Open AccessAnalysis on Ecological Footprint of Agricultural Heritage Sites under Tourism Utilization: A Case Study of Nanfeng County
Author(s) -
Dongjun Chen,
H. Xie,
Jing Zhang,
Luyuan Chen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/546/3/032032
Subject(s) - tourism , sustainable development , agriculture , resource (disambiguation) , china , ecological footprint , cultural heritage , environmental resource management , geography , business , environmental planning , environmental protection , ecology , environmental science , archaeology , computer science , computer network , biology
Tourism is an important way to achieve dynamic protection and adaptive management for agricultural heritage sites. The balanced relationship between tourism development and protection of agricultural heritage sites is the key to the sustainable development of its tourism industry. This paper uses Ecological Footprint Model (EF) to evaluate the ecological state of a specific agricultural heritage site, namely Nanfeng County in Jiangxi Province, China. The result indicates that Nanfeng County showed a safe ecological state under tourism utilization in 2015. It inspires how to realize sustainable tourism of agricultural heritage sites: 1) ecological environment is the guarantee of sustainable tourism development; 2) develop tourism adaptively based on actual resource characteristic; 3) social economy and tourism development should promote mutually. This study provides a scientific case for ecology security evaluation and sustainable tourism development of Nanfeng County.