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Perception of beach safety at a destination beach on the Great Lakes

Canadian Geographer / Geographie Canadien
AbstractSurf‐related drowning fatalities are a public health concern in the Great Lakes region of North America, and within Canada there are few beaches with lifeguards and no regional beach safety strategy. This short paper presents the results of a survey completed in the northern hemisphere summer of 2022 to determine the perceptions of beach users ...
Chris Houser, Alex Smith
exaly   +2 more sources

Economic Analysis of Beach Safety Level on the Contingent Valuation in Haeundae Beach

Journal of Coastal Research, 2014
ABSTRACT Jo, E.; Yun, H.S.; Suh, Y.C.; Lee, J., and Lee, J.L., 2014. Economic analysis of beach safety level on the contingent valuation in Haeundae Beach. The beach is the most popular tourism place during the summer vacation, which contributes to local economic improvement and plays the key role in beach tourism resources.
Jooyong Lee
exaly   +2 more sources

Perceptions of beach safety: A comparison of beach users and managers

Coastal Management, 1989
Abstract Today's beach manager must balance legal obligations to protect users from injuries with recreation users’ expectations for reasonably safe and enjoyable recreation opportunities. Thus beach managers must have a thorough understanding of their legal obligations as well as the expectations of their recreation users if they are to formulate risk‐
James E. Fletcher   +2 more
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A probabilistic model of bathing beach safety

Science of The Total Environment, 1975
An improved mathematical model for bathing beach safety is proposed. It is derived by joining the probability of infection from a given dose (Poisson distribution and the probability of acquiring such a dose (lognormal distribution). Even in the absence of better clinical and epidemiological data, the model permits an assessment of relative risk from ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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