El impacto de la actividad turística sobre el paisaje de La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia)

Abstract

La Manga del Mar Menor in Murcia is one of the most beautiful tourist resorts on the Spanish coast as it was naturally created a sandbar nearly twenty miles long by half a mile wide, which forms a unique interface between an open sea like the Mediterranean and another shaped like the Mar Menor lagoon. For four decades this unique space has been subject to intense urban development linked to tourism, which has resulted in serious problems of territorial organization as mobility or residential densification and visible environmental degradation resulted in the loss of lake areas, dunes and beaches amplitude. Therefore, it is urgent to implement existing regulations and proper planning future be able to recover this space and stop the progressive deterioration that could see committed his future as a natural and prime tourist.