In recent decades, the tourism industry has become one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The tourism industry忆s current contribution to global carbon emissions is 4%-6%, and it is estimated that carbon emissions from tourism will increase 1. 5 times from its current level by 2035. The emergence of low鄄carbon tourism represents a transformation in the traditional tourism industry. It is a new trend of sustainable tourism that is changing tourists忆 pattern of consumption and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents the results of a questionnaire survey conducted among tourists visiting Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, China regarding their cognition of and willingness to undertake low鄄 carbon tourism. We show the following: (1) The cognition level of low鄄carbon tourism was high (68.5%) and showed a significant positive correlation with tourists忆 education level, hotel rating, and the average number of trips annually. Some tourists stayed in high鄄rate hotels regardless of energy鄄extensive consumption to ensure the best quality of their tourism experience, even though they had the highest cognition level. Ninety鄄one percent of respondents answered that public
Wide Participation and cooperation among scientists, social economists, public and government are critical to efficient natural resource management. Environmental management authorities in China are now facing challenges of constructing a comprehensive and integrated framework for protecting environment, conserving natural resources and improving ecosystem function, with administrative boundaries as a barrier. In this paper, we use comparative analysis approach and satellite change detection analysis to study Lugu Lake watershed ecosystem, which is a trans鄄boundary lake lying at the border of Sichuan and Yunnan Province, south鄄west China. Four factors that may greatly influence Lugu Lake watershed ecosystem are selected and compared between Sichuan and Yunnan portion of our study area at five different scales: province, city, county, town and village. These four factors are environmental management approaches, natural environment, local society and economy. To quantitatively analyze and compare the structure and function difference of Lugu Lake watershed ecosystem between Sichuan and Yunnan portion, we build an index system based on key environmental elements, including land鄄cover, forest stand structure, the value of ecosystem service, normalized difference vegetation index ( NDVI) , and calculate their values in these tow portions of our study area. Driving force for Lugu Lake ecosystem function division is analyzed and countermeasures for trans鄄boundary watershed management are provided.Results showed that Lugu Lake watershed ecosystem was facing different degree of tourism pressure, agriculture pressure, public participation and environmental management approaches between Sichuan and Yunnan portion. Particularly, Lugu watershed ecosystem in Yunnan portion faces much more tourism pressure and public attention. The environmental
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