The Impacts of Ecoturism Action on Coastal Wetland Developing and Conservation－ The Case of QiguCoastal Wetland

• Main Authors: CHOU,YU-LIN, 卓玉嶺
• Other Authors: CHOU, SHIH-HSIUNG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46870767925008262825

碩士 === 長榮大學 === 土地管理與開發學系碩士班 === 95 === Abstract Because land resources are limited in Taiwan, it is indispensable to utilize coastal resources. However, over costal exploiture would give an impact on ecology. They also have not considering the relevance of resource characteristics of coastal wetland and development of ecoturism,They fore, the objective of this research is to study the impact of ecoturism on coastal wetland based on the conservation of ecological environment, local economic development, and society cultural quality. The difference of the opinion between experts and local habitants is investigated to provide the reference for the government and local habitants so as to make the development policy by which the substantial development of the Qigu coastal wetland as a sustainable developed coastal area. The potential impact of ecoturism resort can be categorized into three aspects: (1) Aspect in substantial ecological environment: four indexes - natural resources, wild animal and plant habitat, land utilization, and environmental quality as well as 17 impact factors, (2) Aspect in economy: two indexes - habitant income and local industry development as well as 5 impact factors, (3) Aspect in social culture: four indexes – local culture, population, environmental education, and life style as well as 10 impact factors. Thus, there are 10 indexes and 32 impact factors. This research chooses the Qigu costal wetland of the Yunlin-Chiayi national landscapes as the studied area. Two surveys from experts and local habitants were performed to study the above-mentioned impact. Then, the statistical analysis was conducted, including descriptive statistical analysis, confidence test, and t-test. The results are outlined as follows: 1. Aspect in substantial ecological environment: the surveys from experts and local habitants both indicate that natural resources (landscapes) and land utilization (resort facility) have the positive impact. Local habitants think land utilization (public facility construction and housing construction) have a positive impact while experts do not think. The other environmental quality（garbage、make noise、air quality and teaffic transport） 4 impact factors are all negative. 2. Aspect in economy: the surveys from experts and local habitants both indicate that habitant two indexes - income and local industry development as well as 5 impact factors are positive. The impact extent was studied by the t-test analysis, which shows that the difference exists but is not obvious because the obvious level is less than 0.05 as t is larger than the lower limit of 95% confidence level. 3. Aspect in social culture: the surveys from experts and local habitants both indicate that four indexes – local culture, population, environmental education, and life style as well as 10 impact factors are positive. The impact extent was studied by the t-test analysis, which shows that the difference exists but is not obvious because the obvious level is less than 0.05 as t is larger than the lower limit of 95% confidence level. The future research can be conducted first from understanding the tourists’ behavior with the regulations of coastal wetland environment monitoring established and executed by the related institutes. By doing so, the local residents can increase the understanding of their surrounding ecological environmental resources, thereby they can operate the tourism and other activities so as to upgrade the development of the local industries’ economy. Also, by combining the above-mentioned various factors to recognize the substantial impacts on ecological environment, the responsible institutes can do numerical comparisons for ecological environment monitoring and promote the environmental education or use it as a reference for the environmental conservation policy. Key words: Coastal Wetland, Ecological Environment, Ecoturism