Li Wenjun, Zhang Qian, Liu Chunyan, Xue Qifu
College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Room 310, Laodixuelou Building, Beijing 100871, PR China.
Environ Manage. 2006 Oct;38(4):572-9. doi: 10.1007/s00267-004-0299-z.
Tourism development may result in negative impacts on natural resources owing to overuse and mismanagement. However, tourism may also play positive roles in natural resource conservation, which has rarely been verified in practice, although some researchers have demonstrated this in theory. In this article, taking the Jiuzhaigou Biosphere Reserve as a case study area, we conducted an analysis for the environmental impacts from tourism development based on social survey and interpretation of remote sensing images. The results show that the natural environment was not degraded and some indicators are even improving because all the residents have participated in tourism and given up farming and hunting. It is concluded that it is possible to use tourism as a way to balance natural resource conservation and economic development under the preconditions of making effective policies to encourage and help local people participate in tourism business and to benefit from it.
旅游业发展可能因过度使用和管理不善而对自然资源产生负面影响。然而，旅游业也可能在自然资源保护中发挥积极作用，尽管一些研究人员在理论上已证明这一点，但在实践中却鲜有验证。在本文中，我们以九寨沟生物圈保护区为案例研究区域，基于社会调查和遥感影像解读，对旅游业发展所产生的环境影响进行了分析。结果表明，由于所有居民都参与了旅游业并放弃了农耕和狩猎，自然环境并未退化，一些指标甚至还在改善。得出的结论是，在制定有效政策鼓励和帮助当地居民参与旅游业务并从中受益的前提下，将旅游业作为平衡自然资源保护和经济发展的一种方式是可行的。
