Estimating the Energy Carbon Footprint of Huangshan National Park

作者：Man Li, Jin He Zhang, Jing Chen, Jing Zhou, Nan Nan Wang · 发表于：Advanced materials research · 年份：2012 · DOI：10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.535-537.2214 · 被引用次数：8 · 研究领域：Environmental Impact and Sustainability、Vehicle emissions and performance、Energy, Environment, Economic Growth

Tourism is sensitive to global climate change and greenhouse gas emissions generated by the energy consumption restrict the sustainable development of tourism industry. Methods trying to make the tourism development of sustainability measurable are too confused to be of practical value. To overcome this obstacle, this paper built a Tourism Carbon Footprint Model based on energy consumption structure. With this TCF model, we analyzed carbon footprint of Huangshan between 2006 and 2009. We find that: (1) total carbon footprint of Huangshan increases from 2674.92 hm2 to 3456.76 hm2 at the annual rate of 7%; (2) energy consumption carbon footprint differs significantly in structure. The five kinds of energy carbon footprint, in the descending order, are the electricity, coal, diesel, gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas; (3) analysis of energy consumption carbon footprint shows that Huangshan is sustainable between 2006 and 2009.