On Man-earth Harmony Of Chinese Mountain-type "World Heritage Of Nature And Culture"

Heritage Theory has become a heated subject in the academic field with the penetrating research on the"world heritage". The present thesis attempts to investigate man-earth harmony of Chinese mountain-type"world heritage of nature and culture"on the basis of a review on the study of"world heritage"both domestic and abroad. Guided by the Chinese and western philosophy and an overview of sustainable developing thought, it gives a thorough analysis on the geographical environment and man-earth relations of Chinese current Mount Taishan, Mount Huangshan, Mount Emei-Leshan Giant Buddha and Mount Wuyi at the level of"type"in virtue of some relevant theories in other fields. It further provides a positive study on man-earth harmony of Mount Taishan with the aid of a vast autoptical investigations and questionnaires. The thesis includes eight chapters: chapter one and chapter two raise the research questions and outline the framework; chapter three elucidates the theoretical basis of the research; chapter four and chapter five analyze the geographical environment and man-earth relations of the four Chinese mountain-type"world heritage of nature and culture"; chapter six and chapter seven have a positive study on Mount Taishan; chapter eight is the conclusion of the thesis.Having compared the fundamental thoughts of Chinese and western philosophy, we assume that the essence of Chinese philosophy ---"unity of man and nature", which asserts the harmonious unity of human beings and nature, bears a great significance in the inheritance of"world heritage"for generations and the harmonious man-earth relations. The study on"world heritage"needs support from relevant theories in other fields such as man-earth theory, anthropological ecology theory, ecotourism theory and circular economy theory and the like, all of which, though have their own aspects of study respectively, have a terminal in harmonious unity of human beings and nature, which in turn represents the essence of sustainable developing thought.On the basis of an examination on twenty items of"world heritage of nature and culture"abroad, we conduct a through geographical analysis of four Chinese items, based on which we work out the following four reasons why they are taken as"world double heritage": the obvious gurgitation of hypsography with majority of mountains and altiplanos; a vast acreage, mostly more than hundreds square kilometers; fit for human beings'living and activity for some or a long time; having been a cultural prosperous place in one or some periods of history. It is safe to say that any item of"world heritage of nature and culture"can be regarded as a comparatively complete man-earth areal system, for it takes a sufficient acreage and a relatively complex natural...