Evaluating eco-sustainability and its spatial variability in tourism areas: A case study in Lijiang County, China

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-126

  Jiang, Yiyi ^a  

^a China Tourism Academy   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological footprint; Spatial variability; Tourism; Tourism ecological footprint

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HETEROGENEITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABILITY; THRESHOLD; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

CHINA; LIJIANG; YUNNAN;

EID: 77951582109     PISSN: 13504509     EISSN: 17452627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504500902808628     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Body-Bovy M, Lawson F. 2004. Tourism & recreation handbook of planning and design. Beijing: China Architecture Industry Press.
2. Briassoulis H. 2001. Sustainable development and its indicators: through a glass darkly. J Environ Plann Manage. 44(3):409-427.
3. Budeanu A. 2005. Impacts and responsibilities for sustainable tourism: a tour operator's perspective. J Cleaner Prod. 13:89-97.
4. Chen ZX, Wang YL, Liu ZW, Niu YF. 2001. Study of regional sustainable tourism. Resour Environ Yangtze Basin. 10(2):144-151. (in Chinese)
5. Gössling S, Hansson CB, Horstmeier O, Saggel S. 2002. Ecological footprint analysis as a tool to assess tourism sustainability. Ecol Econ. 43:199-211.
6. Hong YS, He SQ. 2001. Water environment survey and study on Lijiang. Yunnan Environ Sci. 20(S1):143-145. (in Chinese)
7. Huang CX, Chen XP 2003. The exploration strategy on glacial geological resources for tourism. Sixiang Zhanxian. 29(2):45-49. (in Chinese)
8. Hunter C. 2002. Sustainable tourism and the tourist ecological footprint. Environ Dev Sustainability. 4:7-20.
9. Ko TG. 2005. Development of a tourism sustainability assessment procedure: a conceptual approach. Tourism Manage. 26:431-445.
10. Liu JM, Yang XJ. 1999. Research on sustainable tourism development and planning in ecotourism destinations. J Nat Resour. 14(1):79-83. (in Chinese)
11. Liu ZW, Wang YL, Peng J, Wang XD. 2002. Sustainable tourism development of regional culture landscape from landscape ecology. Acta Sci Nat Univ Pekinensis. 38(6):801-808. (in Chinese)
12. Luo HS, Yang SY 2005. The reciprocity between a system of tourism geological resources and a system of human-land relationships. Yunnan Geogr Environ Res. 17(5):40-46. (in Chinese)
13. Monfreda C, Wackernagel M, Deumling D. 2004. Establishing national natural capital accounts based on detailed ecological footprint and biological capacity assessments. Land Use Policy. 21(3):231-246.
14. Niu YF. 1999. Sustainable tourism, ecotourism and implementation. Geogr Res. 18(2):179-184. (in Chinese)
15. Rees WE, Wackernagel M. 1996. Urban ecological footprints: why cites cannot be sustainable and why they are a key to sustainability. Environ Impact Assess Rev. 16:223-248.
16. Saveriades A. 2000. Establishing the social tourism carrying capacity for the tourist resorts of the east coast of the Republic of Cyprus. Tourism Manage. 21:147-156.
17. Sheng-Hshiung T, Yu-Chiang L, Jo-Hui L. 2006. Evaluating ecotourism sustainability from the integrated perspective of resource, community and tourism. Tourism Manage. 27:640-653.
18. Simón FJG, Narangajavana Y, Marqués DP. 2004. Carrying capacity in the tourism industry: a case study of Hengistbury Head. Tourism Manage. 25:275-283.
19. Sun MY, Wang YF. 2005. Toutism environment carrying capacity and sustainable tourism development. Areal Res Dev. 24(2):70-73. (in Chinese)
20. Twining-Ward L, Butler R. 2002. Implementing STD on Small Island: development and use of sustainable tourism development indicators in Samoa. J Sustainable Tourism. 10(5):363-387.
21. Wackernagel M, Onisto L, Bello P, Linares AC, Falfan ISL, Garcia JM, Guerrero AIS, Guerrero MGS. 1999. National natural capital accounting with the ecological footprint concept. Ecol Econ. 29:375-390. (Pubitemid 29303097)
22. Wackernagel M, Rees WE. 1996. Our ecological footprint: reducing human impact on the earth. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers.
23. Wackernagel M, Schulz NB, Deumling D, Linares AC, Jenkins M, Kapos V, Monfreda C, Loh J, Myers N, Norgaard R, et al. 2002. Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 99(14): 9266-9271.
24. Wang LJ. 2001. On the indicator system of sustainable development of tourism and evaluation method. Tourism Trib. 16(1):67-70. (in Chinese)
25. Wang YL, Yang XJ. 1999. A study of sustainable development and tourism planning in a scenic region. Resour Sci. 21(1):37-43. (in Chinese)
26. Wen CH, Yang GH, Wang HX. 2002. Integrated indicator system of eco-tourism environment load capacity in nature reserves. Agro-Environ Prot. 21(4):365-368. (in Chinese)
27. World Commission on Environment and Development. 1987. Our common future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
28. Yang GH, Li P. 2005. Touristic ecological footprint: a new yardstick to assess sustainability of tourism. Acta Ecol Sin. 25(6):1475-1480. (in Chinese)
29. Zhang JH, Zhang J. 2004. Tourism ecological footprint model and analysis of Huangshan City in 2002. Acta Geogr Sin. 59(5):763-771. (in Chinese)
30. Zou TQ, Liu J. 2003. The sustainable tourism strategies in Shidu scenic spot of Fangshan District of Beijing. J Guilin Inst Tourism. 14(5):32-37. (in Chinese)