Numerous countries actively consider the human settlement environment and have implemented rural governance strategies to ameliorate the living conditions of rural dwellers. The construction of a rural human settlement environment is an important goal of China’s rural revitalization strategy and improving farmers’ well-being is a key element of China’s policies on agriculture, farmers, and villages. However, whether a rural human settlement environment enhances farmers’ well-being remains untested. By adopting the method of random stratified sampling, this study investigated 1002 farmers inside and outside six nature reserves in Liaoning, China. OLS and ordered probit regression models were used to assess the impact on the well-being and the satisfaction of farmers with their settlement environment around nature reserves from three aspects: the natural ecological environment, the hardware facility environment, and the daily governance environment. The results of this study proved that the construction of a human settlement environment can significantly boost the well-being of farmers. Moreover, the satisfaction towards the natural ecological environment, hardware facility environment, and daily governance environment exerts a substantial impact on the well-being at the significance level of 1%, with a positive sign, showing a stable enhancement role. Among them, the satisfaction with the hardware facility environment was the most essential for improving happiness, with a coefficient of 0.126. A heterogeneity analysis suggests that the positive effect of satisfaction with the human settlement environment on farmers’ well-being within nature reserves was more significant in the natural ecological environment, with a coefficient of 0.244; the hardware facility environment had the greatest positive effect on the well-being of farmers outside nature reserves, with a coefficient of 0.224; and the daily governance environment had a greater enhancing effect on the well-being of farmers both inside and outside nature reserves. Based on these results, it is recommended that governments encourage farmers around nature reserves to participate in wildlife accident insurance, strengthen ecological environmental protection, and enhance the hardware facility environment. Furthermore, local governments should disseminate knowledge of human settlement management to farmers and improve the efficiency of human settlement environment management at the grassroots level. Finally, governments should prioritize human settlement environment development and identify the farmers’ needs of human settlement environment to enhance their well-being.

Based on statistics of Inner Mongolia of China, this paper studied the regional differences and influence factors of inbound tourism economy by analyzing the range, standard deviation, coefficient of variation and RHL. The results showed that the regional differences of inbound tourism economy were large. From the viewpoint of differences in regional development, the highest level was eastern Inner Mongolia and the lowest one was western. While from the viewpoint of urban differences, Hulunbeier and Xilingol’s development was highest, Wuhai and Hinggan’s development was lowest. The absolute discrepancy increased and the relative discrepancy reduced gradually. The main influence factors of regional difference included scenic area number, traffic conditions, geographical location and tourist market surrounding. However, the change of difference in inbound tourism economy was rarely influenced by the development level of regional economy, but only closely related to the local development of agricultural economy.

Agricultural producing activity is one of the emission sources of greenhouse gases, and carbon footprint is a new concept emerging in the context of developing low-carbon economy. In this paper, the agricultural carbon footprint in Liaoning Province was calculated and analyzed with carbon footprint method. According to the results, carbon cost caused by the application of chemical fertilizer and land irrigation, as well as the application of diesel oil in agricultural machinery takes up a high percentage in the input carbon footprint, and the total carbon footprint increases year by year. The carbon intensity calculated in unit output occurs in a declining trend, while the carbon intensity calculated in unit cultivated area fluctuates constantly in a small range, and the carbon efficiency occurs in evident increasing trend. Finally, deficiencies of the study and problems that should be further discussed were proposed.

The competency of staff in forest parks was analyzed by adopting Behavior Event Interview and a questionnaire was also implemented to investigate the staff training needs. As indicated by the results, there is some difference between the competency of staff in forest parks and that described in Spencer’s Universal Competency Dictionary. The training needs of staff are divided into three categories: “Organization and Management”, “Contact and Communication” and “Customer Orientation” with 11 items in total. Some prevalent training methods, for example, lectures and experts guidance, have significant correlation with staff training needs. Experienced training professionals are favored according to the feedback of training target groups. The training spots should be selected carefully. The research is of great significance to the staff training in forest parks.