碩士 / 國立中興大學 / 景觀與遊憩碩士學位學程 / 102 / The dramatic increase of carbon dioxide in the air, caused mainly by anthropogenic processes, leads/led the global carbon cycle to imbalance and results/resulted in climate change. Currently, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has pointed out that the Parties should enroll in the domestic CO2 reduction and adaptation. Coastal wetland systems are included in the most efficient natural carbon sinks on Earth, and they are protected and controlled under the RAMSAR Convention on Wetlands.
However, human activities and land use will affect the carbon budget in a wetland area. In addition, more and more tourists may visit the wetlands and lead to direct CO2 emissions, affecting the carbon balance of the natural wetlands. From the discussion above, we can know that large numbers of human activities will result in wetland carbon imbalances.
Therefore, this study focuses on Chiku wetlands in the west coast of Taiwan on an international level. The aims are to establish a CO2 emission assessment model, and to explore the measures of CO2 reduction and adaptation for tourist activities around the wetlands. Firstly, this research explored the carbon dioxide mission of land for building, traffic and industry in land use viewpoint by literature review and field survey. Secondly, a questionnaire survey was conducted with tourists focusing on transport, accommodation and activities.
The results show that the land for building emit 154,508 t of CO2 emissions annually; while the land for road and industrial emit 3,572 t and 27,155 t of CO2, respectively. Based on the above data, the CO2 emissions of Chiku land use should not be underestimated. In addition, according to the questionnaire survey, we should calculate with CO2 emission ca. 16.02 kg-CO2 /visit. This means annually 12,496 t CO2 emission for the tourism, based on the 780,000 tourists visiting the Chiku area on a yearly basis.
The results of this study show the impacts of land use and human activities on the wetland system quantitatively and are helpful for wetland conservation and low-carbon tourism toward sustainable development.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/102NCHU5358001 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Szu-chia Kao, 高偲嘉 |
| Contributors | 林子平 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 60 |
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