China: Biodiversity Conservation Plan. It identifies tropical reserves in Xishuangbanna Prefecture as having a high priority …Brings attention to recent environmental policy documents which have been released in China such as China’s Agenda 21 … which is a white paper outlining policies to achieve sustainable developing in China. Another important recent document is …

China contains a high degree of biodiversity and many unique species, but its rapid economic development threatens … occurring which could result in unsustainable ‘development’ occurring in China. These problems have been recognised both … worldwide and within China. For example, the World Bank has extended financial assistance to China through its Global …

Rapid growth has occurred in tourism to China since 1978 and although 1989 resulted in a large reduction in the number … of external visitors to China, resumed growth since then has established new records for levels of tourism arrivals in … China. In addition, a new attitude to the development of domestic tourism emerged in 1992. China has decided to increase the …

The State Council has adopted Agenda 21 for China and biodiversity conservation as one plank of this agenda for China …'s sustainable development. This paper offers a brief discussion of China's White Paper on Agenda 21 and examines as a case study the … problem of sustaining biological diversity in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan. This area is rated as one of …

Tourism is growing rapidly in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture located in southern Yunnan. Tourism is now … of tourism in Xishuangbanna Prefecture. Features of this tourism such as average length of stay of tourists in the … tourism development in Xishuangbanna State Nature Reserve and this ambitious plan is outlined and examined. Ecotourism …

There has been much discussion of sustainable tourism and there is in fact an international academic journal entitled … Sustainable Tourism. However, there appear to be few, if any, rigorous definitions of the concept of sustainable tourism. This is …. The above problem exists despite the fact that the concept of sustainable tourism is closely linked by many to definitions …

tourism) are linked to agriculture, within the specific context of environmentally sensitive regions of National parks. …

environmental costs of logging. - $0.67 million is the net present value of tourist payments, assuming a growth in tourism of 1 per …

spatial structure of the settlements were induced by the tourism opportunities offered by the beaches on the Tisza Lake. The … changes in nature cannot be ignored by men. Changes promoting tourism will only be sufficiently successful if we only …