look at is the wad resort in north-western region of Italy. It is an alpine region. This region receives a lot of visitors and the main attractions are the skiing resorts . Skinning has brought positive effects to the area and people now have better jobs that are paid more than res publica and forestry. Also the standard of living has improved for the local people.Roads, water supplies and toilet have been improved. The problems that are occurring in this area, is that due to a high guide for skiing more enlarged ski runs are being construct but this means that deforestation has occurred at the mountain slopes and furthermore there is an increase in the number of winter sports which has resulted in mountain hint soil being eroded away and alpine vegetation has been reduced. entirely of these actions have resulted in more avalanches as trees have been cleared to make way for the new ski runs.Also the danger flooding has considerably increased during the summer thunderstorms or following snow melt in spring. There are other climatic problems such as some winters the snowfall is light, late in arriving and not lying long at low altitudes which has resulted skiing at higher levels were the environment is more fragile. I will conclude that having looked at each of the different regions for upland environments I have said that upland environments are too fragile for intensive leisure use unless they are made sustainable.Castleton in the Peak Districts needs reduce the number of visitors in the summer either by adding fees. The roadstead and the vehicles cannot cope with the amount of vehicles in the summer months although efforts have been made to attract visitors to the during the winter months by adding lights furthermore there needs to be a reduction in the number golf courses. At the moment money is brought to the area by these leisure activities but erst the environment is destroyed no one will come to the Peak District therefore the stintingal benefits will disappear.This also goes for Courmayeur as the skiing has brought economical benefits to the area as less people are leaving but once the environments destroyed then the visitors will not come therefore economical benefits will go. People can make National Parks and mountain resorts sustainable now or if they do not make them sustainable then for the future they will be destroyed by the leisure activities taking place and their knock effects in addition to this economic benefits will disappear as well.EvaluationThe research, which I have carried out, is supplementary research and Primary research could have occurred but I did no have the time and money to go and visit the Banff National Park or Courmayeur. This major downside of this report as the data gathered for master(a) would have been more accurate and up-to-date.