A Study on the Evaluation Factors of Environmental Education Strategies for Cultural Heritage and Low Carbon Tourism

Abstract:

Recently, Taiwan government had tried to promote more new tourism styles for the cultural heritage conservation and sustainable community development, and it also showed the importance of environmental education to transmit the ideas of global warming and other significant environmental issues by using sustainable tourism activities. Therefore, a suitable environmental education strategy was viewed as necessary policy to achieve the goal, so that a complete evaluation model for that was very important to support the related strategies. Therefore, this study tried to introduce a concept of environmental education for low carbon tourism and the cultural heritage conservation by using literature review and Fuzzy Delphi method. It also tried to find the relative importance and weight to know the true key factors for the future evaluation model. The main finding showed that “the Environmental conservation training and interpretation” was the most important factor in this issue. Then, “Low carbon transportation”, “Environmental values and attitude”, “Environmental education course design”, “Energy saving” and “Promotion activities” also played the good roles.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1051)
• Pages: 632-640
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1051.632
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Kuei Yang Wu, Shih Chung Lu*, Yen Yu Wu
• Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Environmental Education, Fuzzy Delphi Method, Low Carbon Tourism

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