أثر الانشطة البشرية على مواقع السياحة البيئية : حالة دراسية المحمية غابات عجلون و المناطق المجاورة-الأردن

Abstract EN

Ajloun Reserve is considered one of the most important reserves established in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in order to promote development, tourism and the environment on one hand and to preserve the natural and environmental components in the other hand.

This research deals with the impact of human activities on the touristic environment of the Ajloun reserve and its vicinity.

This research aiming at identifying the environmental changes that have occurred in Ajloun preserve by touristic human activities within the preserve and its vicinity.

As well as to develop an integrated management and implementation plan based on the balance between the preserve layout and its vicinity to prevent exploitation and environmental degradation, and awareness of the negative environmental change witnessed in the preserve.

This research indicated that human activity for residents in the reserve and its vicinity areas is the primary theme for maintaining the environmental and natural components of the reserve through participation in the planning and oversight of the process and the implementation of any projects related to the preserve.

To integrate this activity with the other sectors in the region such as agriculture, industry and tourism for the benefit of residents in these areas.

Accordingly, the researcher has followed a methodology based on field visits to the reserve and personal contact inside the reserve, and the local population in neighboring villages to collect information and data from which to describe and analyze human activities in the preserve and its vicinity and the use of desktop tools and internet and field observations.

The researcher has come up with a set of findings and recommendations, as the need to put restrictions on human activities within the preserve and its vicinity through the goals of these activities and its positive and negative environmental and natural impacts.

Through the invitation of planners and stakeholders on preserve to the adoption of new entries in the preserve layout administratively and environmentally based on a balance between human activities undertaken within the preserve and the activities that take place in its vicinity.