Tourism Impact Assessment on Coastal Water Environment - A Case Study on HangZhou Bay North Shore in Shanghai

Abstract:

The study on tourism environment impact on coastal area has been a hot spot for coastal ecological environment research in our country. Based on grey recognition mode, this Paper analyzes the water environment quality of Shanghai Hangzhou Bay north shore coastal artificial bathing place in the spatial-temporal perspectives and researches the impacts of coastal tourism activities on water environment. The research results reveal that: (1) Coastal artificial bathing place is beneficial for protecting and improving coastal water environmental quality and different management modes on coastal artificial bathing place present different temporal features on protection of coastal water body; (2) In tourist peak season, environmental management improves the surrounding water environmental quality of artificial bathing place; (3) In the same coastal artificial bathing place, with different water body purification technologies and different influence mechanism, the tourism activities shows different levels of impact on water environment.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 518-523)
• Pages: 5203-5208
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.518-523.5203
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Shi Dong Liu, Jun Gao, Dong Qian Xue
• Keywords: Coastal Water Environment, Grey Relational Recognition Model, Shanghai Hangzhou Bay North Shore, Tourism Impact Assessment

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