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Environmental Influences And Comprehensive Evaluations Of Eco-tourism In Wuyishan Scenery District

Posted on:2008-06-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S F FanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360215467970Subject:Ecology
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Based on the discussion of analysis and status quo of eco-tourism resources in Wuyishan Scenery District, the impacts exerted by the recreational disturbance on the vegetation characteristics and the communities, and so on were analyzed. Eco-tourism resources and its environmental quality, and ecological security were evaluated, in addition, the ecological environmental capacity and the characteristics of the tourists were analyzed, finally, the function planning and the development measures were put forward, asfollows:The analysis on the landscape characteristics of plant communities can reveal the rules of the influence that the tourist disturbance intensity has on plant communities in the investigated district, namely, the impact on the plant community at different distance from the tourist path and its landscape characteristics that the different tourist disturbance intensity has is evidently different, and the principal of each vegetation layer at different distance from tourist path almost is near>middle > distant; the nearer the distance from tourist path is, the more the rubbish is, the taller the height of dead branch under tree is, and the more serious the scratch is. The rule of the change at different distance describes that of tourist disturbance objectively. Generally speaking, tourist disturbance is the most intense at near distance, the second at middle distance, and the least at distant place. Besides, the more serious the tourist disturbance intensity, the less the LIV, and information index of species diversity has a trend as near>middle > distant distance.The study on the impact that tourist disturbance has on the communities shows that although the cause of protecting the Scenery District has been backed up by the majority of the community members, yet there are still few people to remain against or indifferent. At the same time, most of the community people speak highly of the tourism economic, social and environmental influence.Considering the different physical geographical and human-geographical factors have different influences on the vegetation structures in the Wuyishan Scenery District, the relationship between the landscape characteristics of eco-tourism vegetation and the physical geographical factors in ecological tourism in Wuyishan Scenery District was analyzed. The results show that the human geographical factors has greater effect than the physical geographical factors on landscape characteristics, and the physical geographical factors has slight impact on the landscape characteristics of the vegetation.The qualitative methods for evaluation--"three values" and "six conditions" assessment mode wereadopted to estimate the eco-tourism resources of Wuyishan Scenery District, the results show that Wuyishan scenery district is extremely rich in the eco-tourism resources. A system of evaluating indices was presented and Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) was adopted to evaluate the environmental quality of eco-tourism in Wuyishan Scenery District, and the integrated value was 82.68, which shows the fact that the environmental quality of eco-tourism in Wuyishan Scenery District is good, the ecological environment quality of those scenic spots displays the trend: jiuqu river scenic spot, yunwo scenic spot, yixiantian scenic spot, wuyigong scenic spot, tianxin scenic spot, taoyuan scenic spot, shuilian hole scenic spot.Based on the theory of ecological security, Ecological Footprint Analysis was adopted to quantitatively estimate the ecological security of Wuyishan Scenery District, and the results showed that the ecologicalfootprint in Wuyishan Scenery District was 1.2503 hm , ecological carrying capacity was 4.0841 hm , and occupancy rate was 0.3061.So Wuyishan Sceuery District was secure on the whole judging from the data. However, the ecological occupancy rate of grassland and water were more than 1, which suggested that their ecological security was far beyond their carrying capacity and the ecosystems of grassland and water were in the state of danger.The investigation and the analysis on tourist characteristics in Wuyishan Scenery District show the results that that the majority of the tourists are the citizens from big or medium-sized cities in China, and their education level is mostly just or higher than junior college, the trend that young tourists account for more and more proportion is evident and most of the tourists have medium or high income. Furthermore, the sightseeing is the main part of the tourism activities and the natural scene in Wuyishan Scenery District meets the needs of most tourists to enjoy the natural beauty.By the calculation of ecological environmental capacity in Wuyishan Scenery District, the carrying capacity of the whole day could be acquired , D is 16548 ( person/day ) and 496.4 ( ten thousand people/year). Meanwhile, the maximum d was 8918 (person/day) and was 267.5 (ten thousand people/year). Obviously the carrying capacity in Wuyishan Scenery District was extremely large, and the tourism market should be expanded.Based on the analysis of tourist characteristics and the environmental carrying capacity, the whole Scenery District was divided into 4 parts, namely "ecological tourism region to return nature" , " natural ecological tourism region for expedition" , "scientific archaeological ecotourism region" and "the ecotourism region for shopping and rest" . Then list the suggestions on how to develop Wuyishan Scenery District. In addition, several suggestions and measures for eco-tourism development in Wuyishan Scenery District were further put forward.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wuyishan Scenery District, Eco-tourism, Environmental Influences, Comprehensive Evaluations
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