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Framework of an Ecotourism Early Warning System: What can we Learn for Hainan, China?

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Early warning systems (EWSs) are important for risk management. This chapter develops a framework of an ecotourism EWS which includes hazard risk, carrying capacity of service facilities and tourism sites, and tourism development impact assessment, monitoring and warning. Tourism impact is an emerging research spot. In EWSs, negative tourism impacts should be emphasized, including environmental, economic, and social impacts. After the framework is constructed and analyzed, cases based on local characteristics are selected and the concentrated points for ecotourism early warning are analyzed.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to the support by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), and the project of Construction of an Early Warning Information Platform/Module based on Ecotourism Assessment and Management (EAM)—Its Application in the Building of Hainan International Tourism Island of China (2012DFA11270).

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  1. Faculty of Public Administration, China University of GeoSciences, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Li-qin Zhang & Jiang-feng Li

  2. Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Li-qin Zhang

  3. School of Information and Technology, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China

    Sheng-Quan Ma

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  2. School of Information Science and Technology, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, People's Republic of China

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  3. Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Zhang, Lq., Li, Jf., Ma, SQ. (2014). Framework of an Ecotourism Early Warning System: What can we Learn for Hainan, China?. In: Cao, BY., Ma, SQ., Cao, Hh. (eds) Ecosystem Assessment and Fuzzy Systems Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 254. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03449-2_3

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