About the Course
Cousera is offering a free online course in Sustainable Tourism. The Course particularly focuses on the problems and potentials of tourism development in small island states in tropical and sub-tropical settings and highlights the challenges of such development on vulnerable ecosystems. The MOOC will present experiences and potential avenues to develop a more sustainable form of tourism.
About the course:
- The MOOC introduces learners to key environmental health and natural resources management challenges associated with the rapid growth in international tourist arrivals into low-income countries.
- Since infrastructural and regulatory capacities in such countries are often limited they are more exposed to the negative implications of such development.
- It also highlights how tourism development in Zanzibar results in increased pressure on its marine environment, solid waste management, water resources and control of mosquitoes.
- These factors will be used as tracers of impacts and areas for future improvement towards a more sustainable form of tourism.
Topics:
The Course topics also relate to a number of targets under the global Sustainable Development Goals connected especially to Goals:
- “good health and well-being”,
- “clean water and sanitation”,
- “life below water”
- “partnerships”.
Week 1:
Tourism and the global sustainability agenda
This module will present the global trends in tourism and its social and environmental impacts.
Week 2:
Tourism - a major consumer of freshwater and producer of waste water
- This module will highlight the role of hotels, in low-income countries in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world, as significant consumers of freshwater and producers of wastewater.
- The module will discuss the impacts this may have on the health of the marine ecosystem and the management of the freshwater resources, especially the problem of saltwater intrusion.
Week 3:
PROMOTING THE ENVIRONMENT
- The general challenges of managing solid waste generation by the tourist sector will be highlighted and examples provided to explain the scope of the problem.
- The extent and nature of the obstacles associated with poor solid waste management linked to the tourist sector on Zanzibar will be discussed focusing on the environmental health impacts of waste generation.
About Coursera:
Coursera is an American online learning platform founded by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller that offers massive open online courses (MOOC), specializations, and also degrees.
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كورسيرا (Coursera) هي منصة تعليمية رائدة عبر الإنترنت توفر دورات تدريبية بالتعاون مع أكثر من 300 جامعة عالمية وشركات رائدة (مثل Google و Meta و IBM) لتقديم تعليم مرن ومرتبط بسوق العمل. تقدم المنصة مجموعة واسعة من الخيارات التعليمية، بما في ذلك الشهادات المهنية، الدورات التخصصية (Specializations)، ودرجات البكالوريوس أو الماجستير عبر الإنترنت في مجالات مثل علوم البيانات، التكنولوجيا، الأعمال، والصحة. تستخدم المنصة الذكاء الاصطناعي لترجمة آلاف الدورات، وتوفير ترجمة نصية (Subtitles) بلغات متعددة، بما في ذلك اللغة العربية.
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