Kappad Beach Redevelopment
Category : Public spaces
Location : Calicut
Description
Blue Flag Kappad Beach Redevelopment Project aims at developing the existing beach into a more active tourist spot, converting it into a beach providing numerous recreational opportunities for millions of people. Boating, fishing, swimming, walking, and sunbathing are among the numerous activities. The beach becomes a source of enormous economic benefit to host communities, causing many environmental and social impacts to the coastal environment. The upbringing of beach also aims at a comprehensive approach linking sustainable indicators and carrying capacities in design models and planning regulations. To develop it into sustainable beach tourism, conceptual sustainable design models including an array of acceptable capacities based on the ecological, psychological, social, physical, economic and managerial capacity thresholds of site are studied
