The Establishment and Application of Environment Sustainability Evaluation Indicators for Ecotourism Environments

Chen, Han-Shen

doi:10.3390/su7044727

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“…In this study, the natural capital categories were built-up land, forest land, arable land, water, and grassland. In light of previous research, the SANC account system consisted of transportation, accommodation, food, and waste sub-accounts [33][34][35][36]. Elaborated in Table 1, the four sub-accounts cover 10 assessment items corresponding to 28 elements.…”

Section: Account System For the Sustainability Assessment Of Natural mentioning

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Sustainability Assessment of Natural Capital Based on the 3D Ecological Footprint Model: A Case Study of the Shennongjia National Park Pilot

2019

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The sustainability assessment of natural capital (SANC) is one of the key elements in the field of national park protection. Assessing the impact of socioeconomic development on the Shennongjia National Park Pilot (SNPP), a typical national park in China, would be extremely conducive to the sustainable management of its natural capital. To this end, a natural capital account system encompassing transportation, accommodation, food, and waste for both locals and tourists was developed. Throughout the period from 2007 to 2016, a SANC was conducted in SNPP based on the 3D ecological footprint (EF 3D ) model to measure stock consumption as well as flow occupancy. The main conclusions were as follows: First, the ecological footprint (EF) size of the SNPP increased yearly from 2007 to 2014, although it decreased in 2015, when the government started preparing for the SNPP. Second, rapid tourism-related developments brought about an increase in the EF of built-up land, and the increasing medicinal planting also enlarged the EF of arable land. Third, the cumulative EF of tourism was 2.82 times that of locals over the past decade. This gap has been expanding. Overall, the results show relatively steady sustainability in terms of natural capital in the SNPP. More precisely, the preceding stock consumption did not severely constrain the function of the current regeneration of flow capital, whereas tourism and planting have become potential threats to the sustainability of the natural capital.Sustainability 2019, 11, 956 2 of 17 destruction of animal habitats due to the results of recreational activities, such as garbage, local natural resource consumption by agricultural production [2], reduced national park space due to hotels and recreation trails [3], and soil erosion caused by traffic [4]. Unsustainable natural capital utilization is causing natural capital to be an increasingly limiting factor for human well-being in the Anthropocene era [5,6].Natural capital, the most fundamental of the forms of capital, sets the ecological limits for our socioeconomic systems [7]. Environment and development economics theory states that maintaining natural capital is the corner-stone of sustainable development [8]. However, the significance of natural capital used to be overlooked when making decisions. Consequently, the sustainability assessment of natural capital (SANC) provides insights into designing environmental policy and sustainable development planning. At present, the SANC does not have a mature evaluation system that can directly interface with economic development. Hence, studies on natural capital mainly adopt ecological footprint (EF) [9], ecosystem service valuation [10], energy theory [11], net primary productivity [12], life cycle assessment [13], etc. Currently, the SANC generally relies on various EF methods [14][15][16][17]. These methods can clearly quantify human occupation and the supply of natural capital, which are more operative and less subjective for the SANC.The EF model is a mature approach for quantitativ...

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Section: Account System For the Sustainability Assessment Of Natural mentioning

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Sustainability Assessment of Natural Capital Based on the 3D Ecological Footprint Model: A Case Study of the Shennongjia National Park Pilot

2019

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“…A small improvement in county level of ecological security would yield a considerable increase in overall level of ecosystem integrity and healthy development of urbanization. Therefore, different promoting measures and supporting policies could be carried out for different county level of ecological security of land resources through classifying counties based on the predicted level of ecological security of land resources [2].…”

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Ecological Security Classification of Regionally Sustainable Utilization of Land Resources Based on SVM

Zhao¹,

Jin²

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 7th International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (ICEESD 2018)

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Ecological security classification of land resources play an important role in sustainable utilization of land resources and improve benefit of healthy development of urbanization in China. According to the county level of ecological security classification of land resources data which is large scale and imbalance, this paper presented a support vector machine (SVM) model to classify the county level of ecological security of land resources. The method was compared with artificial neural network, decision tree, logistic regression, and naive Bayesian classifier regarding the county level of ecological security of land resources classification for Guanzhong urban agglomeration. It is found that the method has the best accuracy rate, hit rate, covering rate and lift coefficient, and provides an effective measurement for county level of ecological security of land resources classification and prediction.

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“…Due to the fact that it is relatively easy to both understand and calculate, EF has become a quantitative indicator that is now widely utilized in the field of ecological economics. A number of studies conducted in Taiwan have investigated the EF model in terms of its basic concepts, theoretical hypotheses, assessment methods, deficiencies, and empirical applications [48][49][50], in addition to developing a number of EF-related theories and estimation methods. Relatedly, Lee and Peng conducted a study in 2014 [51] in which they expanded upon earlier research in order to analyze Taiwan's EF from 2008 to 2011.…”

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Integrating Ecosystem Services and Eco-Security to Assess Sustainable Development in Liuqiu Island

2017

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Abstract:Developing sustainable island tourism must be thoroughly evaluated in consideration of ecological, economic, and social factors on account of the fragility of island ecosystems. This study evaluated the ecological footprint (EF) and ecological capacity of Liuqiu Island from 2010 to 2015 using the EF model, establishing an indicator to estimate the value of ecosystem service and eco-security. The empirical results include: (1) the overall value of ecosystem service on Liuqiu Island increased from US$3.75 million in 2010 to US$5.11 million in 2015; (2) the total per capita EF considerably increased from 0.5640 gha/person in 2010 to 4.0845 gha/person in 2015; and (3) the ecological footprint index increased from 0.30 in 2010 to 2.28 in 2015. These findings indicate that island tourism recreational zones gradually increased the pressure on its ecosystem, reduced the eco-security level, and severely damaged the environment, thereby threatening the function and structure of the entire ecosystem. The innovations and contributions of this study is integrating ecological footprint and ecosystem services valuation provide insights into sustainability of an island. The theoretical and practical implications identified in this study should contribute to reducing the gap between research and practice.

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The Establishment and Application of Environment Sustainability Evaluation Indicators for Ecotourism Environments

Cited by 20 publications

References 35 publications

Sustainability Assessment of Natural Capital Based on the 3D Ecological Footprint Model: A Case Study of the Shennongjia National Park Pilot

Sustainability Assessment of Natural Capital Based on the 3D Ecological Footprint Model: A Case Study of the Shennongjia National Park Pilot

Ecological Security Classification of Regionally Sustainable Utilization of Land Resources Based on SVM

Integrating Ecosystem Services and Eco-Security to Assess Sustainable Development in Liuqiu Island

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