Ecological Security Research of the Northern Slope of Qinling Mountains under the Impact of Tourism Activities

Abstract:

The ecological security of the piedmont area has been a focus in the research of mountain ecosystem. However, with the development of the urbanization, the research of mountain ecological security under the impact of human activities, especially in the city which near the mountain, the research of protection and development of piedmont area seems not updated enough. Therefore, this paper selected Northern slope of Qinling Mountains in Xi’an, and made tourism activities the major driving factor for ecological security of tourism environment in piedmont area, thus establishing an ecological security evaluation system of piedmont tourism environment, based on DPSIR Model. The result showed that tourism development would enhance the ecological security level of regional tourism environment, and tourism activities would exert positive impact on regional tourism environment. The conclusions include: (1) Before 2007, the tourist environment of Huxian had been in an unsafe state, but in 2013, the ecological security level was largely raised; (2)The tourism ecological security in Chang’an is higher than that in Huxian District, and the ecological security level had already got into the safe state level

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 955-959)
• Pages: 1634-1639
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.955-959.1634
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Shi Dong Liu, Jun Gao*, Wei Tao Pan
• Keywords: DPSIR Model, Impact of Tourism Activities, Northern Slope of Qinling Mountains, Piedmont Area, Tourism Ecological Security

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