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his paper addresses elements related to sustainability in tourism
construction related planning and project for how to manage the negative
environmental impact in fragile beach ecosystems in Galapagos Islands,
Ecuador, which have been caused by certain construction approaches and
techniques. The study discusses the current status of construction on
beachfronts and other coastal areas, including economic, sociocultural,
environmental aspects and other instruments aimed at ensuring sustainability.
The application of environmental assessment methods to the field of
construction design allows us to study and evaluate the actions that take place
in the activity of planning, projecting, implementation, the use and eventual
abandonment or recycling of built objects, with the goal of determining,
predicting, interpreting and communicating the negative impacts that these
actions cause to the environment under current conditions, in order to achieve
a social model with sustainable approaches to tourism in Galapagos Islands
of Ecuador. At the same time, it is necessary to use the analysis and synthesis
methods to study the primary contributions of the research subject and to
verify its validity in the field of tourism construction. The application of the
work will contribute to the analysis of economic costs from an environmental
perspective, through the adoption of preventive environmental measures rather
than retroactive ones; reducing the consumption of materials, manpower,
energy and time by focusing on the problem in advance and estimating the
environmental costs that must be included in long-term valuations as part of
feasibility studies
Biography
Ruiz Lourdes has completed her PhD fromUniversidad Técnica
José Antonio Echeverria in Havana, Cuba and Postdoctoral
Studies from Dresden University in Germany and Universidad
de Alcalá de Henares in Spain. She is an Architect, Master in
Construction Sciences, Doctor in Technical Sciences and
General Director of Research at Universidad Internacional del
Ecuador. She has published more than 30 papers in reputed
journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member
of repute.
lruiz@uide.edu.ecTourism constructions in fragile ecosystems: case study in
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Ruiz Lourdes
Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Ecuador
Ruiz Lourdes, JET 2018 Volume: 7